First Act of Repeal restores pre-Edwardian religious settlement
Parliament passed the First Act of Repeal, restoring religious practices to pre-Edwardian form.
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Parliament passed the First Act of Repeal, restoring religious practices to pre-Edwardian form.
View detailsU.S. Patent No. 426,486 was granted to Wilcox for a combined clothes and dishwashing machine.
View detailsIsabelle Eberhardt died on October 21, 1904, in Aïn Sefra, Algeria.
View detailsBirth of Mary Browne Robinson (Mary Blair) in McAlester, Oklahoma, future Disney concept artist and designer.
View detailsBy October 21, 1916, newspapers described Sanger's Brownsville operation as the first out-and-out birth control clinic in the U.S.
View detailsIngrid van Houten-Groeneveld was born on October 21, 1921.
View detailsLaVonne "Pepper" Paire was born on October 21, 1924, in Los Angeles, California.
View detailsBirth of Bélgica Adela "Dedé" Mirabal Reyes in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
View detailsBirth of Margaret G. Kivelson in New York City, USA.
View detailsUrsula Kroeber Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber.
View detailsBecomes the first Black woman to front a white big band as featured singer with Artie Shaw’s Orchestra.
View detailsBorn in Vágur, Faroe Islands, Marita Petersen would become the first female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and a landmark figure in Faroese politics.
View detailsVaughan won first prize at the Apollo Theater's Amateur Night, launching her professional career.
View detailsPearl Bailey made her Broadway debut in 'St. Louis Woman,' winning a Donaldson Award for Best Newcomer and launching her stage career.
View detailsTheir monumental work wrapping a mile of Australian coastline in fabric officially opened, one of the earliest and largest landscape-scale art interventions ever attempted.
View detailsObserves concave-mirror demonstration on Oct 21, 1976, inspiring her invention of the Illusion Transmitter.
View detailsRuiz qualified for the 1980 Boston Marathon using a dishonest time in the 1979 NYC Marathon.
View detailsGranted U.S. Patent 4,229,761 for the Illusion Transmitter on Oct 21, 1980.
View detailsKwolek received the Kilby International Award for her work in polymer science.
View detailsSejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
View detailsThe 'Battle of London' sculpture was unveiled at the October Gallery, focusing on global political themes.
View detailsOn October 21, 2009, Zaha Hadid was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Architecture.
View detailsArnold received the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation for her work in directed evolution and green chemistry.
View detailsGoogle honors Mary Blair with a centennial Google Doodle, boosting public awareness of her influence on Disney art.
View detailsNarges Mohammadi received the Per Anger Prize in Sweden on October 21, 2011, for her human rights efforts.
View detailsAnnounced donation of Breakthrough Prize funds to PhD scholarships.
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