10-20-2010, 08:46 PM
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October 21st
1772 ~ Birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet.
1805 ~ A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.
1805 ~ Death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize.
1854 ~ Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1879 ~ Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light.
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 bomb.
1983 ~ The meter was defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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