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
- 1502 –The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.
- 1554 –A royal Charter is granted to Derby School as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, by Queen Mary I.
- 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.
- 1863 –Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1904 –The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- 1939 –The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- 1969 –Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
- 1981 –Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
- 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.
- 1982 –Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
- 1990 –Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen.
- 1991 –Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- 1991 –Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
- 1994 –The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
- 2003 –An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
- 2005 –The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
- 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%.
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