^B{^#!16!21 October^N! Feast day of St Hilarion, St Fintan or Munnu of Taghmon, St Condedus, St Tuda, St John of Bridlington, and St Malchus.
^B{1805^B} The British defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. ^B{1858^B} Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld was first performed, in Paris. ^B{1934^B} Mao Zedong's Long March, with his 100,000-strong Communist army, began. ^B{1950^B} Tibet was occupied by Chinese forces. ^B{1960^B} Britain launched its first nuclear submarine, the HMS ^I{Dreadnought^I}. ^B{1966^B} The Welsh village of Aberfan was engulfed by a collapsed slagheap, killing 144, including 116 children. ^B{1967^B} Egyptian missiles sank the Israeli destroyer ^I{Eilat^I}, with the loss of over 40 lives. ^B{1984^B} Niki Lauda became world motor-racing champion for the third time. ^B{1991^B} Jesse Turner, an American who had been held hostage in Lebanon for just under five years, was freed by his captors.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker, ^B{1760^B}; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, ^B{1772^B}; Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist, ^B{1833^B}; Georg Solti, British conductor, ^B{1912^B}; Dizzie Gillespie, US jazz trumpeter, ^B{1917^B}; Carrie Fisher, US film actress, ^B{1956^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Pietro Aretino, Italian writer, ^B{1556^B}; Edmund Waller, English poet, ^B{1687^B}; Horatio, Viscount Nelson, English admiral, killed at Trafalgar, ^B{1805^B}; Jack Kerouac, US poet and novelist, ^B{1969^B}; Bob Todd, English comedy actor, ^B{1992^B}.
