Today in History

October 21

1790- The Tricolour is chosen as the official flag of France.

1879 - American inventor Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the first electric lamp.

1945 - Argentine politician Juan Peron marries actress Eva Duarte.

1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet.

1975 - Mexico City subway crash kills 20 people when a stationary train is hit by another train.

1986 - American writer Edward Tracy is kidnapped by militants in Beirut. 1989 - A Honduran jet breaks apart in flight and crashes outside Tegucigalpa, killing at least 120 people.

2009 - A Khartoum-bound cargo plane crashes two minutes after take-off at Sharjah Airport, all six crew members die.