21 October 1966 Posted on October 20, 2012 by Staff A slag pile collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." Christopher Morley — Click here for more from Christopher Morley Related posts: 9 October 1966 8 September 1966 8 October 1968 26 August 1966 8 September 1966 21 October 1945 7 October 1982 19 October 1956 17 July 1981