THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Friday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 2016. There are 71 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1941: Superheroine Wonder Woman made her debut in All-Star Comics issue No. 8, published by All-American Comics, Inc. of New York.

IN THE WORLD

1917: Members of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army training in Luneville (luhn-nay-VEEL’), France, became the first Americans to see action on the front lines of World War I.

1966: 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Rock singer Manfred Mann is 76. TV’s Judge Judy Sheindlin is 74. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 67. Actress-author Carrie Fisher is 60. Actor Ken Watanabe is 57. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West is 36.