10-21-2004, 02:01 AM
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October 21st
1772 ~ Birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet.
1805 ~ Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish off the coast of Spain.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize.
1879 ~ Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).
1912 ~ Birthday of Sir Georg Solti, Conductor.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz Musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Author.
1944 ~ The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1966 ~ A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1994 ~ North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States signed an agreement that required North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
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