On this day

1772: Mariner, Poet Kubla Samuel Khan) Taylorwas born Coleridgein Ottery (The StMary, Ancient Devon. 1805: Battle Lordof Trafalgar Nelson, – Britishdying at naval the hero, moment was the killed Franco-at the Spanish fleet surrendered. 1833: Alfred Nobel, industrialist, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, was born in Stockholm. 1858: The Can-Can was first performed in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in Paris. 1918: The Spanish flu epidemic started in Britain, killing twice as many as died in World War I. 1940: Geoffrey Boycott, Yorkshire and England cricketer, was born in Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire. 1950: Chinese forces occupied Tibet. 1952: The president of the Kenya African Union, Jomo Kenyatta, was arrested following the declaration of a state of emergency in the British colony of Kenya. 1966: 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, 116were children. 1982: Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness made history by becoming the first members of Sinn Fein to be elected to the Ulster Assembly. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Back To The Future Day was celebrated – October 21 2015was the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future in their DeLorean time machine in Stephen Spielberg’s Back To The Future: Part II.