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Welsh history and its sources
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Aberfan Disaster

21 October 1966: a saturated colliery waste heap slipped down the hillside into the Rhondda town of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil. 20 houses and the local junior school were destroyed, killing 144 people, of whom 116 were pupils at the school.

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