May 21st
The May 21st is the 141e Jour of the Année (142e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
10th century
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996: Otton III is crowned emperor.
14th century
15th century
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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
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1681 : Opening of the Channel of the South, length 321 km and conceived by the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet.
19th century
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1804 : Opening of the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise.
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1813 : Napoleon gains a victory (incomplete) with Bautzen, over the troops Russo - Prussian ordered by the marshal Wittgenstein.
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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.
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1881 : Creation of the the American Red Cross par.
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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
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1904 : The International federation of football association (FIFA) is founded with Paris by 7 European countries.
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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.
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1932 : Amelia Earhart is the first woman to achieve a transatlantic flight as a recluse.
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1945 : The Hollywood high-speed motorboat Humphrey Bogart, 46 years, and the rising star Lauren Bacall, 21 years, marry.
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1956 : The the United States explode their first Bombe with hydrogen on the Atoll of Bikini.
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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.
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1979 : Elton John is the first singer of the western world to occur in round in Soviet Union.
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1985 : American 30 years which had taken drugs against the sterility gives rise to increased sevenfold, with Orange in California.
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1991 : Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister for the India, is killed by a bomb which one had dissimulated in a basket of flowers.
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1992 : Agreement of the twelve members of the EEC on the common Agricultural policy.
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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).
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1996 : The shipwreck of a ferry on the Lake Victoria, vis-a-vis the Tanzania, makes some 500 victims.
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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
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2003 : In Algeria, a Seism of magnitude 6,8 keep silent more 2 260 people and makes more 10 200 wounded.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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