This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/21/ 427 -BC- Plato, [Aristocles], Athens(?), Greek philosopher (Politeia) 
05/21/1471 Albrecht Drer, Nrnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker 
05/21/1527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) 
05/21/1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer 
05/21/1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer 
05/21/1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer 
05/21/1688 Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock) 
05/21/1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer 
05/21/1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer 
05/21/1775 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano 
05/21/1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse 
05/21/1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876 
05/21/1808 G‚rard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia) 
05/21/1821 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director 
05/21/1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900

05/21/1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 
05/21/1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
05/21/1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro 
05/21/1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) 
05/21/1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
05/21/1841 Joseph Parry, composer 
05/21/1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer 
05/21/1844 Henri 'le Douanier' Rousseau, French ambassador/painter 
05/21/1851 L‚on Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) 
05/21/1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) 
05/21/1858 Jos‚ Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician 
05/21/1860 Willam Einthoven, inventor (electrocardiograph) 
05/21/1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages 
05/21/1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer 
05/21/1872 Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock) 
05/21/1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian 
05/21/1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane) 
05/21/1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN) 
05/21/1880 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer 
05/21/1888 May Aufderheide, composer 
05/21/1892 John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise) 
05/21/1898 Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)

05/21/1898 Charles H ba, Czech violinist/composer 
05/21/1898 Karel Haba, composer 
05/21/1899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)

05/21/1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon) 
05/21/1901 Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador) 
05/21/1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7) 
05/21/1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Plane

05/21/1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina 
05/21/1904 (Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist/composer 
05/21/1904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin') 
05/21/1904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jac

05/21/1904 Thomas 'Fats' Waller, US jazz pianist (Honeysuckle Rose) 
05/21/1905 Edward Lockspeiser, composer 
05/21/1909 Guy de Rothschild, banker 
05/21/1911 Andr‚ Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi‚) 
05/21/1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers) 
05/21/1916 Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)

05/21/1916 Leonard Manasseh, architect 
05/21/1917 Dennis Day, NYC, singer/actor (Jack Benny Show) 
05/21/1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes) 
05/21/1917 Raymond Burr, Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla) 
05/21/1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist 
05/21/1919 Lord Maxwell, College of Justice (Scotland)/senator 
05/21/1919 Mark Wood, bishop of Ludlow 
05/21/1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse) 
05/21/1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75) 
05/21/1924 Peggy Cass, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth) 
05/21/1924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings) 
05/21/1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer 
05/21/1926 Joseph Horovitz, composer 
05/21/1926 Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn) 
05/21/1926 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island) 
05/21/1927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls) 
05/21/1929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center) 
05/21/1929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith 
05/21/1930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University) 
05/21/1930 Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia 
05/21/1930 Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham) 
05/21/1931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster 
05/21/1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-  ) 
05/21/1932 John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham) 
05/21/1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer 
05/21/1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats) 
05/21/1934 Phillip King, British sculptor 
05/21/1935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader 
05/21/1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun 
05/21/1936 Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust) 
05/21/1937 Marsha Grant, NYC, XXX actress (Naughty Blue Knickers) 
05/21/1938 David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day) 
05/21/1939 Heinz Holliger, composer 
05/21/1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4) 
05/21/1941 Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout) 
05/21/1942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state 
05/21/1942 Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38) 
05/21/1943 Hilton Valentine, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 
05/21/1944 Janet Dailey, US, author 
05/21/1944 Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland 
05/21/1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer 
05/21/1945 Ernst Messersclmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22) 
05/21/1947 Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica) 
05/21/1948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love) 
05/21/1949 Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times) 
05/21/1949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic) 
05/21/1949 Rosalind Plowright, soprano 
05/21/1952 Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T) 
05/21/1954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975) 
05/21/1955 John Galvin, rocker (Molly Hatchet) 
05/21/1955 Stan Lynch, rocker (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers) 
05/21/1957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) 
05/21/1957 Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984) 
05/21/1958 Mike Barson, rocker (Madness) 
05/21/1959 Nick Cassavet‚s, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool) 
05/21/1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round) 
05/21/1963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976) 
05/21/1964 Annabel Schofield, Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas) 
05/21/1972 Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/21/ 987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies 
05/21/1481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies 
05/21/1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R 
05/21/1639 Giovan D 'Tommaso' Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 
05/21/1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 

05/21/1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged 
05/21/1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle 
05/21/1786 Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 
05/21/1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 
05/21/1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 
05/21/1812 Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38 
05/21/1815 Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 
05/21/1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64 
05/21/1844 Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68 
05/21/1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53 
05/21/1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73 
05/21/1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 
05/21/1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 
05/21/1897 Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77 
05/21/1919 Victor AD S‚galen, [Max An‚ly], French ship's doctor/writer, dies 
05/21/1924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14 
05/21/1926 Arthur A R Firbank, British writer (Valmouth, Prancing Nigger), dies

05/21/1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65 
05/21/1935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87 
05/21/1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 
05/21/1949 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42 
05/21/1954 Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68 
05/21/1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 6

05/21/1973 Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Giornale Guerra), dies at 79

05/21/1973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 
05/21/1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77 
05/21/1978 Joseph EA 'Jo' Spier, cartoonist/water colors painter, dies at 77 
05/21/1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61 
05/21/1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70

05/21/1987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57 
05/21/1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92 
05/21/1990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies 
05/21/1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered 
05/21/1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated 
05/21/1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59, dies 
05/21/1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies 
05/21/1992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24 
05/21/1992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies 
05/21/1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 8

05/21/1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/21/ 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor 
05/21/1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency 
05/21/1216 French crown prince Louis enters England 
05/21/1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 
05/21/1502 Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena 
05/21/1526 -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology 
05/21/1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) 
05/21/1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname 
05/21/1793 Cura‡ao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange 
05/21/1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins 
05/21/1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon 
05/21/1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia 
05/21/1832 1st Democratic party national convention 
05/21/1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii 
05/21/1856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces 
05/21/1861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital 
05/21/1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins 
05/21/1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia 
05/21/1871 -July 28) French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die 
05/21/1879 Battle of Iquiquw 
05/21/1879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete 
05/21/1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton 
05/21/1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed 
05/21/1897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40' (1 m) refractor used for 1st time 
05/21/1898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized 
05/21/1901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa 
05/21/1904 Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris 
05/21/1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago 
05/21/1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota 
05/21/1916 Britain begins 'Summer Time' (Daylight Savings Time) 
05/21/1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I 
05/21/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild 
05/21/1922 H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina 
05/21/1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 
05/21/1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million 
05/21/1924 Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun 
05/21/1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 
05/21/1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 
05/21/1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double 
05/21/1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 
05/21/1928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa 
05/21/1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC 
05/21/1930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers 
05/21/1931 Belgian govt of Jaspar falls 
05/21/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba 
05/21/1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands 
05/21/1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph 
05/21/1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees 
05/21/1940 Reynaud forms French govt 
05/21/1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor) 
05/21/1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 
05/21/1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators

05/21/1948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR) 
05/21/1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia 
05/21/1952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1 
05/21/1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal 
05/21/1953 French govt of Mayer resigns 
05/21/1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset 
05/21/1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 
05/21/1956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 
05/21/1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/21/1957 French govt of Mollet resigns 
05/21/1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island 
05/21/1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery 
05/21/1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations 
05/21/1964 Fire in W‚gimond Belgium resort, kills 19 
05/21/1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos 
05/21/1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London 
05/21/1966 Kauai King wins Kentucky Derby 
05/21/1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert 
05/21/1968 US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost 
05/21/1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting 
05/21/1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death 
05/21/1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U 
05/21/1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn 
05/21/1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm 
05/21/1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart 
05/21/1977 Fire in hotel Duke van Brabant Brussels, kills 19 
05/21/1977 Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 102nd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4) 
05/21/1977 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings 
05/21/1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England 
05/21/1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect 
05/21/1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone 
05/21/1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR 
05/21/1979 Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
05/21/1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia 
05/21/1980 'Empire Strikes Back' premeirs 
05/21/1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France 
05/21/1981 NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
05/21/1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands 
05/21/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3018 Godiva 
05/21/1982 P Wild discovers asteroid #2731 Cucula 
05/21/1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission 
05/21/1983 David Bowie's 'Let's 'Dance,' single goes #1 
05/21/1985 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3305 
05/21/1985 Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7 
05/21/1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game 
05/21/1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka 
05/21/1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama 
05/21/1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore 
05/21/1988 Risen Star wins Preakness 
05/21/1989 Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship 
05/21/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68 
05/21/1990 Last episode of 'Newhart' airs 
05/21/1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns 
05/21/1992 NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6% 
05/21/1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life 
05/21/1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andr‚s P‚rez fired 
05/21/1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen 
05/21/1994 Tabasco Cat wins 119th Preakness Stakes 
  
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