21 Mey

The21t o Meyis the 141t day o the year (142t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 224 days ti come.

Events

1502:Saunt Helena

1965:Banner oOntario

2006:Banner oMontenegro

• 1471- Murther o KeengHenry VI o Ingland.
• 1502- Discovery o the remote Sooth Atlantic islandSaunt Helena.
• 1851- Slavery is abolished inColombie.
• 1864- TheIonian Islandsare reunitit wiGreece.
• 1879- War o the Paceefic: Naval Battle oIquiqueatweenChileanPeru.
• 1927-Charles Lindberghcompletes his flicht across theAtlantic Oceanbi landin inParis.
• 1932-Amelia Earhartlands inDerry,Northren Ireland,completin the first solo Transatlantic flicht bi a woman.
• 1965- The currentBanneroOntariois adoptit.
• 1991- Assassination oRajiv Gandhi,umwhile prime meenister oIndie.
• 1998-PresesoIndonesieSuhartopropales his demission.
• 2003- AyirdquaukinAlgerie,kills 2,266 fowk.
• 2003-Celtic F.C.loses theUEFACup final 3-2 taeF.C. Porto.
• 2005-Eurovision Sang Contestendit inKiev,Ukrainean is won biElena PaparizouoGreece.
• 2006- In a referendum inMontenegro,a majority votes in favour o unthirldom fraeSerbie.
• 2007- Afiredestroys much o the clipperCutty SarkinGreenwich,Lunnon.
• 2012- A bomb attack inSana'a,Yemen,kills ower 120 fowk.
• 2016-Hibernian F.C.wins its firstScottish Cupin 114 year, defeatinRangers F.C.3-2.
• 2017-Celtic F.C.completes its league season unbeaten (34 wins, 4 draws), as the first Scots team tae dae this syne1899.

Births

Andrei Sakharov

Mary Robinson

• 1471-Albrecht Duerer,German penter (d.1528)
• 1527-Philip II o Spain(d.1598)
• 1780-Elizabeth Fry,Inglis social reformer (d.1845)
• 1792-Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis,French mathemateecian an scientist (d.1843)
• 1843-Charles Albert Gobat,Swiss politeecian (d.1914)
• 1843-Louis Renault,French juirist (d.1918)
• 1844-Henri Rousseau,French penter (d.1910)
• 1860-Willem Einthoven,Dutch medicinar an pheesiologist (d.1927)
• 1904-James Crawford,Scots fitbawer (d.1976)
• 1921-Andrei Sakharov,Roushie pheesicst an activist (d.1989)
• 1930-Malcolm Fraser,22ntPrime Meenister o Australie(d.2015)
• 1943-Ian Young,Scots fitbawer
• 1944-Mary Robinson,umwhilePreseso theRepublic o Ireland
• 1951-Al Franken,American comedian an politeecian
• 1952-Mr. T,American actor
• 1960-Jeffrey Dahmer,American serial killer (d.1994)
• 1961-Frances Curran,Scots politeecian
• 1961-Paul Keetch,Inglispoliteecian(d.2017)
• 1964-Drew Hendry,Scots politeecian
• 1966-Lisa Edelstein,American actress
• 1972-The Notorious B.I.G.,American rapper (d.1997)
• 1976-Stuart Bingham,Inglis snooker player
• 1979-Jamie Hepburn,Scots politeecian
• 1980-Gotye,Belgian-Australie sangster
• 1985-Mark Cavendish,Manx cyclist
• 1994-Tom Daley,Inglis diver

Daiths

• 987-Louis V o Fraunce(b.967)
• 1471-Henry VI o Ingland(b.1421)
• 1481-Christian I o Denmark(b.1426)
• 1542-Hernando de Soto,Spaingie splorer (b.1496)
• 1613-John Maxwell, 9t Laird Maxwell,Scots nobleman (b.1583)
• 1911-Williamina Fleming,Scots-American astronomer (b.1857)
• 1920-Venustiano Carranza,PresesoMexico(b.1859)
• 1929-Archibald Primrose, 5t Yerl o Rosebery,Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick(b.1847)
• 1935-Jane Addams,American activist (b.1860)
• 1965-Hugh Marwick,Scots scholart o OrkneyNorn(b.1881)
• 1991-Rajiv Gandhi,Prime meenisteroIndie(b.1944)
• 2000-John Gielgud,Inglis actor (b.1904)
• 2014-Jaime Lusinchi,PresesoVenezuela(b.1924)

Halidays

• Independence Day (Montenegro)
• Navy Day (Chile)
• Afro-ColombieDay