21 May, This Day in History
What Happened On This Day – 21 May
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1991 Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, is killed
The assailant was a lady accepted to be connected to the Sri Lankan rebel aggressor association, the Tamil Tigers. At any rate, 14 individuals lost their lives in the self-destruction besieging.
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1979 Violent conflicts follow the indulgent condemning for Harvey Milk’s killer
Milk, the principal straightforwardly gay U.S. government official, had been shot and murdered along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. The professional killer, Dan White, was sentenced for intentional murder just, setting off the White Night Riots.
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1951 The ninth Street Show opens in New York
The historic craftsmanship display showing works by specialists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning is viewed as the birth hour of the creative vanguard alluded to as the New York School.
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1932 Amelia Earhart turns into the primary lady to fly performance relentless across the Atlantic
The U.S. aviatress’ vanishing on an endeavored round-the-world flight five years after the fact is quite possibly the most examined inexplicable problems throughout the entire existence of flight.
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1904 FIFA, the world overseeing assortment of affiliation football, is established
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association is liable for the association of the World Cup, which is one of the world’s most-seen games.
Births On This Day – 21 May
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1980 Gotye
Belgian/Australian artist musician
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1921 Andrei Sakharov
Russian physicist
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1844 Henri Rousseau
French painter
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1527 Philip II of Spain
1471 Albrecht Dürer
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German painter, etcher, mathematician
Passings On This Day – 21 May
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2006 Katherine Dunham
American artist
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2000 John Gielgud
English entertainer, chief, maker
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1991 Rajiv Gandhi
Indian lawmaker, sixth Prime Minister of India
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1935 Jane Addams
American social specialist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1771 Christopher Smart