On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean
On May 21, 1921, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Soviet scientist and dissident, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1832 | The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore. |
|---|
| 1840 | New Zealand was declared a British colony. |
|---|
| 1881 | Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. |
|---|
| 1892 | The opera "I Pagliacci" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo was first performed, in Milan, Italy. |
|---|
| 1924 | Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago, killed a 14-year-old boy in a "thrill killing." |
|---|
| 1956 | The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. |
|---|
| 1959 | The musical "Gypsy" starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway. |
|---|
| 1979 | Former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. |
|---|
| 1991 | Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber. |
|---|
| 1999 | Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera "All My Children," won her first Daytime Emmy Award for best actress in the 19th straight year she was nominated. |
|---|
| 2008 | David Cook won the seventh season of "American Idol." |
|---|
Current Birthdays
Actress Lisa Edelstein ("House M.D.") turns 45 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan AgostiniSen. Al Franken, D-Minn., turns 60 years old today.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
| 1941 | Ron Isley, R&B singer (The Isley Brothers), turns 70 |
|---|
| 1948 | Leo Sayer, Singer, turns 63 |
|---|
| 1952 | Mr. T, Actor ("The A Team"), turns 59 |
|---|
| 1957 | Judge Reinhold, Actor ("Beverly Hills cop" movies), turns 54 |
|---|
| 1959 | Nick Cassavetes, Actor, director, turns 52 |
|---|
| 1977 | Ricky Williams, Football player, turns 34 |
|---|
| 1981 | Josh Hamilton, Baseball player, turns 30 |
|---|
| 1991 | Sarah Ramos, Actress ("Parenthood"), turns 20 |
|---|
Historic Birthdays
Andrey Sakharov5/21/1921 - 12/14/1989Soviet physicist and advocate of human rights; awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1975.Go to obituary »
| 56 | Alexander Pope 5/21/1688 - 5/30/1744
English poet and satirist |
|---|
| 65 | Elizabeth Fry 5/21/1780 - 10/12/1845
English philanthropist and social reformer |
|---|
| 47 | Edwin Christy 5/21/1815 - 5/21/1862
American minstrel show performer |
|---|
| 66 | Henri Rousseau 5/21/1844 - 9/2/1910
French painter |
|---|
| 85 | Gustav Lindenthal 5/21/1850 - 7/31/1935
Austrian-born American civil engineer; designed the Hell Gate Bridge |
|---|
| 74 | Leon Bourgeois 5/21/1851 - 9/29/1925
French statesman and promoter of the League of Nations; awared Nobel Prize for Peace (1920) |
|---|
| 58 | Grace Hoadley Dodge 5/21/1856 - 12/27/1914
American philanthropist |
|---|
| 67 | Willem Einthoven 5/21/1860 - 9/29/1927
Dutch physiologist and developer of the electrocardiograph; won Nobel Prize (1924) |
|---|
| 52 | Glenn Curtiss 5/21/1878 - 7/23/1930
American aviation pioneer |
|---|
| 79 | Marcel Breuer 5/21/1902 - 7/1/1981
Hungarian-born American architect |
|---|
| 39 | Fats Waller 5/21/1904 - 12/15/1943
American pianist and composer |
|---|
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario