WillDekkard
05-21-2010, 03:29 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 21st
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* 878 Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
* 879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
* 996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator Joγo da Nova.
* 1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School in Derby, England.
* 1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
* 1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
* 1758 Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
* 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.
* 1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
* 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
* 1863 American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
* 1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
* 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
* 1904 The Fιdιration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
* 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.
* 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
* 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
* 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
* 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.
* 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all 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 becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
* 1937 A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
* 1939 The National War Memorial (Canada) was unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
* 1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
* 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 know as the New York School.
* 1958 United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
* 1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
* 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
* 1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
* 1972 Michelangelo's Pietΰ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
* 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
* 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy OHara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
* 1990 Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to a unity, merging into Republic of Yemen.
* 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.
* 1994 Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen, war breaks out.
* 1996 The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
* 1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
* 1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
* 1998 Suharto, Indonesian president of 32 years, resigns.
* 2001 French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
* 2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
* 2004 Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
* 2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
* 2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
* 2007 The clipper Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England.
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- May 21st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 878 Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
* 879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
* 996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator Joγo da Nova.
* 1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School in Derby, England.
* 1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
* 1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
* 1758 Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
* 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.
* 1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
* 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
* 1863 American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
* 1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
* 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
* 1904 The Fιdιration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
* 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.
* 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
* 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
* 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
* 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.
* 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all 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 becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
* 1937 A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
* 1939 The National War Memorial (Canada) was unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
* 1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
* 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 know as the New York School.
* 1958 United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
* 1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
* 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
* 1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
* 1972 Michelangelo's Pietΰ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
* 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
* 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy OHara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
* 1990 Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to a unity, merging into Republic of Yemen.
* 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.
* 1994 Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen, war breaks out.
* 1996 The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
* 1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
* 1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
* 1998 Suharto, Indonesian president of 32 years, resigns.
* 2001 French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
* 2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
* 2004 Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
* 2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
* 2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
* 2007 The clipper Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England.
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