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May 21
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May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). There are 224 days remaining.
Events
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996 - Sixteen-year-old
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III is crowned
Holy Roman Emperor.
*
1502 - The island of
Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator
João da Nova.
*
1674 -
John III of Poland John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of
Poland.
*
1725 - The
Order of Alexander Nevsky was instituted in
Russia by an empress
Catherine I.
*
1758 -
Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in
Pennsylvania by
Lenape during the
French and Indian War.
*
1856 -
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-
slavery forces.
*
1863 -
American Civil War:
Siege of Port Hudson –
United States Union forces begin to lay
siege to the
Confederate States of America Confederate-controlled
Port Hudson, Louisiana.
*
1871 -
France French Government troops invade the
Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000
communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
*
1879 -
War of the Pacific: Two
Chilean ships blocking the harbor of
Iquique, Chile, battle two
Peruvian vessels in the
Iquique Naval Combat Battle of Iquique.
*
1881 - The
American Red Cross is established by
Clara Barton.
*
1894 - The
Manchester Ship Canal in
England is officially opened by
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir
Edward Leader Williams.
*
1894 - 22-year-old
France French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by
guillotine.
*
1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (
FIFA) founded in
Paris.
*
1917 -
Great Atlanta fire of 1917
*
1924 -
University of Chicago students
Leopold and Loeb Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "
thrill killing."
*
1927 -
Charles Lindbergh touchs down at
Le Bourget Airport Le Bourget Field in
Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean.
*
1932 -
Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in
Derry,
Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic Ocean.
*
1934 -
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the
United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.
*
1936 -
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of
Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed
genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals.
*
1941 -
World War II: 950 miles off the coast of
Brazil, the freighter
SS Robin Moor SS ''Robin Moor'' becomes the first
United States ship sunk by a German
U-boat.
*
1945 - American screen legend
Humphrey Bogart marries actress
Lauren Bacall.
*
1956 -
Nuclear testing: In the
Pacific Ocean,
Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a
hydrogen bomb.
*
1958 -
United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December,
subscriber trunk dialling Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the
Bristol area.
*
1961 -
American civil rights movement:
Alabama Governor
John Patterson declares
martial law in an attempt to restore order after
race riots break out.
*
1966 -
Cassius Clay beat
Henry Cooper in the sixth round at
Arsenal Stadium,
Highbury, north
London.
*
1979 -
White Night riots in
San Francisco following the
manslaughter conviction of
Dan White for the assassinations of
George Moscone and
Harvey Milk.
*
1980 - ''
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' opens in theaters.
*
1981 -
Pierre Mauroy becomes Prime Minister of
France.
*
1982 -
D-Day, Falklands. British troops land on the island.
*
1991 - Former
Indian prime minister
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a
female suicide bomber near
Chennai Madras.
*
1998 - At Thurston High School in
Springfield, Oregon,
Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a
gun to school, shoots a
semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home.
*
1998 -
Reproductive rights: In
Miami, Florida, five
abortion clinics are hit by a
butyric acid attacker.
*
2000 - A chartered
British Aerospace Jetstream 31 crashes near
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killing 19.
*
2003 - An
earthquake hits northern
Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
*
2004 -
Sherpa Pemba Dorje climbs
Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival
Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
*2004 -
Stanislav Petrov is awarded the
World Citizen Award for averting a potential
World War III in
1983
*
2005 - In
Kiev,
Ukraine,
Greece wins the fiftieth
Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by
Elena Paparizou.
Births
*
427 BC -
Plato, Greek philosopher (d.
347 BC)
*
1471 -
Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist (d.
1528)
*
1526 - King
Philip II of Spain (d.
1598)
*
1664 -
Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d.
1754)
*
1688 -
Alexander Pope, English poet (d.
1744)
*
1763 -
Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d.
1820)
*
1780 -
Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (d.
1845)
*
1792 -
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d.
1843)
*
1843 -
Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1914)
*
1844 -
Henri Rousseau, French artist (d.
1910)
*
1850 -
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d.
1914)
*
1851 -
Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1925)
*
1853 -
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d.
1905)
*
1860 -
Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1927)
*
1863 -
Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d.
1954)
*
1873 -
Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d.
1941)
*
1898 -
Armand Hammer, American physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector (d.
1990)
*
1901 -
Horace Heidt, American band leader (d.
1986)
*
1901 -
Sam Jaffe (producer) Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d.
2000)
*
1902 -
Earl Averill, baseball player (d.
1983)
*
1902 -
Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d.
1981)
*
1903 -
Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d.
1986)
*
1904 -
Robert Montgomery (actor) Robert Montgomery, American actor (d.
1981)
*
1904 -
Fats Waller, American pianist (d.
1943)
*
1912 -
Monty Stratton, baseball player (d.
1982)
*
1916 -
Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d.
2002)
*
1916 -
Harold Robbins, American novelist (d.
1997)
*
1917 -
Raymond Burr, American actor (d.
1993)
*
1921 -
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (d.
1989)
*
1923 -
Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d.
2003)
*1923 -
Ara Parseghian, American football coach
*
1930 -
Malcolm Fraser, 22nd
Prime Minister of Australia
*
1933 -
Maurice André, French trumpeter
*
1934 -
Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1936 -
Günter Blobel, German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1939 -
Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist and composer
*
1941 -
Martin Carthy, English singer and guitarist
*
1944 -
Mary Robinson,
President of Ireland
*
1945 -
Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
*
1948 -
Leo Sayer, English pop singer & musician
*
1951 -
Al Franken, American comedian and author
*
1952 -
Mr. T, American actor
*
1955 -
Paul Barber (field hockey player) Paul Barber, British field hockey player
*
1955 -
Stan Lynch, American drummer
*
1956 -
Judge Reinhold, American actor
*
1957 -
Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
*
1963 -
Richard Appel, American
writer and
producer ("
The Simpsons")
*
1967 -
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
*1967 -
Lisa Edelstein, American actress
*
1972 -
The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d.
1997)
*1972 -
Alesha Oreskovich, American model
*
1975 -
Todd White, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1977 -
Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
*1977 -
Ricky Williams, American football player
*
1978 -
Briana Banks, German-American actress
*
1979 -
Damian Ariel Ã?lvarez, Argentinian footballer
*
1980 -
Chris Raab Raab Himself, American actor
*
1981 -
Belladonna (erotic actress) Belladonna, American actress
*
1981 -
Maximilian Mutzke Max, German singer
*
1987 -
Ashlie Brillault, American actress
Deaths
*
987 - King
Louis V of France
*
1254 -
Conrad IV of Germany (b.
1228)
*
1481 - King
Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b.
1426)
*
1512 -
Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
*
1524 -
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman
*
1542 -
Hernando de Soto (explorer) Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer
*
1607 -
John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (b.
1549)
*
1639 -
Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (b.
1568)
*
1647 -
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian (b.
1581)
*
1650 -
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (b.
1612)
*
1664 -
Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman
*
1670 -
Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b.
1586)
*
1690 -
John Eliot (missionary) John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b.
1604)
*
1724 -
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b.
1661)
*
1742 -
Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b.
1664)
*
1771 -
Christopher Smart, English poet (b.
1722)
*
1786 -
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b.
1742)
*
1790 -
Thomas Warton, English poet (b.
1728)
*
1844 -
Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b.
1775)
*
1894 -
Emile Henry, French anarchist (b.
1872)
*
1894 -
August Kundt, German physicist (b.
1839)
*
1895 -
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b.
1819)
*
1897 -
Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b.
1898)
*
1911 -
Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b.
1857)
*
1929 -
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Primrose,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1847)
*
1935 -
Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1860)
*
1952 -
John Garfield, American actor (b.
1913)
*
1964 -
James Franck, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1882)
*
1965 -
Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b.
1882)
*
1970 -
E. L. Grant Watson, Australian author and biologist (b.
1885)
*
1988 -
Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b.
1900)
*
1991 -
Rajiv Gandhi,
Prime Minister of India (b.
1944)
*
1996 -
Lash LaRue, American actor (b.
1917)
*
1999 -
Karnail Pitts, also known as Bugz, rapper for
D12 (band) D12 (b.
1979)
*
2000 -
Barbara Cartland, English author (b.
1901)
*2000 - Sir
John Gielgud, British actor (b.
1904)
*2000 -
Mark R. Hughes, American enterpreneur and a founder of
Herbalife (b.
1956)
*
2002 -
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b.
1930)
*
2003 -
Frank D. White, Governor of Arkansas (b.
1933)
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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