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- 0685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
- 0878 Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
- 0879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state
- 0996 Otto the Great's Saxon grandson, now 16, is crowned Otto III May 21 at Rome
- 0996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
- 0996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned 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 Chinese 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 were imprisoned by order of the high Chinese chancellor, Jia Sidao.
- 1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
- 1471 King Edwards IV enters London
- 1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
- 1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator Joo da Nova.
- 1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
- 1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
- 1554 Royal Charter of Derby School at Derby, England
- 1602 Martha's Vineyard first sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
- 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
- 1674 the nobility elects John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- 1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
- 1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was 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 Curaçao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
- 1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
- 1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
- 1819 The first bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
- 1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
- 1832 The first Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
- 1840 New Zealand became a British colony
- 1846 The first steamship arrives in Hawaii
- 1850 Washington Navy Yard begins work on first castings for the Dahlgren guns
- 1851 Abolition of slavery in Colombia, South America.
- 1856 Lawrence KS captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
- 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- 1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union
- 1861 Richmond VA is designated Confederate Capital
- 1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
- 1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
- 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.
- 1871 French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
- 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 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
- 1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed
- 1891 Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
- 1894 22-year-old French Anarchist mile Henry is executed by guillotine.
- 1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1 meter) refractor used for first time
- 1900 Russia annexes Manchuria
- 1904 Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris.
- 1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France
- 1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
- 1908 The first horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
- 1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
- 1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
- 1917 Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
- 1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WWI
- 1917 SS City of Corinth, sunk by torpedo by the german submarine UB31 in the English Channel 12 miles SW of the Lizard penisular, Cornwall while en-route from Singapore to London with a general cargo
- 1917 USS Ericsson fires first torpedo of war
- 1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley CO
- 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is first cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
- 1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
- 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."
- 1925 Canadians allow to beer sales
- 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
- 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
- 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic
- 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
- 1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
- 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.
- 1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
- 1934 Oskaloosa IA, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens
- 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each 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 became 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.
- 1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours
- 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
- 1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
- 1940 Reynaud forms French Government
- 1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
- 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
- 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.
- 1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
- 1944 Accidental explosion on board a LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor and the resulting fire and other explosions sink 5 LSTs and 1 other LST.
- 1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
- 1945 Australia Services win first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
- 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
- 1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
- 1945 United States screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
- 1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
- 1951 Chinese offensive in Korea collapses
- 1951 opening of the Ninth Street Show otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
- 1953 French Government of Mayer resigns
- 1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
- 1956 Nuclear testing: Shot Redwing-Cherokee is successfully detonated at Bikini Atoll at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. With a yield of 3.8 megatons, it is the first aircraft deliverable hydrogen bomb tested by the United States.
- 1956 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
- 1958 United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
- 1959 Visitor posting - On this day, Bill A. Netter was born in Evanston, Illinois, and given up to, "The Cradle", Adoption Agency. He was moved by his new parents to Michigan three months later, and has resided there ever since! - USA [email protected]
- 1960 Visitor posting - Daniel Castillo was born
- 1960 Visitor posting - Emily Davis was born - USA
- 1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
- 1964 Fire in Wégimond Belgium resort, kills 19
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Four Pennies - Juliet
- 1964 The first nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
- 1964 The initiation of the standing carrier presence at Yankee Station in the South China Sea.
- 1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
- 1966 "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
- 1966 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London
- 1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
- 1968 The nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion, with a crew of 99, is reported missing It is later found on the ocean floor off the coast of Azores
- 1968 US nuclear-powered sub (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
- 1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
- 1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
- 1972 Michelangelo's Piet, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, is damaged by a vandal.
- 1973 Visitor posting - T-ata Myeshia DeHart, only child of Wayne & Juanita DeHart, was born!!! - USA
- 1975 Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
- 1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission
- 1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
- 1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances
- 1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC
- 1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
- 1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
- 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
- 1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Fransisco mayor Moscone
- 1979 Elton John becomes the first western rock 'n roll artist to perform live in USSR
- 1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
- 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
- 1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premiers
- 1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
- 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is first woman to graduate from US service academy
- 1980 Star Wars movie "The Empire Strikes Back" premieres
- 1980 The Empire Strikes Back premieres.
- 1981 François Mitterrand becomes President of France
- 1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
- 1981 Pierre Mauroy becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
- 1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
- 1983 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1
- 1985 Visitor posting - Tim Machado was born!!! - Canada
- 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel 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 Dedication of the Australian-Hellenic Memorial on Anzac Parade by the Prime Minister, the Hon Bob Hawke, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, Mr Yannis Haralambopoulos
- 1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
- 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg - With A Little Help From My Friends
- 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV; It was all a dream
- 1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
- 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.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Ivette's M. Birthday!!! - USA
- 1992 New Jersey 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 vs Australia
- 1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andrés Pérez fired
- 1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
- 1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
- 1994 Visitor posting - Khadeja Domyneeq Lewis is born - USA
- 1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
- 1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
- 1994 The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
- 1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
- 1996 The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
- 1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
- 1998 At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a gun to school, shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home.
- 1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- 1998 Soeharto, Indonesian dictator who had been ruling for 32 years, resigned.
- 2000 A chartered British Aerospace Jetstream 31 crashes near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killing 19.
- 2001 French Taubira law which officially recognize 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.
- 2004 Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
- 2005 In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.
- 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 One of the best-preserved clippers in existence, the Cutty Sark, while preserved in Greenwich, is severely damaged by fire.
- 2010 Florida woman sent the required $48 renewal fee to the state's DMV, but received a driver's license that included the words "Eat Ass" where her street address should have been. But to add insult to insult, when she complained about the error, she was told that the DMV would be happy to replace the offending card, if she were willing to pay another fee. - USA
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