About May 21
May 21, 2024 is the 142nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 253 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 21
- 878 –Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
- 1851 –Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
- 1863 –Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- 1871 –Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
- 1879 –War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
- 1951 –The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
- 1969 –Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
- 1972 –Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
- 1981 –Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
- 1981 –The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
- 1982 –Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
- 1990 –Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen.
- 1991 –Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- 1991 –Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
- 1994 –The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
- 1998 –In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- 2001 –French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- 2003 –An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
- 2006 –The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
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