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Events

• 1512 (514 years ago) Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
• 1879 (147 years ago) Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and boys takes place.
• 1978 (48 years ago) Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
• 1989 (37 years ago) In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa.
• 2011 (15 years ago) Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.
• 2019 (7 years ago) In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Births

• 1772 (254 years ago) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1834)
• 1790 (236 years ago) Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State (died 1869)
• 1833 (193 years ago) Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Ursula K. Le Guin, American author and critic (died 2018)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli captain and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
• 1956 (70 years ago) Carrie Fisher, American actress and screenwriter (died 2016)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Kim Kardashian, American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite
• 1981 (45 years ago) Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer

Deaths

• 1422 (604 years ago) Charles VI of France,
• 1805 (221 years ago) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (born 1758)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (born 1862)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (born 1922)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (born 1895)
• 1984 (42 years ago) François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1916)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1937)

All 417 events, births and deaths of October 21