In 1966, 144 people, mostly children, died when a mountain of waste coal collapsed, engulfing the infant school in Aberfan, South Wales.


In 1982, Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were elected to the the new Ulster Assembly with more than 10% of the votes. They declined to take their seats.


Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, the battlefield tactician and inventor who originated the word "tank" for the tracked, armoured fighting vehicle, was born today in 1868


Rum is known in the (Royal) Navy as 'Nelson's Blood', as the Little Admiral's body was sent home from Trafalgar today in 1805 in a barrel of rum, that sailors subsequently discovered and drank! (Now that's what you might call "dying for a drink!")

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind