On This Day in History — October 21

• 2005 — Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
• 1994 — North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
• 1994 — In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
• 1987 — Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
• 1986 — In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• 1983 — The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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Notable Births on October 21

• 1995 — Cameron Burgess, Scottish-Australian footballer
• 1995 — Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
• 1992 — Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player
• 1991 — Tom Eastman, English footballer
• 1991 — Geoffry Hairemans, Belgian footballer
• 1991 — Vadaine Oliver, English footballer

Notable Deaths on October 21

• 2015 — France Bučar, Slovenian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Marty Ingels, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2015 — Norman W. Moore, English conservationist and author (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Sheldon Wolin, American philosopher, theorist, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2014 — Ben Bradlee, American journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 — Nelson Bunker Hunt, American businessman (b. 1926)

Sports on October 21

• NHL: Winnipeg Jets @ St. Louis Blues — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Boston Bruins @ Dallas Stars — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• MLB: Cleveland Guardians @ Tampa Bay Rays — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Minnesota Wild @ Edmonton Oilers — 01:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Oklahoma City Thunder @ San Antonio Spurs — 01:30 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Detroit Red Wings @ Seattle Kraken — 01:40 UTC Scheduled

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Religious Observances on October 22

• Hindu: Dussehra

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On This Day in History — October 22

• 2014 — Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
• 2013 — The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
• 2008 — India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
• 2007 — Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
• 2006 — A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
• 2005 — Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

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Notable Births on October 22

• 1996 — B.I, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1995 — Saidy Janko, Swiss footballer
• 1992 — Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
• 1992 — 21 Savage, American hip-hop artist
• 1989 — Marco Restrepo, American musician
• 1989 — Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player

Notable Deaths on October 22

• 2017 — George Young, British-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1946)
• 2017 — Paul Weitz, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 2016 — Steve Dillon, British comic book artist (b. 1962)
• 2015 — Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Çetin Altan, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 — Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1926)

Sports on October 22

• College Football: New Mexico State Aggies @ Sam Houston Bearkats — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• WNBA: Golden State Valkyries @ Atlanta Dream — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Utah Jazz @ Memphis Grizzlies — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Indiana Pacers @ New Orleans Pelicans — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Dallas Mavericks @ Houston Rockets — 00:30 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Golden State Warriors @ Los Angeles Lakers — 02:00 UTC Scheduled

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