October 21·Every year

Diwali

The Hindu festival of lights, celebrated over five days. Oil lamps line windowsills, fireworks fill the sky, families exchange sweets, and new clothes are worn. Also significant in Jainism and Sikhism.

Category: Culture
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Notable · 1994

North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit the former's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two countries.

2021A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.
2019Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2019In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.