THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 21
October 21 in history
What happened on October 21: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1600 and 1956, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Sekigahara
21 Oct 1600 — Tokugawa Ieyasu’s eastern army defeats the western coalition in a single day near this mountain pass. The lords who had fought against him became the “outer” (tozama) lords, kept at the edges of the map for the next 268 years.
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— Capture of Dedan Kimathi
21 Oct 1956 — The forest leader is shot and captured near Nyeri by a tribal policeman; he is hanged in February 1957. The organised forest war is effectively over.
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