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Day Of The Week: October 21
October 21, 2025 is the 294th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 71 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 21
- 1520 –João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of “Islands of the 11,000 Virgins”.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain’s navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
- 1854 –Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
- 1892 –Opening ceremonies for the World’s Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
- 1965 –Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
- 1971 –A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1973 –Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- 1994 –North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
- 2003 –Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
Who were born on October 21?
- 1712 –Sir James Denham-Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
- 1757 –Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
- 1772 –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
- 1790 –Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
- 1914 –Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer (d. 2010)
- 1957 –Steve Lukather, American musician
- 1965 –Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer
- 1974 –Costel Busuioc, Romanian tenor
- 1984 –Tom Brandstater, American football player
- 1986 –Natalee Holloway, American missing person (missing since 2005)
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