About May 21
May 21, 2024 is the 142nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 253 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 21
- 293 –Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
- 878 –Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
- 879 –Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
- 996 –Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1349 –Dušan’s Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
- 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.
- 1758 –Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
- 1856 –Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- 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.
- 1881 –The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- 1894 –The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
- 1904 –The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- 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.
- 1917 –The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
- 1934 –Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
- 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.
- 1939 –The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- 1972 –Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
- 1996 –The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
- 2005 –The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
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