OCTOBER 21
1989:Bertram Lee and Peter Bynoe become the first African Americans to own a major sports team when they purchase the Denver Nuggets. The NBA franchise costs them $65 million.
1921: President Warren G. Harding is the first sitting president to condemn the all-too-frequent lynching of African Americans conducted by Ku Klux Klan members in the Deep South, during a speech in Birmingham, Ala. Harding was speaking in support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, yet the civil rights legislation would not pass the U.S. Senate.
1958: Buddy Holly steps into the Pythian Temple Studio in New York City to record a series of tracks with the Ray Ellis Orchestra, including "True Love Ways" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." It is Holly's first attempt to combine orchestral strings with rock 'n' roll music. Sadly, it is Holly's last studio session; he would be killed in a plane crash in February 1959.
1967:In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the Vietnam War.
1945:Women first allowed to vote in France
1892 :World's Columbian Exposition (or, Chicago World's Fair) opens in Chicago
1867: Medicine Lodge Treaty signed relocating Native American Plains tribes to Oklahoma
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