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What Happened on May 21st This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
2014	Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24.
2012	A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
2012	A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
2011	Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
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.
2006	The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
2005	The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2003	The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.
2001	French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2000	Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
1998	In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
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.
1996	The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1994	The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1992	After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
1991	Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991	Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1988	Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.[8]
1982	Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
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.
1981	Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
1979	White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1976	Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
1972	Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1969	Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1966	The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1961	American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
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.
1946	Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1939	The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1937	A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
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.
1934	Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
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.
1927	Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1924	University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1917	The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
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).
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.
1904	The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1894	The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1881	The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
1871	Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
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.
1864	American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1864	The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
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.
1856	Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1851	Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
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.
1792	A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people.
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.
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.
1703	Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
1674	The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1660	The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy.
1659	In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end.
1554	Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
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.
1349	Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
996	Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
879	Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
878	Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
293	Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.

Famous People Born on May 21

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Year	Name
1968	Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
1916	Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002)
1970	Dorsey Levens, American football player and sportscaster
1912	John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (d. 1986)
1989	Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
1967	Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1850	Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914)
1837	Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1919)
1966	Tatyana Ledovskaya, Belarusian hurdler
1966	Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright

Famous People Deaths On May 21

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 21. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
252	Sun Quan, Chinese emperor of Eastern Wu (b. 182)
1254	Conrad IV, king of Germany (b. 1228)
2020	Alan Merten, fifth President of George Mason University (b. 1941)
1075	Richeza of Poland, queen of Hungary (b. 1013)
954	Feng Dao, Chinese prince and chancellor (b. 882)
1919	Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
2003	Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (b. 1928)
1686	Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
1991	Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
2012	Eddie Blazonczyk, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)