Daily Calendar for Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Born
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) –
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel (inventor) –
- Dizzy Gillespie (musician) –
- Edward "Whitey" Ford (baseball player) –
- Ursula K. Le Guin (author) –
- Manfred Mann (musician) –
- Dr. Ronald McNair (astronaut) –
- Carrie Fisher (actress) –
- Douglas G. Hurley (astronaut) –
Died
- Lord Nelson (British admiral) –
- Jack Kerouac (poet) –
- Fred Berry (actor) –
Events
- U.S.S. Constitution launched, Boston, Massachusetts –
- Lord Horatio Nelson of Great Britain and his men destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar –
- Thomas Edison successfully tested for the first time a carbon-filament incandescent light bulb –
- Columbia ran an advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post for the first two-sided record –
- Margaret Owen set a typing speed record on a manual typewriter of 170 words per minute –
- The Guggenheim Museum of Art, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City –
- Trimline phone was first placed in service, in Michigan –
- Movie My Fair Lady premiered –
- Native American saint Kateri Tekakwitha canonized –
Weather
- The temperature in Boston, Massachusetts, was 80 degrees F –
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