On this day 21st October

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Facts

1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War

1944 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1993 Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee

Deaths

1422 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54

1662 Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66

1775 Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)

1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar

1931 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69

1965 Bill Black, American band leader and bassist who worked with Elvis, dies of a brain tumour at 39

1980 Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)

2015 Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), dies at 79

Born on this day

1980 Kim [Kimberly] Kardashian, American TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California