Today In History

Sat., Oct. 21, 2000

1797: The U.S. Navy frigate “Constitution,” also known as “Old Ironsides,” was launched in Boston’s harbor.

1805: A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed.

1879: Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

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

1944: During World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen.

1945: Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.

1959: The Guggenheim Museum in New York opened to the public.

1960: Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate.

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