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Events on the 21st of May in history

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21 May 0143 Earliest known date in America-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
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21 May 0293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
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21 May 0685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
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21 May 0878 Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
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21 May 0879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
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21 May 0996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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21 May 0996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
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21 May 1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
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21 May 1085 The Swedish town of Helsingborg is founded.
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21 May 1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
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21 May 1349 Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
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21 May 1403 Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
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21 May 1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
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21 May 1471 King Edwards IV enters London
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21 May 1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.
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21 May 1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
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21 May 1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
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21 May 1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
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21 May 1554 Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
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21 May 1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
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21 May 1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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21 May 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
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21 May 1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
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21 May 1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
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21 May 1758 Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
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21 May 1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
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21 May 1793 Cura
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21 May 1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
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21 May 1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
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21 May 1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
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21 May 1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in New York City
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21 May 1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
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21 May 1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
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21 May 1840 New Zealand became a British colony
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21 May 1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
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21 May 1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
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21 May 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
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21 May 1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union
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21 May 1861 Richmond VA is designated Confederate Capital
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21 May 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
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21 May 1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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21 May 1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
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21 May 1864 Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
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21 May 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
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21 May 1864 The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
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21 May 1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
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21 May 1866 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
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21 May 1871 French 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.
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21 May 1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
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21 May 1871 French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
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21 May 1878 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37
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21 May 1879 War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
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21 May 1879 Battle of Iquiquw
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21 May 1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
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21 May 1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
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21 May 1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed
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21 May 1886 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
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21 May 1891 Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
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21 May 1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
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21 May 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
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21 May 1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1 meter) refractor used for 1st time
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21 May 1898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
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21 May 1904 The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
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21 May 1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France
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21 May 1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
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21 May 1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
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21 May 1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
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21 May 1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
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21 May 1911 President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
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21 May 1914 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
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21 May 1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
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21 May 1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
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21 May 1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
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21 May 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
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21 May 1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WWI
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21 May 1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
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21 May 1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Company
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21 May 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
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21 May 1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
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21 May 1922 Colonel Ruppert buys out Colonel Huston interest in New York Yankees for $1,500,000
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21 May 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
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21 May 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
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21 May 1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
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21 May 1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
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21 May 1925 Canadians allow to beer sales
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21 May 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
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21 May 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
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21 May 1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
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21 May 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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21 May 1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
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21 May 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City
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21 May 1929 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris France
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21 May 1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
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21 May 1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
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21 May 1931 Belgian Government of Jaspar falls
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21 May 1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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21 May 1932 1st Curtis Cup: US, 5
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21 May 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
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21 May 1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
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21 May 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
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21 May 1934 Oskaloosa IA, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
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21 May 1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
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21 May 1937 A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
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21 May 1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours
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21 May 1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
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21 May 1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
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21 May 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
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21 May 1940 Reynaud forms French Government
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21 May 1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
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21 May 1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
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21 May 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
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21 May 1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
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21 May 1943 Fastest 9 inning American League baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators
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21 May 1944 Hitler begins attack on English / US "terror pilots"
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21 May 1945 Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
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21 May 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
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21 May 1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
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21 May 1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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21 May 1948 New York Yankee Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun)
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21 May 1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
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21 May 1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
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21 May 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1
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21 May 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
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21 May 1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
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21 May 1955 "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
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21 May 1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 May 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
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21 May 1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
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21 May 1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
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21 May 1956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
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21 May 1957 French Government of Mollet resigns
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21 May 1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
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21 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
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21 May 1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
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21 May 1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
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21 May 1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
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21 May 1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
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21 May 1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
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21 May 1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
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21 May 1962 3 more Cleveland homeruns set American League record for most homeruns (26) over 8 games
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21 May 1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
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21 May 1964 Fire in W
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21 May 1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
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21 May 1965 Admission the flag of Canadian province Ontario.
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21 May 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
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21 May 1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
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21 May 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
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21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 May 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
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21 May 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
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21 May 1966 "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
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21 May 1966 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
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21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London
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21 May 1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 performances
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21 May 1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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21 May 1968 Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
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21 May 1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
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21 May 1968 US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
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21 May 1968 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
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21 May 1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 May 1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
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21 May 1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the New York Mets
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21 May 1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
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21 May 1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
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21 May 1970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
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21 May 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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21 May 1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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21 May 1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
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21 May 1972 "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
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21 May 1972 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 performances
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21 May 1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
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21 May 1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
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21 May 1975 Borussia M
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21 May 1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission
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21 May 1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
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21 May 1976 The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
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21 May 1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances
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21 May 1977 SD Padres beat Montreal Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
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21 May 1977 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew (undefeated) wins in 1:54.4
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21 May 1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC
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21 May 1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
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21 May 1977 San Diego Padres beat Montr
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21 May 1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
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21 May 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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21 May 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
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21 May 1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
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21 May 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
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21 May 1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Fransisco mayor Moscone
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21 May 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR
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21 May 1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
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21 May 1979 Stanley Cup: Montr
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21 May 1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
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21 May 1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premeires
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21 May 1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
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21 May 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy
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21 May 1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes President of France
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21 May 1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat the Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
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21 May 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
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21 May 1981 The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
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21 May 1981 Fran
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21 May 1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
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21 May 1982 Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
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21 May 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
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21 May 1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
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21 May 1983 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
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21 May 1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base, for mating for STS-7 mission
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21 May 1983 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1
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21 May 1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
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21 May 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
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21 May 1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
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21 May 1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
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21 May 1988 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
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21 May 1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
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21 May 1988 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
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21 May 1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
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21 May 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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21 May 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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21 May 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez (her 3rd LPGA championship)
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21 May 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
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21 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,844.68
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21 May 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV; It was all a dream
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21 May 1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
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21 May 1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
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21 May 1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
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21 May 1992 After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
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21 May 1992 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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21 May 1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
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21 May 1993 Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
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21 May 1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
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21 May 1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss vs Australia
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21 May 1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andr
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21 May 1994 "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 performances
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21 May 1994 The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
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21 May 1994 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
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21 May 1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
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21 May 1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
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21 May 1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
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21 May 1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
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21 May 1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
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21 May 1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
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21 May 1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York
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21 May 1996 The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
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21 May 1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
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21 May 1996 Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 homeruns
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21 May 1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
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21 May 1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
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21 May 1998 In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
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21 May 1998 President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
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21 May 2001 French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
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21 May 2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
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21 May 2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
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21 May 2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
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21 May 2010 JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
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21 May 2011 Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
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21 May 2012 A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
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21 May 2012 A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
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21 May 2014 A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves four people dead and almost two dozen others injured.
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21 May 2014 The National September 11 Museum opens to the public.
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