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
1966: 116 children and 28 adults die as a coal waste heap slides and engulfs a school in Aberfan, South Wales
1993: Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
Source: Οnthisday.com
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