On this day in history
October 21
American
1879Thomas Edison tests a carbon filament bulb at Menlo Park that burns for 13 hours, in a trial traditionally dat…
Thomas Edison tests a carbon filament bulb at Menlo Park that burns for 13 hours, in a trial traditionally dated to this day; practical electric light is born.
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1959The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum opens in New York in Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral building.
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum opens in New York in Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral building.
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World
1805Admiral Nelson destroys the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar but is killed by a sniper's bullet; Britain…
Admiral Nelson destroys the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar but is killed by a sniper's bullet; Britain rules the seas for a century.
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1966A coal waste tip collapses onto the Welsh village of Aberfan, burying a school and killing 116 children and 28…
A coal waste tip collapses onto the Welsh village of Aberfan, burying a school and killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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1520Ferdinand Magellan enters the strait at the tip of South America that will bear his name, finding the passage …
Ferdinand Magellan enters the strait at the tip of South America that will bear his name, finding the passage to the Pacific.
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