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What happend on 21. May in History
In our data base we found 336 events happened on 21. May:
• 120_bc: Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC) [category: Births]
• 293: Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. [category: Events]
• 878: Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. [category: Events]
• 879: Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. [category: Events]
• 987: Louis V of France (b. 967) [category: Deaths]
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• 996: Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1085: Helsingborg is found. [category: Events]
• 1237: Olaf the Black, King of Mann and the Isles [category: Deaths]
• 1254: Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228) [category: Deaths]
• 1349: Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. [category: Events]
• 1471: Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528) [category: Births]
• 1471: Henry VI of England (b. 1421) [category: Deaths]
• 1481: Christian I of Denmark (b. 1426) [category: Deaths]
• 1502: The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova. [category: Events]
• 1512: Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452) [category: Deaths]
• 1524: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier (b. 1443) [category: Deaths]
• 1527: Philip II of Spain (d. 1598) [category: Births]
• 1542: Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer, first person to cross the Mississippi River (b. 1496 or 1497) [category: Deaths]
• 1554: Queen Mary I grants a royal Charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. [category: Events]
• 1607: John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549) [category: Deaths]
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• 1639: Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568) [category: Deaths]
• 1647: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet (b. 1581) [category: Deaths]
• 1650: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish nobleman and soldier (b. 1612) [category: Deaths]
• 1653: Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1697) [category: Births]
• 1664: Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754) [category: Births]
• 1664: Elizabeth Poole, English-American settler and founder of Taunton, Massachusetts (b. 1588) [category: Deaths]
• 1670: Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586) [category: Deaths]
• 1674: The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. [category: Events]
• 1686: Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602) [category: Deaths]
• 1688: Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744) [category: Births]
• 1690: John Eliot, English missionary (b. 1604) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646) [category: Deaths]
• 1724: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661) [category: Deaths]
• 1725: The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. [category: Events]
• 1742: Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664) [category: Deaths]
• 1755: Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810) [category: Births]
• 1758: Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned some six and a half years later. [category: Events]
• 1763: Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1771: Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722) [category: Deaths]
• 1775: Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier, and academic (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1780: Elizabeth Fry, English philanthropist and reformer (d. 1845) [category: Births]
• 1786: Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician (d. 1858) [category: Births]
• 1790: Thomas Warton, English poet (b. 1728) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) [category: Births]
• 1799: Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847) [category: Births]
• 1809: The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. [category: Events]
• 1827: William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899) [category: Births]
• 1832: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1835: František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1843: Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1844: Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian vulcanologist (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1851: Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1851: Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. [category: Events]
• 1853: Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1856: José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1856: Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. [category: Events]
• 1860: Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1862: John Drew, Irish-American actor (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1863: American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. [category: Events]
• 1863: Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. [category: Events]
• 1864: Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1864: Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. [category: Events]
• 1871: French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. [category: Events]
• 1871: Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi. [category: Events]
• 1873: Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1878: Glenn Curtiss, American aviation engineer (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1879: Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. [category: Events]
• 1880: Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1881: The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.. [category: Events]
• 1884: Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1885: Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1894: August Kundt, German physicist (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. [category: Events]
• 1895: Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Armand Hammer, American businessman and physician (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1898: Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and jurist (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1901: Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1901: Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1901: Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1901: Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist and playwright (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1901: Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1902: Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian architect and designer, designed the Ameritrust Tower (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1903: Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1904: Fats Waller, American singer, pianist, and composer (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1904: Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1904: The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. [category: Events]
• 1907: John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1909: François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1911: Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. [category: Events]
• 1912: Akiva Vroman, Dutch-Israeli geologist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1912: John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1912: Monty Stratton, American baseball player (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1913: Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and educator (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1915: Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1916: Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1917: Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1917: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces. [category: Events]
• 1917: The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people and leading to only fatality (due to heart attack). [category: Events]
• 1918: Dennis Day, American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1919: Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Anthony Steel, English actor (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1920: Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1920: Forrest White, American businessman, co-founder of the Music Man Company (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1920: Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: A.S. Douglas, English computer scientist and educator (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1921: Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1923: Ara Parseghian, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1923: Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Evelyn Ward, American actress [category: Births]
• 1923: Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1924: Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1924: University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". [category: Events]
• 1925: Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese scientist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1927: Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d, 2012) [category: Births]
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1928: Tom Donahue, American disc jockey, producer, and promoter (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1929: Alice Drummond, American actress [category: Births]
• 1929: Larance Marable, American drummer [category: Births]
• 1929: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1930: Tommy Bryant, American bassist (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1932: Billy Wright, American singer and fiddler (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1932: Marcel Jacques Boulenger, French author and fencer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1933: Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Yevgeni Minaev, Soviet weightlifter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1934: Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1934: Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. [category: Events]
• 1935: Terry Lightfoot, English clarinettist and bandleader [category: Births]
• 1935: Jane Addams, American social worker, activist, and author, co-founder of Hull House, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1936: Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. [category: Events]
• 1937: A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1938: Lee "Shot" Williams, American singer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1939: Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor [category: Births]
• 1939: The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa. [category: Events]
• 1941: Bobby Cox, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1941: Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Steeleye Span, The Watersons, Waterson:Carthy, Brass Monkey, and Blue Murder) [category: Births]
• 1941: Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (The Isley Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1942: Danny Ongais, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1943: Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter (The Animals) [category: Births]
• 1944: Marcie Blane, American singer [category: Births]
• 1944: Mary Robinson, Irish politician, 7th President of Ireland [category: Births]
• 1945: Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut [category: Births]
• 1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [category: Events]
• 1947: Bill Champlin, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Chicago and Sons of Champlin) [category: Births]
• 1947: Jonathan Hyde, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Denis MacShane, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Elizabeth Buchan, English writer [category: Births]
• 1948: Leo Sayer, English singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1949: Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Al Franken, American actor and politician [category: Births]
• 1951: The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. [category: Events]
• 1952: Mr. T, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Janice Karman, American voice actress, singer, and producer, co-owner of Bagdasarian Productions [category: Births]
• 1954: Marc Ribot, American singer, musician, and composer (Bar Kokhba Sextet) [category: Births]
• 1954: Stephen Betts, Scottish keyboardist, songwriter, and producer (Associates) [category: Births]
• 1955: Paul Barber, English field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1955: Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) [category: Births]
• 1956: Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Bruce Buffer, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1957: James Bailey, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Judge Reinhold, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Nadine Dorries, English politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Alexander Vertinsky, Russian actor, singer, composer, and poet (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Jefery Levy, American director [category: Births]
• 1958: Naeem Khan, Indian fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1959: Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1960: Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1960: Jeffrey Toobin, American writer and analyst [category: Births]
• 1960: Kent Hrbek, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Mohanlal, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1961: American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. [category: Events]
• 1962: David Crumb, American composer [category: Births]
• 1962: Richard Caputo, American author [category: Births]
• 1963: Dave Specter, American guitarist [category: Births]
• 1963: Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (My Bloody Valentine) [category: Births]
• 1963: Richard Appel, American writer [category: Births]
• 1964: Carolyn Lawrence, American actress [category: Births]
• 1964: Danny Bailey, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Danny Lee Clark, American football player [category: Births]
• 1964: Nancy Benoit, American wrestler and agent (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1964: James Franck, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Geoffrey de Havilland, English aircraft designer and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Lisa Edelstein, American actress [category: Births]
• 1966: The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1967: Blake Schwarzenbach, American singer and musician (Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, The Thorns of Life, and forgetters) [category: Births]
• 1967: Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1968: Ilmar Raag, Estonian film director [category: Births]
• 1968: Julie Vega, Filipino actress, model, and singer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1968: Matthias Ungemach, German rower [category: Births]
• 1969: George LeMieux, American politician [category: Births]
• 1969: Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian-Georgian journalist [category: Births]
• 1969: Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. [category: Events]
• 1970: Carl Veart, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Dorsey Levens, American football player [category: Births]
• 1970: E. L. Grant Watson, English biologist and writer (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician and producer (CSS) [category: Births]
• 1972: Alesha Oreskovich, American model [category: Births]
• 1972: Brett Tucker, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1972: The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (Junior M.A.F.I.A. and The Commission) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1972: Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. [category: Events]
• 1973: Noel Fielding, English actor, writer, and musician [category: Births]
• 1973: Stewart Cink, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1973: Vaughn Monroe, American baritone singer, trumpeter, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Fairuza Balk, American actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Havoc, American rapper, musician, and producer (Mobb Deep) [category: Births]
• 1975: Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets) [category: Births]
• 1976: Aditi Gowitrikar, Indian model, actress, and physician [category: Births]
• 1976: Deron Miller, American singer-songwriter and musician (CKY, World Under Blood, and Foreign Objects) [category: Births]
• 1976: The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. 29 are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history. [category: Events]
• 1977: Michael Fuß, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Quinton Fortune, South African footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Ricky Williams, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Days Grace and Big Dirty Band) [category: Births]
• 1978: Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Briana Banks, German-American porn actress and model [category: Births]
• 1979: Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Gaspard Augé, French DJ (Justice) [category: Births]
• 1979: James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist [category: Births]
• 1979: Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1979: Scott Smith, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1979: White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. [category: Events]
• 1980: Chris Raab, American actor and stuntman [category: Births]
• 1980: Gotye, Australian singer-songwriter and musician (The Basics) [category: Births]
• 1980: Morgan Benoit, American actor and martial artist [category: Births]
• 1981: Craig Anderson, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Edson Buddle, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Josh Hamilton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Maximilian Mutzke, German singer-songwriter and drummer [category: Births]
• 1981: Patsy O'Hara, Irish activist (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Raymond McCreesh, Irish activist (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison. [category: Events]
• 1981: The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. [category: Events]
• 1982: Brian Klemm, American singer and guitarist (Suburban Legends and Big D and the Kids Table) [category: Births]
• 1982: Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. [category: Events]
• 1983: Līga Dekmeijere, Latvian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Veloso, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Kenneth Clark, English historian (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Brandon Fields, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Lorena Ayala, Dutch-Spanish model [category: Births]
• 1984: Sara Goller, German volleyball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1985: Andrew Miller, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Isa Guha, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1985: Kano, English rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Lucie Hradecká, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1985: Marco Carta, Italian singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Marie McCray, American porn actress and model [category: Births]
• 1985: Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist [category: Births]
• 1985: Mutya Buena, English singer-songwriter (Sugababes) [category: Births]
• 1986: Alexander Noyes, American drummer (Honor Society) [category: Births]
• 1986: Greg Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1986: Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Myra, American singer and dancer [category: Births]
• 1988: Jonathan Howson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Park Gyuri, South Korean singer, pianist, and actress (Kara) [category: Births]
• 1988: Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1989: Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen. [category: Events]
• 1991: Sarah Ramos, American actress [category: Births]
• 1991: Lino Brocka, Filipino director (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. [category: Events]
• 1991: Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. [category: Events]
• 1992: Hutch Dano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Olivia Olson, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1992: Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Tom Daley, English diver [category: Births]
• 1994: The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. [category: Events]
• 1995: Les Aspin, American politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player [category: Births]
• 1996: Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Zahara) (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead. [category: Events]
• 1996: The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. [category: Events]
• 1997: Victoria Petryk, Ukrainian singer [category: Births]
• 1998: In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker. [category: Events]
• 1999: Bugz, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founder of Herbalife (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. [category: Events]
• 2002: Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist and filmmaker (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian race car driver and industrialist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people. [category: Events]
• 2005: Howard Morris, American actor and director (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. [category: Events]
• 2006: Billy Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Cherd Songsri, Thai director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Katherine Dunham, American dancer, director, educator, and author (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Spencer Clark, American race car driver (b. 1987) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%. [category: Events]
• 2010: JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. [category: Events]
• 2012: Bill Stewart, American football coach (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Constantine of Irinoupolis, American-Ukrainian bishop (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Douglas Rodríguez, Cuban boxer (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Eddie Blazonczyk, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ezell Lee, American politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, Spanish military surgeon (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Otis Clark, American butler and preacher, survivor of the Tulsa race riot (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rodolfo Félix Valdés, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roman Dumbadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. [category: Events]
• 2012: In Qafa e Vishës bus tragedy near Himara, Albania 13 students of Aleksandër Xhuvani University killed in bus crash. [category: Events]
• _: Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Corpus Christi can fall, while June 24 is the latest; held on Thursday after Trinity Sunday. (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Emperor Constantine I [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Helena of Constantinople, also known as "Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles." (Eastern Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, honors the 2006 plebiscite that indicated that 55.5% of Montenegrins were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. (Montenegro) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Navy Day (Chile) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: One of the festivals of Vejovis (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery of Saint Helena in 1502. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (International) [category: Holidays and observances]