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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47107)10/21/2004 3:31:52 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history:October 21st Oct:

1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson led the British fleet to defeat a combined French and Spanish navy in the Battle of Trafalgar.

1824 - Joseph Aspdin, an English bricklayer, received the patent for Portland cement.

1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.

1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island in the Philippines.

1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Domingo

Perón married popular actress Evita.

Wikipedia.com