Today is Tuesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2025. There are 71 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Oct. 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as \u201cOld Ironsides,\u201d was christened in Boston\u2019s harbor.<\/p>\n
In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed.<\/p>\n
In 1940, Ernest Hemingway\u2019s novel \u201cFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u201d was first published.<\/p>\n
In 1944, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen (AH\u2019-kuhn) \u2014 the first German city to fall to American forces in World War II.<\/p>\n
In 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.<\/p>\n
In 2013, a seventh grader at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada, shot and killed a teacher and wounded two classmates before taking his own life.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The conviction was later upgraded to murder; Pistorius was released on parole in January 2024.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Actor Alec Baldwin was pointing a gun on the set of the Western movie \u201cRust\u201d in New Mexico when it went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Charges of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin were dropped in July 2024.<\/p>\n
In 2024, jury selection began in the trial of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Daniel Penny, for placing a man who was acting erratically on a New York City subway train in May 2023 in a deadly chokehold. In December 2024, Penny was cleared of all charges, including criminally negligent homicide.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Rock singer Manfred Mann is 85.
\nTV\u2019s Judge Judy Sheindlin is 83.
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 76.
\nFormer first daughter Patti Davis is 73.
\nFilm director Catherine Hardwicke is 70.
\nActor Ken Watanabe (wah-tah-NAH\u2019-bee) is 66.
\nRepublican Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina is 54.
\nActor Will Estes is 47.
\nReality TV star Kim Kardashian (kahr-DASH\u2019-ee-uhn) is 45.
\nActor Glenn Powell is 37.
\nCountry singer Kane Brown is 32.
\nSinger Doja Cat is 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Tuesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2025. There are 71 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8583,9,24,55,54,56,8582,3646],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-guggenheim-museum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-october-21-history","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}