This day in history for May 21st:
0996 -- Sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor.
1471 -- King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward IV took the throne.
1542 -- Hernando de Soto died along the Mississippi River while searching for gold.
1602 -- Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1819 -- 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC.
1832 -- 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore, MD)
1840 -- New Zealand became a British colony.
1881 -- American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton.
1891 -- Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fought for 61 rounds only to end in a draw.
1906 -- Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars.
1914 -- Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota.
1916 -- Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 -- Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WWI.
1925 -- Canadians allow to beer sales.
1934 -- Oskaloosa IA, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens.
1944 -- Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots".
1954 -- Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.
1961 -- Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Al.
1969 -- Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death.
1982 -- British troops lands on Falkland Islands.
1991 -- In Madras, India, the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a bouquet of flowers that contained a bomb.
1998 -- An expelled student, Kipland Kinkel, in Springfield, OR, killed 2 people and wounded 25 others with a semi-automatic rifle. Police also discovered that the boy had killed his parents before the rampage.
1998 -- In Miami, FL, five abortion clinics were hit by an butyric acid-attacker.
I hope everyone enjoys this Day in History!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz*
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