October 21 - This 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
1797 : 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