Today in History: October 21, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modernist icon opens in New York
In current times is Tuesday Oct the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Oct the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York Also on this date In the U S Navy frigate Constitution also known as Old Ironsides was christened in Boston s harbor Related Articles Cards Against Humanity and Elon Musk s SpaceX reach settlement over alleged trespassing in Texas Giant floating pumpkin races draw large crowds to annual event in Oregon Man who planned to shoot up Atlanta s airport is arrested in a terminal following a tip police say Man who sent So I raped you message sentenced to to years for campus assault US man arrested in Scotland and convicted of Utah rape gets at least years in prison In a British fleet commanded by Vice Adm Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar Nelson however was killed In Ernest Hemingway s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published In U S troops captured the German city of Aachen AH -kuhn the first German city to fall to American forces in World War II In people of them children were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and particular houses in Aberfan Wales In a seventh grader at Sparks Middle School in Sparks Nevada shot and killed a guide and wounded two classmates before taking his own life In 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 disclosed on parole in January In Actor Alec Baldwin was pointing a gun on the set of the Western movie Rust 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 In 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 in a deadly chokehold In December Penny was cleared of all charges including criminally negligent homicide The present day s Birthdays Rock singer Manfred Mann is TV s Judge Judy Sheindlin is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is Former first daughter Patti Davis is Film director Catherine Hardwicke is Actor Ken Watanabe wah-tah-NAH -bee is Republican Sen Ted Budd of North Carolina is Actor Will Estes is Reality TV star Kim Kardashian kahr-DASH -ee-uhn is Actor Glenn Powell is Country singer Kane Brown is Singer Doja Cat is
