October 21 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 21
In the headlines today:

2000	Actor Michael Landes and actress Wendy Benson are married.
1995	Actress Meredith Baxter marries actor Michael Blodgett.
1980	Actor Dustin Hoffman marries attorney Lisa Gottsegen.
1971	US president Richard Nixon (left) nominates Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court. (photo credit: NARA)
1969	Jack Kerouac, beat generation novelist, dies.
1967	A Vietnam war protest march draws tens of thousands to Washington, DC.
1966	A mountian of waste coal collapses on a school and residential area in south Wales, killing 140 people, many of them children.
1962	The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.
1960	The final televised debate takes place between presidential hopefuls senator John F. Kennedy and US vice president Richard Nixon. (photo credit: NARA)
1959	The Guggenheim Museum is dedicated in New York City.
1948	Author Robert A. Heinlein marries Virginia Gerstenfeld.
1945	France extends the right to vote to women.
1944	US troops capture the city of Aachen, Germany, during WWII.
1879	Thomas Edison invents the electric light.
1872	Germany gives the San Juan Islands to the US.