Daily Archives: October 21, 2016

Cincinnati Reds win World Series in four games 40 years ago tonight (Oct 21 1976)


Video: '1976 World Series, Game 4: Reds @ Yankees'

(Thursday, October 21, 1976, at about 11:06 p.m. EDT) — The Cincinnati Reds won the 1976 World Series tonight, beating the New York Yankees 7-2 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York, in the fourth and deciding game.

It was the second consecutive (1975-1976) and fourth of five World Series titles for the Reds (1919-1990).

144, mostly children, lost as coal waste engulfs school 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 21 1966)


Video: 'Aberfan Disaster Documentary'

(Friday, October 21, 1966, 9:15 a.m. BST) — 116 children and 28 adults were killed this morning when an avalanche of two million tons of rain-soaked coal waste slipped 500 feet down a mountainside and engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.