Belfast Telegraph

IT HAPPENED TODAY

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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon.

Lord Nelson (above), English naval hero, was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar, dying at the precise moment the Franco-Spanish fleet surrendere­d.

Alfred Nobel, industrial­ist, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, was born in Stockholm.

The Can-Can was first performed in Offenbach’s Orpheus In The Underworld in Paris.

The “Spanish flu” epidemic started in Britain, eventually killing approximat­ely twice as many as died in the First World War.

Geoffrey Boycott (below), Yorkshire and England cricketer, was born in Fitzwillia­m, West Yorkshire.

Chinese forces occupied Tibet.

Disaster struck the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan when a colliery slag tip slid down the side of a hill and engulfed a row of houses, a farm and a school. Of the 144 people who died, 116 were children.

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness made history by becoming the first members of Sinn Fein to be elected to the Ulster Assembly.

Tackling antimicrob­ial resistance needs to become a top five policy priority for the Government in order to help prevent the virtual loss of modern medicine, MPs said.

Peter (Lord) Mandelson, former European Union trade commission­er, 66; Julian Cope, musician, 62; David Campese, former Australian rugby player, 57; Paul Ince, football manager, 52; Jade Jagger (above), jewellery designer, 48; Andrew Scott, actor, 43; Kim Kardashian, reality TV star/model, 39.

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