Notable Historical Events on May 21st
May 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
143 |
Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed |
685 |
Battle of Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians |
878 |
Syracuse 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 |
Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III as Holy Roman Emperor |
1040 |
King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency |
1216 |
French crown prince Louis enters England |
1260 |
Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao. |
1420 |
Treaty of Troyes following Englsh victory at Agincourt: Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France |
1471 |
King Edward IV enters London |
1502 |
Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena |
1526 |
-Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology |
1602 |
Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) |
1674 |
General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland |
1683 |
West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname |
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. |
1793 |
Curacao Island Council forbids criticism of House of Orange |
1804 |
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins |
1809 |
Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Karl beats Napoleon |
1819 |
1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC |
1832 |
1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore) |
1840 |
New Zealand became a British colony |
1840 |
Captain William Hobson proclaims British sovereignty over New Zealand; the North Island by treaty and the South Island by 'discovery' |
1846 |
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii |
1854 |
Frederic Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, and five other Provencal poets found Félibrige, a literary and cultural association |
1856 |
Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces |
1861 |
Richmond, Va, is designated Confederate Capital |
1863 |
Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins |
1864 |
Gen David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia |
1864 |
Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning. |
1866 |
1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days |
1871 |
-July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die |
1878 |
4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25 |
1879 |
Battle of Iquiquw |
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 |
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton |
1881 |
US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms |
1886 |
14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45 |
1891 |
Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds |
1892 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan |
1894 |
22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine. |
1897 |
Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time |
1898 |
US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized |
1904 |
Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris |
1904 |
France recalls its ambassador to the Vatican to protest the Pope's attempt to discipline two French bishops; this is yet another incident driving France and the Catholic Church apart |
1906 |
Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars |
1906 |
The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation |
1907 |
32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4 |
1908 |
1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago |
1908 |
Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
1911 |
French troop enter Fez in Morocco to quell anti-European agitation |
1914 |
39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8 |
1914 |
Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota |
1916 |
Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time) |
1917 |
Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I |
1917 |
The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality |
1918 |
US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote |
1921 |
Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co |
1922 |
"On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize |
1922 |
Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000 |
1922 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) |
1922 |
Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million |
1924 |
Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun |
1925 |
Canadians allow to sell beer |
1925 |
George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt |
1925 |
Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole |
1926 |
White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double |
1927 |
Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after first solo air crossing of Atlantic |
1929 |
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC |
1929 |
Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris |
1930 |
Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader |
1930 |
NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers |
1931 |
Belgian government of Jaspar falls |
1932 |
1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England) |
1932 |
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland |
1933 |
Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph |
1934 |
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint 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. |
1938 |
Don Bradman scores 143 Austalia v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours |
1940 |
AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees |
1940 |
Allied counter attack at Atrecht, northern France |
1940 |
Reynaud forms French government |
1941 |
SS Robin Moore is first US ship sunk by a U-boat |
1941 |
German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete |
1941 |
Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp |
1942 |
Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia |
1943 |
Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators |
1944 |
Hitler begins attack on British/US "terror pilots" |
1945 |
Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets |
1945 |
Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi SS captured |
1946 |
Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos |
1948 |
NY Yank Joe DiMaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR) |
1950 |
Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia |
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. |
1952 |
Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1 |
1952 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal |
1953 |
French government of Mayer resigns |
1954 |
Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated |
1955 |
"House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances |
1955 |
1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset |
1955 |
WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms |
1956 |
US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll |
1956 |
WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
French government of Mollet resigns |
1958 |
Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
1959 |
"Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances |
1959 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens |
1960 |
86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6 |
1961 |
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery |
1962 |
3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games |
1964 |
1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) |
1964 |
Fire in Belgium resort kills 19 |
1964 |
US begin intelligence flights above Laos |
1966 |
"Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82 |
1966 |
"Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances |
1966 |
92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4 |
1966 |
Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97 |
1966 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
1966 |
A loyalist group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1967 |
"Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs |
1967 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1968 |
Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game |
1968 |
Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
1968 |
WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores |
1969 |
Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet |
1969 |
Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel |
1969 |
After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets |
1969 |
Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. |
1970 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1971 |
Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens |
1971 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn |
1972 |
"Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance |
1972 |
"Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs |
1972 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
1972 |
Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal. |
1972 |
The Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) kidnap and shoot dead William Best (19), a member of the Royal Irish Rangers |
1975 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede |
1975 |
Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm |
1975 |
Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart |
1977 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs |
1977 |
103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4 |
1977 |
Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC |
1977 |
Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19 |
1977 |
SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings |
1978 |
118 Unification church couples wed in England |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
1978 |
Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect |
1979 |
Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone |
1979 |
National Volksraad installed in Namibia |
1979 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1 |
1980 |
"Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back" opens in cinemas in UK and North America |
1980 |
Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt |
1980 |
Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy |
1981 |
Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France |
1981 |
Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA |
1981 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1 |
1981 |
Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral |
1982 |
British troops land on Falkland Islands |
1983 |
"Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63 |
1983 |
109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4 |
1983 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission |
1983 |
David Bowie's "Let's "Dance" single goes #1 |
1986 |
Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1987 |
Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka |
1987 |
Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama |
1988 |
"Da'Butt" by EU hits #35 |
1988 |
"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99 |
1988 |
114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2 |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68 |
1990 |
Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV |
1991 |
Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns |
1992 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1992 |
NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6% |
1993 |
Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe |
1993 |
Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life |
1993 |
Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia |
1993 |
Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired |
1994 |
"Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs |
1994 |
120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4 |
1994 |
Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning |
1994 |
South Yemen secedes from Yemen |
1995 |
chris johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic |
1996 |
Blackout in many areas of Queens NY |
1996 |
Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs |
1996 |
Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win |
1996 |
The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed. |
1997 |
Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time |
1998 |
In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker. |
1998 |
Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns. |
1999 |
All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history |
2001 |
French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. |
2001 |
The Enron Corporation's power generating venture in India, the Dabhol Power Company, serves formal notice that it will terminate its power supply contract and pull out |
2003 |
An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people. |
2003 |
38th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney wins |
2004 |
Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year. |
2004 |
Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault |
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 |
Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper, is badly damaged by fire in Greenwich, England. |
2011 |
137th Preakness: Jesús Castañón aboard Shackleford wins in 1:56.47 |
2012 |
120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen |
2012 |
13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania |
2013 |
Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One |
2014 |
José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau |
2016 |
Secret Service Shoots Man Near White House |
2016 |
Flight data showed smoke alerts on EgyptAir plane before crash -CNN |
2016 |
Oklahoma governor vetoes bill to jail abortion doctors |
2017 |
13-1 shot Cloud Computing springs upset in Preakness |
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