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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2026. There are 71 days left in the year. Birthdays: Rock singer Manfred Mann is 86. TV’s Judge Judy Sheindlin is 84. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 77. Film director Catherine Hardwicke is 71. Actor Ken Watanabe is 67. Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina is 55. Actor Andrew Scott is 50. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is 46. Actor Glenn Powell is 38. Country singer Kane Brown is 33. Singer Doja Cat is 31. Actor Ashley Liao is 25. In 1797, the US Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” was christened in Boston Harbor. In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed. In 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was first published. In 1944, US troops captured the German city of Aachen — the first German city to fall to American forces in World War II. In 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York. 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.
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