Today in History for 21st October 2016:
Historical Events
1923 – 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1938 – Japanese troops occupies Canton
1950 – Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women’s Golf Invitation
1975 – Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
2007 – MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3
2014 – San Francisco Giants win game one of the 2014 World Series
Famous Birthdays
1757 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1933 – Georgia Brown, [Lillian Getel], actress (Study in Terror, Fixer)
1936 – James H “Simon” Gray, English playwright (Butley)
1959 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1967 – Bill Berg, St Catharines, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1984 – Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
Famous Deaths
1505 – Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1963 – George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
1983 – Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
1984 – Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
2005 – Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress, shot at 16