On May 21st
- Events
- 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset.
- 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.
- Births
- 1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister, prison reformer, nurse.
- 1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers).
- Deaths
- 1935 Jane Addams, American social activist and author, co-founder of ACLU (1931 1st woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 65.
- 1984 Andrea Leeds [Antoinette Lees], American film actress dies of cancer at 69.
- Events
- 1904 FIFA - soccer's intl governing body - is formed.
- 1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death, but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
- Births
- 1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers).
- 1471 Albrecht Durer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker.
- 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.
- 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.
- Events
- 1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million.
- 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.
- Births
- 1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, in West Allis, Wisconsin, American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal) (d. 1994).
- 1904 Robert Montgomery, actor.
- Deaths
- 1935 Jane Addams, American social activist and author, co-founder of ACLU (1931 1st woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 65.
- 1984 Andrea Leeds [Antoinette Lees], American film actress dies of cancer at 69.
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