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October 21st in History

1982: Gerry Adams elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the first Sinn Fein member to do so

October 21st birthdays

1760: Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter
1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and friend of Wordsworth
1833: Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of 'Dynamite'