October 21: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Bahá'í Faith, 2017)
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- 1520 – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon were visited by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes near Canada, who named them "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson (pictured) signalled "England expects that every man will do his duty" to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.
- 1867 – The first of the Medicine Lodge Treaties was signed between the United States and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
- 1966 – A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- 1994 – North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit North Korea's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two.
Sims Reeves (b. 1821) · Isabelle Eberhardt (d. 1904) · Virginia Zeani (b. 1925)
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