The May 21st is the 141e Jour of the Année (142e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

10th century

•    996: Otton III is crowned emperor.

14th century

• 1358 : Beginning of the revolt of the Jacques with Paris.

15th century

• 1420 : The duke of Burgundy Philippe the Good and the king of England Henri V sign the Traité of Troyes (Paddle) which delivers France to the English.

17th century

• 1681 : Opening of the Channel of the South, length 321 km and conceived by the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet.

19th century

• 1804 : Opening of the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise.

• 1813 : Napoleon gains a victory (incomplete) with Bautzen, over the troops Russo - Prussian ordered by the marshal Wittgenstein.

• 1854 : Birth of the movement Félibrige.

• 1864 : The Ionian islands which formed the République of the Seven-Islands are attached to the Greece, after the departure of the Britanniques, which controlled them in the form of a Protectorat since 1815.

• 1881 : Creation of the the American Red Cross par.

• 1894 : the Veil , part in an act in worms, of the Belgian poet Symbolist of French-speaking expression Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898) is played Comédie-Française.

20th century

• 1904 : The International federation of football association (FIFA) is founded with Paris by 7 European countries.

• 1927 : First crossing of the Atlantic in the plane, as a recluse without stopover, of New York (from where it had taken off the day before) to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.

• 1932 : Amelia Earhart is the first woman to achieve a transatlantic flight as a recluse.

• 1945 : The Hollywood high-speed motorboat Humphrey Bogart, 46 years, and the rising star Lauren Bacall, 21 years, marry.

• 1956 : The the United States explode their first Bombe with hydrogen on the Atoll of Bikini.

• 1965 : Assassination of the Minister for the Guatemala, Eduardo Molina.

• 1967 : The Olympique Lyonese gains finally the Coupe de France with the Parc of the Princes by beating FC Sochaux 3-1 thanks to goals of Angel Rambert, André Perrin and Fleury Di Nallo.

• 1975 : Opening of the lawsuit of the Band in Baader in Germany.

• 1979 : Abolition of the days of racial discrimination by the National Assembly of Namibia.

• 1979 : Elton John is the first singer of the western world to occur in round in Soviet Union.

• 1985 : American 30 years which had taken drugs against the sterility gives rise to increased sevenfold, with Orange in California.

• 1991 : Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister for the India, is killed by a bomb which one had dissimulated in a basket of flowers.

• 1992 : Agreement of the twelve members of the EEC on the common Agricultural policy.

• 1996 : - Christian de Chergé, 59 years, Luc Dochier, 82 years, Christophe Lebreton, 45 years, Michel Fleury, 52 years, Bruno Lemarchand, 66 years, Célestin Ringeard, 62 years, Paul Favre-Miville, 57 years, the seven monks Trappists of Thibirine (Algeria) are cut the throat of by the rebels of the Islamic Groupe armed (GIA).

• 1996 : The shipwreck of a ferry on the Lake Victoria, vis-a-vis the Tanzania, makes some 500 victims.

• 1998 :

• Inauguration with Lisbon of Expo 98, penultimate World Fair of the second millenium.
• After 30 years of a reign without division, the president-general indonésien Suharto, under the pressure of the Parliament and the the United States, gives its resignation and gives the capacities to its vice-president, Jusuf Habibie.

21e century

• 2003 : In Algeria, a Seism of magnitude 6,8 keep silent more 2  260 people and makes more 10  200 wounded.

• 2006 :

• Referendum of 2006 on the independence of Montenegro gained by the freedom fighters by more than 55,4% of the voices
• Diffusion on the network WB of the last episode marking the oddment Charmed . This series is longest of the history of television with women for heroins.

• 2007 : the United Kingdom: the Cutty Sark , the historical Three-masted ship exposed in the dry hold to Greenwich in the national maritime museum, is devastated by a fire.

Births

• 427 av. J-C: Plato, philosopher († 347 av. J. - C.)

• 1265: Dante Alighieri, Italian writer († 1321)
• 1688: Alexander Pope, British Poet of the 18th century. († May 30th 1744)
• 1759: Joseph Fouché, French politician († December 26th 1820)
• 1792: Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, mathematician and engineer French († September 19th 1843)
• 1799: Mary Anning, British paleontologist († 1847)
• 1844: Henri Rousseau, known as Douanier Rousseau , employed French granting and painter († September 2nd 1910)
• 1854: Georges Desdevises of Dézert, French writer
• 1855: Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet of French language († 1916)
• 1901: Suzanne Lilar, Belgian writer of French language († 1992)
• 1904
• Robert Montgomery, actor, realizer and American producer († 1981)
• Fats Waller, pianist of jazz, organist and American type-setter († December 15th 1943)
• 1909: Guy de Rothschild, banking French († June 12th 2007)
• 1916: Harold Robbins, American writer († 1997)
• 1917: Raymond Burr, American actor († 1993)
• 1920: , British actor . († March 21st 2001)
• 1921: Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize († 1989)
• 1923: Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician († 2003)
• 1933: Maurice Andre, French trumpet player.
• 1941 : Anatoli Levchenko, Ukrainian cosmonaut († August 6th 1988)
• 1943: Jean-Claude Fournier, author of band-drawn French.
• 1945 : Ernst Messerschmid, German spationaut.
• 1949 : Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer.
• 1952 :
• Robert C. Springer, American astronaut
• Mister T., American actor
• 1959: Nick Cassavetes, actor, realizer, scenario writer and American producer
• 1960: Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer († November 28th, 1994).
• 1965 : Manolo Mejía, Mexican Matador .
• 1968 : Annette Jourde, French photographer
• 1972:
• Stomy Bugsy, Rappeur and Actor French.
• The Notorious B.I.G, American rappor. († March 9th, 1997)
• Christopher Wallace known as The Notorious B.I.G, rappor states-unien
• 1975: Marit Bergman, Swedish musician
• 1978: Briana Banks, American actress

Death

• 1810 : the knight of Éon, secret agent transvestite (° 1728).
• 1814 : Ignacio Jordán Claudio of ESA there LED Rio, Naturalist, lawyer and Spanish historian (° 1742).
• 1820 : Curro Guillén (Francisco Herrera Rodríguez), Spanish Matador (° November 16th 1783).
• 1961 : François Albert-Bush, Magistrate, economist, politician, Historian and academician French (° 1881).
• 1991 : Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister for the India (1984 - 1989), (° 1944).
• 2000 :
• Barbara Cartland, British writer , and probably the author of “romantic fiction” having had the most success. (° July 9th 1901)
• John Gielgud, British Actor . (° April 14th 1904)
• 2002: Niki de Saint Phalle, French, known artist in the whole world for its monumental and strange sculptures. (° October 29th 1930)
• 2007: Bruno Mattei, mythical Italian scenario writer.

Celebrations

• world Day of the Cultural diversity for the Dialog and the development (UNO)

First names

• Constantin
• Marc' han

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Constantin I {{er}} the Large one († 337) and Helene her mother († 327), Equal-with-apostles.
• Old people's home of Nice († 580), hermit close to Nice.
• Nicostrate
• Théopompe

Catholic saint

• Thibaud

See too

• May 21st in sport
• May 21st in the railroads

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