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October 21
What happened on this day
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Edison's lightbulb works
147 years ago
Thomas Edison's carbon-filament lamp burns for over 13 hours in 1879, a key step toward practical electric light.
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Battle of Trafalgar
221 years ago
Nelson's fleet takes eighteen French and Spanish ships without losing one of its own in 1805; he is shot dead before it ends.
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Guggenheim Museum opens
67 years ago
Frank Lloyd Wright's white spiral opens on Fifth Avenue in 1959, six months after he died and sixteen years after he was asked.
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