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| Birthday May 21, 0427 Plato (Aristocles), in Athens(?) (427 BC) |
| Birthday May 21, 1471 Albrecht Durer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker |
| Birthday May 21, 1527 Philip II, king of Spain (1556-98) and Portugal (1580-98) |
| Birthday May 21, 1584 A. Durer |
| Birthday May 21, 1688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock) |
| Birthday May 21, 1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister, prison reformer, nurse |
| Birthday May 21, 1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, lawyer, author (Nobel 1902) |
| Birthday May 21, 1844 Henri Rousseau, French na‹ve painter |
| Birthday May 21, 1851 Leon Bourgeois, French politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) |
| Birthday May 21, 1860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph |
| Birthday May 21, 1865 C.J. Thomsen, Danish archeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages |
| Birthday May 21, 1878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer |
| Birthday May 21, 1898 Armand Hammer, millionaire industrialist |
| Birthday May 21, 1904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin') |
| Birthday May 21, 1904 Robert Montgomery, Actor |
| Birthday May 21, 1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers) |
| Birthday May 21, 1917 Dennis Day, singer |
| Birthday May 21, 1917 Raymond Burr, Actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides) |
| Birthday May 21, 1921 Andrey Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75) |
| Birthday May 21, 1952 Mr T |
| History May 21, 1539 Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed |
| History May 21, 1542 De Soto dies in the American wilderness |
| History May 21, 1758 Lenape Indians abduct Mary Campbell from western Pennsylvania |
| History May 21, 1832 1st Democratic party natl convention |
| History May 21, 1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii |
| History May 21, 1856 Lawrence - Kans captured - sacked by pro-slavery forces |
| History May 21, 1863 The Siege of Port Hudson begins |
| History May 21, 1881 American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton |
| History May 21, 1897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40-inch refractor is used for 1st time |
| History May 21, 1901 Connecticut enacts first speed-limit law |
| History May 21, 1904 FIFA - soccer's intl governing body - is formed |
| History May 21, 1910 Serialization of Colette's The Vagabond begins |
| History May 21, 1911 Second Moroccan Crisis |
| History May 21, 1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million |
| History May 21, 1924 Leopold and Loeb gain national attention |
| History May 21, 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris - after 1st solo across Atlantic |
| History May 21, 1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris |
| History May 21, 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed - NYC |
| History May 21, 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed - AE Putnam |
| History May 21, 1932 Earhart completes transatlantic flight |
| History May 21, 1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph |
| History May 21, 1940 Nazis kill unfit people in East Prussia |
| History May 21, 1941 1st American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor) |
| History May 21, 1942 Thousands of Jews die in Nazi gas chambers; IG Farber sets up factory |
| History May 21, 1955 Chuck Berry records Maybellene |
| History May 21, 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset |
| History May 21, 1960 Huge earthquake hits Chile |
| History May 21, 1969 Military spokesman defends Hamburger Hill |
| History May 21, 1978 Nancy Lopez wins her first Coca-Cola Classic |
| History May 21, 1988 Gorbachev consolidates power |
| History May 21, 1992 Long Island Lolita is arrested |
| History May 21, 1996 A veteran's flashback defense doesn't hold up in court |
| History May 21, 1999 Soap star Susan Lucci wins first Emmy after 19 nominations |
| History May 21, 2000 Garfield's spine on display at museum |