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Today in History: Born on May 21

1813

Richard Wagner, German composer.

1828

Albrecht von Graefe, German eye surgeon, founder of modern opthamology.

1844

Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter.

1859

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series.

1907

Sir Laurence Olivier, actor.

1920

Thomas Gold, astronomer.

1927

Peter Matthiessen, writer.

1928

T Boone Pickens, oil magnate and financier who developed a reputation as a corporate raider in the 1980s.

1930

Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians to win public office in the United States, a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

1942

Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, infamous as Unabomber terrorist.

1943

Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist who won of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Iconic MiG-21 “Fishbed”

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‘Blood, Oil, and the Axis’ Revisits a Forgotten World War II Campaign in Iraq

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Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’

Asia

How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had

Aviation & Spaceflight

The Crazy Contraption That Almost Killed Neil Armstrong

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