1772 ~ Birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet. (for Oldfart)

1805 ~ A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.

1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize.

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

1879 ~ Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light.

1929 ~ Birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Author.

1944 ~ The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg bomb.

1945 ~ Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1964 ~ Birthday of Carmella Bing, Porn Actress.

1983 ~ The metre was defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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