Daily Calendar – October 21

The 294th day of the year; 71 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Venerable Pelagia of Antioch (457); Venerable Taisia ​​(4th century); Saint Pelagia the Virgin (303).

Born:

1833 – Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish inventor, industrialist, and founder of the prizes that bear his name.

1868 – Alexandre Shatilov, a renowned ophthalmologist and professor; died in 1949.

1904 – Giorgi Tsereteli, a prominent Orientalist and academician; died in 1973.

1919 – Josef Kadlec, a Czech writer.

1945 – Nikita Mikhalkov, a Russian actor and film director.

1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

Died:

1602 – David I, King of Kakheti from 1601 to 1602.

1805 – Horatio Nelson, commander in the British Navy.

1845 – Nikoloz Baratashvili, a prominent poet. 1969 – Jack Kerouac, American writer.

1984 – François Truffaut, French film director and actor.

1992 – Jim Garrison, American lawyer and investigator into the assassination of President Kennedy.

Events:

2137 BC – A total solar eclipse was recorded in China for the first time.

1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered the American continent.

1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovered the strait between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which was later named after him.

1879 – American inventor Thomas Edison tested his first light bulb.

1923 – The first planetarium opened at a museum in Munich, Germany.

1945 – Women in France were granted the right to vote for the first time.

Commemorative Days:

Great Britain – Trafalgar Day.

Laos – Full Moon Day.