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Hurricane Trudy menaces Mexico’s Pacific coast and Greece hit by deadly floods
By Alice Nightingale-Smith and Nick Lee for MetDesk
Trudy weakens to tropical storm after warnings of strong winds and heavy rain, while one person killed in Greece
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/19/hurricane-trudy-mexico-pacific-coast-greece-floods
#Mexico #Greece #Americas #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AliceNightingaleSmith #NickLeeforMetDesk
📅 OCTOBER 21 📖
#OnThisDay in #history:
1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1392 – Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
1910 – HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1944 – World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.