October 21st
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- 1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City, revolutionizing museum architecture.
- 1989 Buck Helm is found alive after being buried for 4 days in the rubble of the San Francisco earthquake.
- 2019 World's oldest natural pearl, 8,000 years old, is announced as discovered during excavations at Marawah Island, near Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- 2021 Actor Alec Baldwin fatally shoots cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a film set at Bonanza Ranch, New Mexico.
- 2014 Oscar Pistorius is convicted and sentenced to five years for culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
- 1797 The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as 'Old Ironsides,' is launched in Boston's harbor.
- 1849 The first tattooed man, James F. O'Connell, is exhibited at the Franklin Theatre in New York City.
- 1918 Margaret Owen sets a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
- 1879 Thomas Edison successfully tests a workable electric light bulb, marking a key step in the development of electric lighting.
