Events that happened today in history, October 21st!

Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 21st, in history!

1096	Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders.
1529	The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther.
1600	Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan’s most powerful warlord.
1790	The Tricolor is chosen as the official flag of France.
1797	The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.
1805	Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally wounded in the battle, but lives long enough to see victory.
1837	Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida.
1861	The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations.
1867	Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms.
1872	The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted.
1879	After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight.
1904	Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising.
1917	The first U.S. troops enter the front lines at Sommerviller under French command.
1939	As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London.
1940	Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1942	Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings.
1950	North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung.
1959	The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan.
1961	Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400.
1967	The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
1971	President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1975	Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hit a ball that struck the left field foul pole in Boston’s Fenway Park for a home run, giving the Red Sox a 7-6 victory in 12 innings over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the World Series.
1983	The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.
1988	Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on charges of fraud and racketeering.
2002	A car packed with explosives blew up next to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour; 14 people were killed in addition to two suicide attackers.
2003	Invoking a hastily-passed law, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a feeding tube reinserted into Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll
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Events that happened today in history, October 21st!