On this day: October 21

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October 21

Aftermath of the Seongsu Bridge disaster​

• 1096 – First Crusade: At the Battle of Civetot, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
• 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
• 1966 – A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
• 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured).

• Birger Jarl (d. 1266)
• Henry Lawes (d. 1662)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
• Peter Mandelson (b. 1953)

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• October 20
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