| 996 |
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Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor. |
| 1471 |
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King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne. |
| 1506 |
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Christopher Columbus dies. |
| 1536 |
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The Reformation is officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 1620 |
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Present-day Martha's Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold. |
| 1790 |
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Paris is divided into 48 zones. |
| 1832 |
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The Democratic party holds its first national convention. |
| 1856 |
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Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces. |
| 1863 |
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The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins. |
| 1881 |
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The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton. |
| 1927 |
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Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic. |
| 1940 |
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British forces attack German General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France. |
| 1941 |
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The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat. |
| 1951 |
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The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea. |
| 1961 |
|
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 1970 |
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The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. |
| 1991 |
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In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. |
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Born on May 21 |
| 427 BC |
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Plato, Greek philosopher. |
| 1527 |
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Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal. |
| 1844 |
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Henri Rousseau, French painter. |
| 1856 |
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Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA. |
| 1860 |
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Willem Einthoven, physiologist, inventor of the electrocardiogram. |
| 1867 |
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Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist. |
| 1878 |
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer. |
| 1898 |
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Armand Hammer, American entrepeneur and industrialist. |
| 1902 |
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Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect. |
| 1909 |
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Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist. |
| 1917 |
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Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason). |
| 1921 |
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Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist. |
| 1926 |
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Robert Creeley, poet. |
| 1944 |
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Mary Bourke Robinson, first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997). |
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