In 1976, Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for literature, the first American honored since John Steinbeck in 1962. In 1971, President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. In 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York. troops captured the German city of Aachen (AH'-kuhn). In 1917, legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar Nelson, however, was killed. In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Adm. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," was christened in Boston's harbor. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
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