📜 This Day in History

October 21

• 1096First Crusade: At the Battle of Civetot, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
• 1854Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
• 1910HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1944World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
• 1968At the height of the Japanese university protests, protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and clashed violently with police.
• 1994In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed.

Born on this day

• 1772Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1834)
• 1833Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• 1949Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli captain and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
• 1980Kim Kardashian, American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite