About May 21
May 21, 2025 is the 141st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 272 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.
- 1349 –Dušan’s Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
- 1502 –The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.
- 1674 –The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1856 –Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- 1863 –Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- 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.
- 1871 –Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
- 1881 –The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- 1917 –The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
- 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.
- 1934 –Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
- 1937 –A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- 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.
- 1969 –Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
- 1982 –Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
- 1996 –The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
- 1998 –In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- 2003 –An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
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