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On this Day ~ May 21st

427 BC
Plato, Greek philosopher was born

0143
Earliest known date in America-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed

987
King Louis V of France, dies

0996
Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor

1216
French crown prince Louis enters England

1420
Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English

1471
King Edwards IV enters London

1502
Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena

1602
Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)

1780
Elizabeth Fry Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born

1804
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

1840
New Zealand became a British colony

1846
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii

1861
North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union

1871
French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die

1879
Battle of Iquiquw

1881
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1908
1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1914
Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota

1916
Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)

1917
Great Atlanta fire

1918
House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1925
Canadians allow beer sales


1927
Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic

1932
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands

1940
AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1941
1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1944
Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"

1945
German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945
Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

1952
Mr T. Was born

1954
Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated

1956
US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1961
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1966
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97

1966
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London

1969
Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1979
Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR

1980
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back opens in theaters.

1982
British troops lands on Falkland Islands

1983
"Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63

1983
David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1

1988
"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99

1990
Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV; It was all a dream

1997
Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time