List of events which occurred on the 21st of October.
Events[]
- 1772
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born.
- 1797
- The United States Navy launches the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") in Boston.
- 1805
- The Battle of Trafalgar is fought on Earth, in which an ancestor of Jean-Luc Picard takes part. The British Royal Navy, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson aboard the HMS Victory, destroys a combined French and Spanish fleet, although Nelson is killed. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds", TNG movie: Generations)
- 1833
- Inventor Alfred Nobel is born.
- 1860
- Billy Claiborne is born.
- 1917
- Musician Dizzy Gillespie is born.
- 1942
- Captain Osborne Hardison takes command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. (ST - Enterprise Logs short story: "World of Strangers")
- 1950
- American astronaut Ronald McNair is born.
Appendices[]
Calendar of publication and production[]
- 1954
- Carmen Carter is born.
- 1972
- TOS comic: "The Perithees Alliance" concludes with the 9th installment, in Valiant and TV21 #56.
- 1980
- The 45th installment of TOS comic: "Husian Gambit" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
- 1981
- The 92nd installment of TOS comic: "Quarantine" is published.
- 1982
- The 47th installment of TOS comic: "A Merchant's Loyalty" is published.
- 1983
- The 5th installment of TOS comic: "Getting Real" is published.
- 1991
- TNG episode: "Disaster" airs (week of).
- VHS releases: Next Generation volumes 25, 26, and 27, starting the third season release, on CIC Video in the UK.
- 1996
- DS9 episode: "Nor the Battle to the Strong" airs (week of).
- 1998
- 2003
- NF anthology: No Limits is published by Pocket Books.
- 2008
- SCE omnibus: Wounds is published.
- 2009
- TOS - Nero comic: "Number Three" and Mission's End omnibus trade paperback comic collection are released by IDW Publishing.
- 2014
- TOS omnibus: New Visions, Volume 1 is published.
- 2015
- TOS - Live Evil comic: "Part 1" (Issue 50) is released.
- 2019
- TAS reference: The Official Guide to The Animated Series is published by Titan Books.
- 2021
- An excerpt of DS9 novel: Revenant is released on StarTrek.com.
External link[]
- 21 October article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.