Just like Erin...

But not exactly. I remember her doing this not too long ago but I don't remember the specifics. Here are the things about October 21st (from Wikipedia) that caught my attention:

EVENTS
-1805 Battle of Trafalgar (Napoleonic Wars) is won by the English
-1854 Florence Nightingale and 38 nurses were sent to the front of the Crimean War
-1945 Women in France are allowed to vote for the first time
-1945 Juan Peron marries Evita
-1959 The Guggenheim (Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) was first open to the public.

BIRTHS
-1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-1833 Alfred Nobel
-1917 Dizzy Gillespie
-1924 Celia Cruz
-1956 Carrie Fisher

DEATHS
-1969 Jack Kerouac
-1995 Shannon Hoon
-2003 Elliott Smith

HOLIDAYS
- Saint Ursula, patron saint of Students. She decided to go on a pilgrimage around Europe before being married off by her father but fatefully massacred by the Huns in Cologne along with her 11,000 virginal handmaidens. In 1969 she was taken off the catholic cannon of saints and replaced by Saint Hilerion (a man of course) because who could ever believe that she traveled with all those virgins.

-Diwali the Hindu/Buddhist (as well as Sikh and Jian) Festival of Lights. Which represents the victory of good over evil and lamps are lit as a symbol of hope for mankind.

The rest is all here.