1966 - 116 children and 28 adults are killed when heavy rainfall caused a colliery spoil tip to slide onto the town of Aberfan, in Wales, destroying a primary school and several houses.
A radio news report from Gareth Bowen, the father of future BBC war and Middle East reporter Jeremy Bowen:
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