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Happy Kingda Ka Day! Happy American Red Cross Day! Happy Robert A. Good Day! Happy Afro-Colombian Day! Happy Bicycles in Cities Day! Happy Copernicus Day! Happy Ali TKO’s Henry Cooper in ‘66 Day! Happy Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War Day! Today, De Soto Dies, & is thrown into the Mississippi River! Nazi Heinrich Himmler Captured! Mexican President Venustiano Carranza Executed! Suharto Resigns!
May 21, 1543. Copernicus dies @ 70 years of age. Copernicus' major treatise - "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" - was published at the very end of his life, and he only received a copy of the printed book on the day he died - May 21, 1543. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heretical-copernicus-reburied-as-a-hero/
http://pueblodotworld.blogspot.com/2018/05/holidaze-4-revolutionary-humanists.html
On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton found the American Red Cross.
May 21, 1819. 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC. May 21, 1819, the first bicycle in the U.S. was seen in New York City. Such bicycle velocipedes or "swift walkers" had been imported that same year. Shortly thereafter, on 19 Aug 1819, the city's Common Council passed a law to "prevent the use of velocipedes in the public places and on the sidewalks of the city of New York."
On May 21, 2005, Kingda Ka was opened. The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Kingda Ka is a steel accelerator roller coaster located at United States in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. It is the world's tallest roller coaster, the world's second fastest roller coaster, and was the second strata coaster ever built. It was built by Stakotra, a subcontractor to Intamin. Riders have to be 54" in order to be able to get on the roller coaster. The train is launched by a hydraulic launch mechanism to 128 miles per hour (206 km/h) in 3.5 seconds. At the end of the launch track, the train climbs the main top hat tower, reaching a height of 456 feet (139 m) and spanning over a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) track by the end of the ride.
Robert A. Good, Born 21 May 1922; died 13 Jun 2003 at age 81. American surgeon, a pioneer of modern immunology who performed the world's first successful human bone marrow transplant (1968) from his sister to a 4-month-old baby boy with an inherited immune disorder. From age 6, Good wished to become a doctor because his father died of cancer. While a junior undergraduate he suffered but recovered from a poliolike disease. He identified the thymus and the tonsils as crucial organs of the immune system in humans. He helped establish that problems with the body's immune response were more common than had been thought and were actually a frequent basis of serious diseases. His research also led to the identification of T-cells and B-cells. In 1987 he helped establish the National Bone Marrow Registry.
May 21, 1994. South Yemen secedes from Yemen; 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
May 21, 1966. Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0EuwBkDvM Muhammad Ali was the Champ From 64 to 67 (1st reign) & 74 to 78 (2nd reign) & 78 & 79; n March 1966, Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces. He was systematically denied a boxing license in every state and stripped of his passport. As a result, he did not fight from March 1967 to October 1970—from ages 25 to almost 29—as his case worked its way through the appeals process before his conviction was overturned in 1971. During this time of inactivity, as opposition to the Vietnam War began to grow and Ali's stance gained sympathy, he spoke at colleges across the nation, criticizing the Vietnam War and advocating African American pride and racial justice.
May 21, 1970. The WUO releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique under Bernardine Dohrn's name: “Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn. I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR. This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground. All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire. Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we've been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know the lines are drawn revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way. This segment is about the assassination of Mark Clark by the Chicago police. 1969 assassination of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police. The group had effectively been underground since the previous month’s SDS meeting, which became known as the “Flint War Council.” Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Viet Cong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world. Ché taught us that "revolutionaries move like fish in the sea." The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution. The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the Sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks actively fighting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan "justice" has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students, making thousands more into revolutionaries. -The attempted genocide was a reference to several murders that took place between blacks and the police in Las Angeles 1969. Daniel Berger wrote in his book "Outlaws of America The Weather Underground and Politics of Solidarity" "Just four days after the Hampton-Clark murders,…the Los Angeles Black Panther headquarters survived an unprovoked pre-dawn attack from police that lasted five hours…But LA was the exception…[T]wenty-seven Panthers were murdered and 749 arrested in 1969 alone." The parents of "privileged" kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and the racism of this society show that it is too fucked-up. We will never live peaceably under this system. This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago. The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October's riots in Chicago have never left the country. Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We're not hiding out but we're invisible. -The riots in October are referring to the Days of Rage where Dohrn led her helmeted troops into Chicago for throwing rocks and fighting police in October 1969. There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left. We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground. -Author Dan Berger wrote in his book on the Weather Underground that this kind of “uncritical celebration of drug culture…showed that the organization was still somewhat enamored of a militartist vision of being outlaws” Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns—fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go. For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back. -All of these people were killed in the New York Townhouse Explosion by the bomb they had been building the detonated prematurely. Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people. -On June 10, 1970, the Weatherman group bombed the New York City police headquarters, just a few days after the deadline set in this artifact. Dan Berger wrote in his book, "With widespread resentment and anger at police violence — from communities of color as well as white youth — the police station was a logical choice as the most visible manifestation of a racist state. Seven police officers were cut from shattered glass in the explosion, but there were no serious injuries. Due to Weather’s commitment to engaging in armed propaganda only, no one else was injured by a Weather Underground bombing in the ensuing seven years."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpTvkpZluk
Never again will they fight alone. May 21, 1970
May 21, 1851. 1st Free Town in Amerika Day. Palenque de San Basilio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Basilio_de_Palenque
Afro-Colombian Day, or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Colombia on May 21, 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the America's, Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001. Afro-Colombian Day hopes to show the natives the importance of the Afro population and the effect they have on the history of Colombia. Afro-Colombian Day celebrates the artistic, intellectual, and soci…
May 21, 1945. Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmlercaptured.
May 21, 1542. Hernando De Soto died on this date.
May 21, 1920. Mexican President Venustiano Carranza is executed by army generals after fleeing an armed rebellion in Mexico
May 21, 1998. Indonesian president Suharto resigns after 31 years in power
May 21, 1894. 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine. His last words were reputed to be "Courage, camarades! Vive l'anarchie!"
May 21, 1832. 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore).
May 21, 1914. Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota.
May 21, 1932. White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
May 21, 1992. After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
May 21, 1927. Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 21, 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.
May 21: New uprising of Jacobins and sans-culottes in Paris; they occupy the Hôtel de Ville.
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1980 "Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back", produced by George Lucas opens in cinemas in UK and North America
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time)
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
May 21, 1980, President Carter declared a state of emergency at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. The property had been a dumping site for Hooker Chemicals and Plastics. In 1981, plans were made to evacuate 710 families. The evacuation was ordered after a study reported that 30 percent of the residents in the area had suffered chromosome damage caused by the toxic chemicals leaking through the ground into their homes.
May 21, 1936, commercial production of Lucite was begun in the U.S. by DuPont in Wilmington, Del. Lucite is their trademark name for the plastic (polymethyl methacrylate) that is crystal clear. Lucite is also highly non-conducting and has low moisture absorption. Other manufacturers in the world now use other names for this plastic, including Perspex and Plexiglass.
May 21, 1901, the first U.S. State motor car legislation was an act to regulate the speed of motor vehicles, passed in Connecticut. A speed limit was established of 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph outside, which were higher than the 8 mph city and 12mph country speeds in the bill as originally presented. Also, the car driver was required to reduce speed upon meeting or passing a horse-drawn vehicle, and if necessary, to stop to avoid frightening the horse.«
996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1703 – Daniel Defoe imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
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.
1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakartaagainst his ongoing corrupt rule
2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
Anti-Terrorism Day (India)
Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians)
Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)
Independence Day, celebrates the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006, celebrated until the next day. (Montenegro)
Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault;
On May 21, 2004
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism of House of Orange
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
1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet
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 University
1981 Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral
1983 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1
1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
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%.
2016 Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportably killed by a US drone in Pakistan
1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
Biggie Smalls was born today. Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972)
http://pueblodotworld.blogspot.com/2018/05/holidaze-4-revolutionary-humanists.html
May 21, 1543. Copernicus dies @ 70 years of age. Copernicus' major treatise - "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" - was published at the very end of his life, and he only received a copy of the printed book on the day he died - May 21, 1543. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heretical-copernicus-reburied-as-a-hero/
http://pueblodotworld.blogspot.com/2018/05/holidaze-4-revolutionary-humanists.html
On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton found the American Red Cross.
May 21, 1819. 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC. May 21, 1819, the first bicycle in the U.S. was seen in New York City. Such bicycle velocipedes or "swift walkers" had been imported that same year. Shortly thereafter, on 19 Aug 1819, the city's Common Council passed a law to "prevent the use of velocipedes in the public places and on the sidewalks of the city of New York."
On May 21, 2005, Kingda Ka was opened. The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Kingda Ka is a steel accelerator roller coaster located at United States in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. It is the world's tallest roller coaster, the world's second fastest roller coaster, and was the second strata coaster ever built. It was built by Stakotra, a subcontractor to Intamin. Riders have to be 54" in order to be able to get on the roller coaster. The train is launched by a hydraulic launch mechanism to 128 miles per hour (206 km/h) in 3.5 seconds. At the end of the launch track, the train climbs the main top hat tower, reaching a height of 456 feet (139 m) and spanning over a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) track by the end of the ride.
Robert A. Good, Born 21 May 1922; died 13 Jun 2003 at age 81. American surgeon, a pioneer of modern immunology who performed the world's first successful human bone marrow transplant (1968) from his sister to a 4-month-old baby boy with an inherited immune disorder. From age 6, Good wished to become a doctor because his father died of cancer. While a junior undergraduate he suffered but recovered from a poliolike disease. He identified the thymus and the tonsils as crucial organs of the immune system in humans. He helped establish that problems with the body's immune response were more common than had been thought and were actually a frequent basis of serious diseases. His research also led to the identification of T-cells and B-cells. In 1987 he helped establish the National Bone Marrow Registry.
May 21, 1994. South Yemen secedes from Yemen; 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
May 21, 1966. Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0EuwBkDvM Muhammad Ali was the Champ From 64 to 67 (1st reign) & 74 to 78 (2nd reign) & 78 & 79; n March 1966, Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces. He was systematically denied a boxing license in every state and stripped of his passport. As a result, he did not fight from March 1967 to October 1970—from ages 25 to almost 29—as his case worked its way through the appeals process before his conviction was overturned in 1971. During this time of inactivity, as opposition to the Vietnam War began to grow and Ali's stance gained sympathy, he spoke at colleges across the nation, criticizing the Vietnam War and advocating African American pride and racial justice.
May 21, 1970. The WUO releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique under Bernardine Dohrn's name: “Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn. I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR. This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground. All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire. Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we've been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know the lines are drawn revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way. This segment is about the assassination of Mark Clark by the Chicago police. 1969 assassination of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police. The group had effectively been underground since the previous month’s SDS meeting, which became known as the “Flint War Council.” Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Viet Cong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world. Ché taught us that "revolutionaries move like fish in the sea." The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution. The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the Sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks actively fighting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan "justice" has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students, making thousands more into revolutionaries. -The attempted genocide was a reference to several murders that took place between blacks and the police in Las Angeles 1969. Daniel Berger wrote in his book "Outlaws of America The Weather Underground and Politics of Solidarity" "Just four days after the Hampton-Clark murders,…the Los Angeles Black Panther headquarters survived an unprovoked pre-dawn attack from police that lasted five hours…But LA was the exception…[T]wenty-seven Panthers were murdered and 749 arrested in 1969 alone." The parents of "privileged" kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and the racism of this society show that it is too fucked-up. We will never live peaceably under this system. This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago. The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October's riots in Chicago have never left the country. Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We're not hiding out but we're invisible. -The riots in October are referring to the Days of Rage where Dohrn led her helmeted troops into Chicago for throwing rocks and fighting police in October 1969. There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left. We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground. -Author Dan Berger wrote in his book on the Weather Underground that this kind of “uncritical celebration of drug culture…showed that the organization was still somewhat enamored of a militartist vision of being outlaws” Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns—fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go. For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back. -All of these people were killed in the New York Townhouse Explosion by the bomb they had been building the detonated prematurely. Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people. -On June 10, 1970, the Weatherman group bombed the New York City police headquarters, just a few days after the deadline set in this artifact. Dan Berger wrote in his book, "With widespread resentment and anger at police violence — from communities of color as well as white youth — the police station was a logical choice as the most visible manifestation of a racist state. Seven police officers were cut from shattered glass in the explosion, but there were no serious injuries. Due to Weather’s commitment to engaging in armed propaganda only, no one else was injured by a Weather Underground bombing in the ensuing seven years."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpTvkpZluk
Never again will they fight alone. May 21, 1970
May 21, 1851. 1st Free Town in Amerika Day. Palenque de San Basilio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Basilio_de_Palenque
Afro-Colombian Day, or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Colombia on May 21, 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the America's, Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001. Afro-Colombian Day hopes to show the natives the importance of the Afro population and the effect they have on the history of Colombia. Afro-Colombian Day celebrates the artistic, intellectual, and soci…
May 21, 1945. Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmlercaptured.
May 21, 1542. Hernando De Soto died on this date.
May 21, 1920. Mexican President Venustiano Carranza is executed by army generals after fleeing an armed rebellion in Mexico
May 21, 1998. Indonesian president Suharto resigns after 31 years in power
May 21, 1894. 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine. His last words were reputed to be "Courage, camarades! Vive l'anarchie!"
May 21, 1832. 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore).
May 21, 1914. Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota.
May 21, 1932. White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
May 21, 1992. After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
May 21, 1927. Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 21, 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.
May 21: New uprising of Jacobins and sans-culottes in Paris; they occupy the Hôtel de Ville.
xxx
1980 "Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back", produced by George Lucas opens in cinemas in UK and North America
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time)
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
May 21, 1980, President Carter declared a state of emergency at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. The property had been a dumping site for Hooker Chemicals and Plastics. In 1981, plans were made to evacuate 710 families. The evacuation was ordered after a study reported that 30 percent of the residents in the area had suffered chromosome damage caused by the toxic chemicals leaking through the ground into their homes.
May 21, 1936, commercial production of Lucite was begun in the U.S. by DuPont in Wilmington, Del. Lucite is their trademark name for the plastic (polymethyl methacrylate) that is crystal clear. Lucite is also highly non-conducting and has low moisture absorption. Other manufacturers in the world now use other names for this plastic, including Perspex and Plexiglass.
May 21, 1901, the first U.S. State motor car legislation was an act to regulate the speed of motor vehicles, passed in Connecticut. A speed limit was established of 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph outside, which were higher than the 8 mph city and 12mph country speeds in the bill as originally presented. Also, the car driver was required to reduce speed upon meeting or passing a horse-drawn vehicle, and if necessary, to stop to avoid frightening the horse.«
996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1703 – Daniel Defoe imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
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.
1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakartaagainst his ongoing corrupt rule
2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
Anti-Terrorism Day (India)
Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians)
Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)
Independence Day, celebrates the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006, celebrated until the next day. (Montenegro)
Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault;
On May 21, 2004
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism of House of Orange
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
1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet
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 University
1981 Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral
1983 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1
1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
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%.
2016 Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportably killed by a US drone in Pakistan
1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
Biggie Smalls was born today. Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972)
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