Monday, October 21, 2019.

• 1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet
• 1950 - Death penality abolished in Belgium
• 1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
• 1950 - Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
• 1952 - Dutch govt refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
• 1954 - Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
• 1954 - Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
• 1956 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
• 1957 - Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
• 1957 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
• 1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
• 1958 - 1st women in English House of Lords
• 1959 - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
• 1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
• 1959 - Players Assn approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
• 1960 - 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
• 1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
• 1961 - Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
• 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
• 1964 - Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
• 1964 - Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
• 1965 - KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1965 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
• 1965 - Robert B Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
• 1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
• 1966 - 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
• 1967 - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
• 1967 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
• 1969 - Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
• 1969 - Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in NYC
• 1969 - Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
• 1969 - Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
• 1970 - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• 1970 - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
• 1970 - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
• 1971 - "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 perfs
• 1971 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
• 1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1971 - William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
• 1972 - "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 1972 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 perfs
• 1972 - "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances