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Oct. 21 (UPI) — On this date in history:
In 1805, in one of history’s biggest marine fights, the British fleet under Adm. Horatio Nelson beat the integrated French-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.
In 1879, after 14 months of experiments, Thomas Edison created the veryfirst useful electrical incandescent light.
In 1948, Western Allies chose to withdraw their condemnation of Russia as a danger to peace on the condition that the Berlin blockade was raised, accepting a small-nation formula as a “hopeful basis” for fixing the Berlin crisis.
In 1959, rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his group were moved from the U.S. Army to the freshly produced National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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In 1959, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened in New York City. The constructing, developed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is thoughtabout one of the finest examples of architecture in the 20th century.
In 1966, an avalanche of coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside, burying a school in the town of Aberfan and killing 148 individuals, mainly young trainees.
In 1983, Grenada’s recently setup military rulers lookedfor to combine manage as 1,900 Marines steamed towards the Cuban-backed island following a week-old coup that left as numerous as 15 individuals dead.
In 1991, Beirut University teacher Jesse Turner, a captive giventhat January 1987, was launched by his captors in Lebanon.
In 1994, Rosario Ames, betterhalf of admitted spy Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to 63 months in jail for workingtogether with him.
In 1999, the National Park Service redesignated the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument as a nationwide park in Colorado.
In 2004, the most senior soldier implicated in the Abu Ghraib jail abuse scandal in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Ivan “Chip” Frederick