On May 21st
- Events
- 2019 Oldest and most distant gravitational waves detected from collision of two black holes with first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, 7 billion light years away.
- 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris - after 1st solo across Atlantic.
- Births
- 1904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin').
- 1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers).
- Deaths
- 2018 Clint Walker [Norman Eugene Walker], American actor and singer who played cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series Cheyenne from 1955 to 1963 dies of congestive heart failure at 90.
- 1935 Jane Addams, American social activist and author, co-founder of ACLU (1931 1st woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 65.
- Events
- 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset.
- 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed - AE Putnam.
- Births
- 1688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock).
- 1471 Albrecht Durer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker.
- Deaths
- 1984 Andrea Leeds [Antoinette Lees], American film actress dies of cancer at 69.
- 1935 Jane Addams, American social activist and author, co-founder of ACLU (1931 1st woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 65.
- Events
- 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed - NYC.
- 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset.
- Births
- 1471 Albrecht Durer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker.
- 1917 Raymond Burr, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canadian actor (Perry Mason, Ironside). (d. 1993)
- Deaths
- 2005 Howard Morris, American actor, comedian, and director who was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass, and some voices for TV shows such as The Flintstones (1962-1965), The Jetsons (1962-1987), dies of congestive heart failure, at the age of 85.
- 1913 John Garfield, American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters, dies of long term heart problems at 39.
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