1805: Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson is shot and killed during the battle.
1854: Florence Nightingale, with a staff of 38 nurses, is sent to the Crimean War
1944: US troops capture Aachen, the first large German city to fall in World War II
1948: UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950: Chinese Communist 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, 525,000 Hutus flee, and President Melchior Ndadaye is assassinated
Source: Onthisday.com
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