Columbus Weather Almanac
Thursday, October 21
The 294th day of the year 71 days left
Today in history
On the morning of October 21, 1966, a landslide of coal waste crashes into a small Welsh mining village, killing 116 children and 28 adults. The accident left just five survivors and wiped out half the town’s youth. The Aberfan disaster became one of the UK’s worst coal mining accidents.
The landslide sent 140,000 cubic yards…