This Day in History October 21: Notable Historical Events on October 21
This Day in History October 21st. The most notable events that took place on October 21st range from political historical events to cultural and social events.
Domestic events taking place on October 21
From October 21 to October 24, 1922:Nguyen Ai Quoc attended the Second Congress of the French Communist Party and at this forum, criticized the Party for not paying due attention to the colonial issue, proposed and was approved by the Congress an appeal to "Indigenous people in the colonies".
October 21, 1946:Traditional Day of Vietnam Railway Industry. According to the history of Vietnam Railway, since the French colonialists laid the first meters of rail in Vietnam, the railway has been formed and developed for more than 130 years.
October 21, 1956:General Nguyen Son passed away in Hanoi. His real name was Vu Nguyen Bac, born in 1908 in Kieu Ki village, Gia Lam district - Hanoi. In 1945, when he returned to Vietnam, he was assigned the tasks of Chairman of the Southern Resistance Committee, Director of the Military Training Department - Ministry of National Defense (January 1947), and Commander and Political Commissar of Inter-zone V and Inter-zone IV. In these places, he made great contributions to building regular fighting forces and self-defense forces for the early years of the resistance war.
October 21, 1995:The National Assembly issued a Resolution to establish the Ministry of Industry on the basis of merging three Ministries: Heavy Industry, Energy, and Light Industry.
October 21, 1996:Writer Vo Huy Tam passed away. Writer Vo Huy Tam was born in 1926 in Nam Dinh province. After the August Revolution, he worked as a union official, then a Party official in Bac Giang. At the end of 1948, he was sent to build a movement in the Hon Gai mining area, which was then occupied by French colonialists. He worked as a worker and participated in leading workers in the struggle against colonialists and mine owners.
International events taking place on October 21
October 21, 1600:Tokugawa Ieyasu won the Battle of Sekigahara, which is considered the beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
October 21, 1790:Birthday of French romantic poet, diplomat and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. Alphonse de Lamartine's emotional poetry has deeply influenced many generations of French poets and even poets in the Vietnamese New Poetry movement (1930-1945).
October 21, 1805:The British army defeated the Franco-Spanish alliance at the Battle of Trafalgar.
October 21, 1824:Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement, now one of the most popular cements in the world.
October 21, 1833:Birthday of Swedish scientist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. In 1867, he invented dynamite, the first effective and easy-to-use explosive, which could be used to open tunnels through mountains.
October 21, 1867:Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is first published.
October 21, 1914:Birthday of famous mathematician, Martin Gardner. “Martin turned thousands of children into mathematicians and thousands of mathematicians into children”. Ronald Graham, famous mathematician at the University of California at San Diego, assessed Martin Gardner like that.
October 21, 1944:World War II: The first kamikaze attack is carried out, targeting the battleship HMAS Australia off the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
October 21, 1983:The 17th International Congress of Weights and Measures redefined the length of a meter as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
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