TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008

Today is Tuesday, October 21, the 295th day of 2008. There are 71 days left in the year.

1520 _ Magellan entered the strait which bears his name

1553 _ Volumes of the Talmud are burned

1805 _ Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies

1879 _ Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1915 _ First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va., to Paris

1950 _ Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1967 _ Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon

1970 _ 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1976 _ American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1988 _ Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges