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May 21, 2003 Earthquake kills at least 2,266 in northern Algeria
May 21, 1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
May 21, 1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York
May 21, 1996 Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
May 21, 1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
May 21, 1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
May 21, 1994 "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 16 performances
May 21, 1994 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
May 21, 1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
May 21, 1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
May 21, 1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
May 21, 1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
May 21, 1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
May 21, 1993 Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
May 21, 1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
May 21, 1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss vs. Australia
May 21, 1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
May 21, 1992 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
May 21, 1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6%
May 21, 1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
May 21, 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
May 21, 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
May 21, 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
May 21, 1988 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
May 21, 1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
May 21, 1988 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
May 21, 1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
May 21, 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 21, 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
May 21, 1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
May 21, 1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
May 21, 1986 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 21, 1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
May 21, 1983 109th Preakness: Donald Miller, Jr. on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
May 21, 1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
May 21, 1983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
May 21, 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
May 21, 1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
May 21, 1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
May 21, 1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
May 21, 1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
May 21, 1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
May 21, 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad
May 21, 1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone
May 21, 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R.
May 21, 1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
May 21, 1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
May 21, 1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
May 21, 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
May 21, 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
May 21, 1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances
May 21, 1977 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
May 21, 1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in New York City
May 21, 1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
May 21, 1977 San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
May 21, 1975 Borussia Monchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
May 21, 1975 Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
May 21, 1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
May 21, 1972 "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance
May 21, 1972 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 39 performances
May 21, 1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
May 21, 1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
May 21, 1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
May 21, 1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
May 21, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
May 21, 1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
May 21, 1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
May 21, 1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets
May 21, 1968 Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
May 21, 1968 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
May 21, 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground)
May 21, 1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 21, 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
May 21, 1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 14 performances
May 21, 1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
May 21, 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs. Miller hits #82
May 21, 1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 41 performances
May 21, 1966 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
May 21, 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
May 21, 1966 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97
May 21, 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
May 21, 1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
May 21, 1964 Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19
May 21, 1964 U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos
May 21, 1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
May 21, 1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
May 21, 1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
May 21, 1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 702 performances
May 21, 1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
May 21, 1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
May 21, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
May 21, 1957 French government of Mollet resigns
May 21, 1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
May 21, 1956 U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
May 21, 1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
May 21, 1955 "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 165 performances
May 21, 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
May 21, 1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
May 21, 1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
May 21, 1953 French government of Mayer resigns
May 21, 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cin Reds, 19-1
May 21, 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
May 21, 1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
May 21, 1948 New York Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
May 21, 1945 Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
May 21, 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
May 21, 1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed
May 21, 1944 Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots"
May 21, 1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
May 21, 1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
May 21, 1941 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
May 21, 1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
May 21, 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
May 21, 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
May 21, 1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
May 21, 1940 Reynaud forms French government
May 21, 1938 Bradman scores 143 Aust vs. Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
May 21, 1934 Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st U.S. city to fingerprint its citizens
May 21, 1933 Mt. Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph
May 21, 1932 1st Curtis Cup: U.S., 5 -3
May 21, 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands
May 21, 1931 Belgian government of Jaspar falls
May 21, 1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
May 21, 1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
May 21, 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City
May 21, 1929 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
May 21, 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
May 21, 1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
May 21, 1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
May 21, 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
May 21, 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
May 21, 1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
May 21, 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
May 21, 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
May 21, 1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
May 21, 1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
May 21, 1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
May 21, 1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
May 21, 1914 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
May 21, 1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
May 21, 1908 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago
May 21, 1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
May 21, 1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
May 21, 1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
May 21, 1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
May 21, 1898 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
May 21, 1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
May 21, 1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
May 21, 1891 Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
May 21, 1886 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
May 21, 1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
May 21, 1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
May 21, 1879 Battle of Iquiquw
May 21, 1878 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37
May 21, 1866 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
May 21, 1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
May 21, 1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
May 21, 1861 Richmond, Virginia is designated Confederate Capital
May 21, 1856 Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
May 21, 1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
May 21, 1840 NZ became a British colony
May 21, 1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
May 21, 1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
May 21, 1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in New York City
May 21, 1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
May 21, 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
May 21, 1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
May 21, 1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
May 21, 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
May 21, 1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
May 21, 1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
May 21, 1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St. Helena
May 21, 1471 King Edwards IV enters London
May 21, 1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
May 21, 1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
May 21, 1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
May 21, 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
May 21, 685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
May 21, 143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed



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