TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 21
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
1837 Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida.
1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
1872 The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted.
1940 Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published
1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
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.
1967 The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
1971 Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1983 The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.
1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork’s Supreme Ct nomination
1991 Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1994 North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections.
2003 The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
2003 North Korea rejected U.S. President George W. Bush’s offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
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