October 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1854	Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.	Haymarket Riot	Goodnight Nurse	Endless Bummer
2.	1867	Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requiresNative American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.	Zola Jesus	Manifest Destiny	Stridulum II
3.	1879	Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).	The Caribbean	Bulbs & Switches	History's First Know it All
4.	1944	The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.	The Impossibles	Kamikaze	Anthology '94-'98
5.	1959	President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.	Cap'n Jazz	We Are Scientists!	Alphabetapolothology II
6.	1983	The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.	Interpol	Length of Love	Antics

(Historical facts about October 21 are from Wikipedia)