21st of October 2026
21st of October 2026 is the 294th day of the year.
It is Trafalgar Day...more, Apple Day...more.
This day in history:
1641: Irish Catholic Uprising - ...more
1805: Battle of Trafalgar - ...more
1958: First Women Peers Enter Lords - ...more
1960: 1st British Nuclear Powered Sub launched - ...more
1966: The Aberfan Disaster - ...more
More dates from British history.
British quote for the day:
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare.
Born today:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772, Jeannie Robertson - 1908, Sir Georg Solti - 1912, Malcolm Arnold - 1921, Leonard Rossiter - 1926, Geoffrey Boycott - 1940, Mandy Rice-Davies - 1944, Jade Jagger - 1971.
Died today:
Henry Lawes - 1662, Edmund Waller - 1687, Horatio Nelson - 1805, James Greathead - 1896, Muirhead Bone - 1953, Katharine Atholl - 1960, Teresa Billington-Greig - 1964, Alan John Sainsbury - 1998.
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