World Day of Cultural Diversity
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in the midst of a re-election campaign, killed by a bomb hidden in a bouquet of flowers.
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
Birthday
Russian physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989). He was instrumental in formulating the political reform concept called perestroika and in encouraging glasnost (openness) in restrictive communist countries.
21 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
Personal tragedy day.
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