On This Day:
Tuesday October 21, 2014 This is the 294th day of the year, with 71 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: tribes At the time of European contact, there were perhaps as many as 240 different tribal entities in North America.
Holidays Feast day of St. Hilarion, St. Fintan or Munnu of Taghmon, St. Condedus, St. Tuda, St. John of Bridlington, and St. Malchus.
Marshall Islands: Compact Day.
Somalia Democratic Republic: National Day.
Taiwan: Overseas Chinese Day.
Events 1797 - U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, nicknamed "Old Ironsides," was launched in Boston's harbor. It was built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.
1805 - British fleet commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, but Nelson was killed.
1879 - Thomas A. Edison invented the first working electric (incandescent) light, in his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory.
1917 - The first American troops saw action in France during World War I. The U.S. Army's First Division was assigned to Allied trenches in the Luneville sector near Nancy, France.
1950 - Tibet was occupied by Chinese forces.
1959 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York opened; it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1960 - The fourth and final debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate, and Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic candidate, was televised.
1967 - More than 50,000 Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
1967 - Egyptian missiles sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing more than 40.
1971 - President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1988 - A federal grand jury in New York indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda Marcos, on charges of fraud and racketeering.
2003 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush ordered a feeding tube reinserted into Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle.
Births 1760 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker.
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet.
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist (invented dynamite), engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (founded the Nobel Prizes).
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American Grammy Award-winning musician and creator of be-bop.
1928 - Whitey Ford, American baseball Hall-of-Famer.
1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter and novelist, best known for her role as Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Deaths 1805 - Horatio Nelson, an English admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars.
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American poet, novelist, and leader of the Beat movement.
1992 - Bob Todd, English comedy actor, primarily known for being a sidekick of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan.
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