"On Oct. 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York. Also on this date: In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was christened in Boston's harbor. In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed. In 1940, Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published."
"In 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales. In 2013, a seventh grader at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada, shot and killed a teacher and wounded two classmates before taking his own life. In 2014, Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The conviction was later upgraded to murder; Pistorius was released on parole in January 2024."
Oct. 21 marks multiple historical milestones and tragedies across centuries. The Guggenheim Museum opened in New York in 1959. The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution was christened in 1797 and the Battle of Trafalgar occurred in 1805, where Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet but was killed. Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published in 1940. U.S. forces captured Aachen in 1944. The Aberfan landslide in 1966 killed 144 people, including 116 children. More recent events include school and on-set shootings and legal cases involving Oscar Pistorius, Alec Baldwin, and Daniel Penny. Notable birthdays include Manfred Mann, Judge Judy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Patti Davis, and Catherine Hardwicke.
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