October 21 - The Day in History

October 21 : General Interest 1959: Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City On this day in 1959, on New York City's Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake... read more American Revolution 1779 : Henry Laurens named minister to Holland http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-laurens-named-minister-to-holland Automotive 1929 : Henry Ford dedicates the Thomas Edison Institute http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-ford-dedicates-the-thomas-edison-institute Civil War 1861 : Yankees suffer a defeat at the Battle of Ball's Bluff http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-balls-bluff Cold War 1967 : Thousands protest the war in Vietnam http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thousands-protest-the-war-in-vietnam Crime 1910 : A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-bomb-explodes-in-the-los-angeles-times-building Disaster 1966 : Mudslide buries school in Wales http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mudslide-buries-school-in-wales General Interest 1979 : USS Constitution launched http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uss-iconstitutioni-launched 1805 : Battle of Trafalgar http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-trafalgar 1959 : Von Braun moves to NASA http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/von-braun-moves-to-nasa Hollywood 1988 : Mystic Pizza, with Julia Roberts, opens http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mystic-pizza-with-julia-roberts-opens Literary 1772 : Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/samuel-taylor-coleridge-is-born Music 1917 : Dizzy Gillespie is born http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dizzy-gillespie-is-born Old West 1867 : Plains Indians sign key provisions of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in Kansas http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/plains-indians-sign-key-provisions-of-the-medicine-lodge-treaty-in-kansas Presidential 1921 : Harding publicly condemns lynching http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/harding-publicly-condemns-lynching Sports 1975 : Fisk homers off foul pole http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fisk-homers-off-foul-pole Vietnam War 1967 : 100,000 people march on the Pentagon http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/100000-people-march-on-the-pentagon World War I 1918 : Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-ceases-unrestricted-submarine-warfare World War II 1941 : Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-massacre-men-women-and-children-in-yugoslavia

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