May 21

Saturday 21, 2005:

In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.

Friday 21, 2004:

Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983

Wednesday 21, 2003:

An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.

Sunday 21, 2000:

A chartered British Aerospace Jetstream 31 crashes near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killing 19.

Thursday 21, 1998:

Reproductive rights: In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.

Tuesday 21, 1991:

Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

Thursday 21, 1981:

Pierre Mauroy becomes Prime Minister of France.

Wednesday 21, 1980:

1980 - ' opens in theaters.

Monday 21, 1979:

White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

Saturday 21, 1966:

Cassius Clay beat Henry Cooper in the sixth round at the Arsenal football ground, North London.

Sunday 21, 1961:

American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.

Wednesday 21, 1958:

United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.

Monday 21, 1956:

Nuclear testing: In the Pacific Ocean, Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

Monday 21, 1945:

American screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.

Wednesday 21, 1941:

World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.

Thursday 21, 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 became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

Monday 21, 1934:

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.

Saturday 21, 1932:

Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday 21, 1927:

Charles Lindbergh touchs down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Wednesday 21, 1924:

University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."

Saturday 21, 1904:

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris.

Monday 21, 1894:

22-year-old French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by guillotine.

Saturday 21, 1881:

The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

Wednesday 21, 1879:

War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique, Chile, battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

Sunday 21, 1871:

French Government 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.

Thursday 21, 1863:

American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.

Wednesday 21, 1856:

Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.

Monday 21, 1725:

The Order of Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by an empress Catherine I.

Monday 21, 1674:

John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.

Wednesday 21, 1502:

The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova.

Saturday 21, 996:

Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

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