Today is Tuesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2025. There are 71 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Oct. 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.

Also on this date:

In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” was christened in Boston’s 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, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen (AH’-kuhn) — the first German city to fall to American forces in World War II.

In 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school a

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