October 21
1797 - The navy frigate U.S.S. Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," was launched in Boston Harbor.
1805 - A British fleet commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson was killed in the battle.
1837 - Seminole chief Osceola was captured as he carried a white flag of truce during the Second Seminole War.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented a workable incandescent electric lamp at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1917 - American soldiers saw their first action in World War I on the front lines in France.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time.
1959 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York City.
1966 - 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.
1967 - Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
1971 - President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on charges of fraud and racketeering.
2001 - Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.
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.
2011 - President Barack Obama declared that America’s long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq would be over by the end of 2011 and that all U.S. troops “will definitely be home for the holidays.”
2012 - Former senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, 90, died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden announced he would not be a candidate in the 2016 White House campaign, solidifying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s status as the Democratic front-runner.
2016 - Cyberattacks on server farms of a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted access to major websites and online services including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal across the United States.
2020 - Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, told CNN that he had voted in the Nov. 3 election, but not for Donald Trump.
2020 - The Justice Department said drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts said had helped touch off an opioid epidemic, would plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion.
2020 - At least 10 bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where investigators were searching for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Birthdays
28 - Kane Brown (country singer)
28 - Louriza Tronco (actress)
33 - Glenn Powell (actor)
33 - Blanca Suarez (actress)
38 - Aaron Tveit (actor)
38 - Charlotte Sullivan (actress)
38 - Amber Rose (model)
39 - Matt Dallas (actor)
39 - Mona Lisa Biswas (actress)
41 - Kim Kardashian (reality star)
43 - Michael McMillian (actor)
43 - Will Estes (actor)
44 - Matthew Ramsey (country singer)
45 - Jeremy Miller (actor)
62 - Ken Watanabe (actor)
64 - Julian Cope (singer)
72 - LaTanya Richardson Jackson (actress)
72 - Benjamin Netanyahu (former Israeli prime minister)
73 - Dick Christie (actor)
76 - Everett McGill (actor)
79 - Judy Sheindlin (TV personality)
79 - Elvin Bishop (singer)
97 - Joyce Randolph (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 21
1893 - Nebraska opens the season with a 28-0 win over Doane.
1899 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 11-0.
1905 - Michigan defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1911 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 21-3.
1916 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 17-7.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 48-0.
1933 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 9-0.
1939 - #16 Nebraska defeats #19 Baylor 20-0.
1944 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Penn State 19-0.
1956 - Billy Howton (Green Bay Packers) caught seven passes for 257 yards and two touchdowns against the Los Angeles Rams. The final score was 42-17.
1961 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 14-6.
1966 - Congress approved the merger of the AFL and NFL.
1967 - #4 Colorado defeats Nebraska 21-16.
1972 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 56-0.
1973 - Fred Dryer (Los Angeles Rams) became the first NFL player to record two safeties in a single game. The Rams defeated the Green Bay Packers 24-7.
1973 - The Oakland Athletics defeat the New York Mets in seven games to win the World Series.
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.
1976 - The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
1976 - The New York Knicks retire Willis Reed's #19.
1978 - #5 Nebraska defeats Colorado 52-14.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Kansas City Royals in six games to win their first World Series in the franchise's 98-year history.
1984 - Steve Cox (Cleveland Browns) kicked a 60-yard field goal against the Cincinnati Bengals. It was the second longest field goal in NFL history. The Browns lost to the Cincinnati Bengals 12-9.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 48-23.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats #8 Kansas State 49-25.
1997 - Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins) became the fifth defenseman in NHL history to play in 1,300 regular-season games.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined; the Yankees defeated the San Diego Padres in four games to win the World Series.
2000 - The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets 4-3 in 12 innings. It was the longest World Series game at 4 hours and 51 minutes.
2000 - Nebraska defeats Baylor 59-0.
2004 - The CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) ruled that Paul Hamm could keep his Olympic gold medal. They decided that Hamm was the rightful champion in the men's all-around gymnastics competition at the Athens Games. South Korea had challenged the medal.
2006 - #5 Texas defeats #17 Nebraska 22-20.
2007 - Tennessee kicker Rob Bironas sets NFL record for most points scored in a game (no touchdowns) with 26 in the Titans 38-36 win vs. the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium.
1797 - The navy frigate U.S.S. Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," was launched in Boston Harbor.
1805 - A British fleet commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson was killed in the battle.
1837 - Seminole chief Osceola was captured as he carried a white flag of truce during the Second Seminole War.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented a workable incandescent electric lamp at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1917 - American soldiers saw their first action in World War I on the front lines in France.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time.
1959 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York City.
1966 - 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.
1967 - Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
1971 - President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on charges of fraud and racketeering.
2001 - Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.
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.
2011 - President Barack Obama declared that America’s long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq would be over by the end of 2011 and that all U.S. troops “will definitely be home for the holidays.”
2012 - Former senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, 90, died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden announced he would not be a candidate in the 2016 White House campaign, solidifying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s status as the Democratic front-runner.
2016 - Cyberattacks on server farms of a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted access to major websites and online services including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal across the United States.
2020 - Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, told CNN that he had voted in the Nov. 3 election, but not for Donald Trump.
2020 - The Justice Department said drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts said had helped touch off an opioid epidemic, would plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion.
2020 - At least 10 bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where investigators were searching for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Birthdays
28 - Kane Brown (country singer)
28 - Louriza Tronco (actress)
33 - Glenn Powell (actor)
33 - Blanca Suarez (actress)
38 - Aaron Tveit (actor)
38 - Charlotte Sullivan (actress)
38 - Amber Rose (model)
39 - Matt Dallas (actor)
39 - Mona Lisa Biswas (actress)
41 - Kim Kardashian (reality star)
43 - Michael McMillian (actor)
43 - Will Estes (actor)
44 - Matthew Ramsey (country singer)
45 - Jeremy Miller (actor)
62 - Ken Watanabe (actor)
64 - Julian Cope (singer)
72 - LaTanya Richardson Jackson (actress)
72 - Benjamin Netanyahu (former Israeli prime minister)
73 - Dick Christie (actor)
76 - Everett McGill (actor)
79 - Judy Sheindlin (TV personality)
79 - Elvin Bishop (singer)
97 - Joyce Randolph (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 21
1893 - Nebraska opens the season with a 28-0 win over Doane.
1899 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 11-0.
1905 - Michigan defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1911 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 21-3.
1916 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 17-7.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 48-0.
1933 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 9-0.
1939 - #16 Nebraska defeats #19 Baylor 20-0.
1944 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Penn State 19-0.
1956 - Billy Howton (Green Bay Packers) caught seven passes for 257 yards and two touchdowns against the Los Angeles Rams. The final score was 42-17.
1961 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 14-6.
1966 - Congress approved the merger of the AFL and NFL.
1967 - #4 Colorado defeats Nebraska 21-16.
1972 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 56-0.
1973 - Fred Dryer (Los Angeles Rams) became the first NFL player to record two safeties in a single game. The Rams defeated the Green Bay Packers 24-7.
1973 - The Oakland Athletics defeat the New York Mets in seven games to win the World Series.
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.
1976 - The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
1976 - The New York Knicks retire Willis Reed's #19.
1978 - #5 Nebraska defeats Colorado 52-14.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Kansas City Royals in six games to win their first World Series in the franchise's 98-year history.
1984 - Steve Cox (Cleveland Browns) kicked a 60-yard field goal against the Cincinnati Bengals. It was the second longest field goal in NFL history. The Browns lost to the Cincinnati Bengals 12-9.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 48-23.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats #8 Kansas State 49-25.
1997 - Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins) became the fifth defenseman in NHL history to play in 1,300 regular-season games.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined; the Yankees defeated the San Diego Padres in four games to win the World Series.
2000 - The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets 4-3 in 12 innings. It was the longest World Series game at 4 hours and 51 minutes.
2000 - Nebraska defeats Baylor 59-0.
2004 - The CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) ruled that Paul Hamm could keep his Olympic gold medal. They decided that Hamm was the rightful champion in the men's all-around gymnastics competition at the Athens Games. South Korea had challenged the medal.
2006 - #5 Texas defeats #17 Nebraska 22-20.
2007 - Tennessee kicker Rob Bironas sets NFL record for most points scored in a game (no touchdowns) with 26 in the Titans 38-36 win vs. the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium.
