births
October 21, 1950
Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (died 1986)
Ronald McNair
Ronald Erwin McNair was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.
October 21
October 21 is the 294th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 71 days remain until the end of the year.