May 21: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 21st marks the 141st day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 142nd in case of leap years). There are 224 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Notorious BIG (1972) and Briana Banks (1978). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Tea Day and World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.
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Holidays

Saint Constantine the Great
Equals-to-the-Apostles
Saints Constantine and Helena
Saint Mireille
Saint Charles-EugFne de Mazenod
Dia de la Afrocolombianidad marks the abolition of slavery in Colombia.
Navy Day (Dfa de las Glorias Navales) in Chile.
Saint Goderik
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Events

2019 An ambush occurred at 12th Mile on Khonsa Deomali Road in Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh. Eleven people were killed.
2018 Economy of Japan: Sony has agreed to a $2.3billion deal in which they will purchase a controlling stake in EMI Music Publishing. This deal will allow Sony to indirectly own 90% the music publisher and its 2 million songs.
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: At least 20 Afghan police officers are killed in a Taliban raid in southern Afghanistan.
2016 Attacks on Bangladeshi secularists: A homeopathic doctor in Bangladesh is killed in an attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claim the responsibility.
2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Islamic State fighters enter the ancient ruin of Palmyra, after they have captured Tadmur in Syria yesterday. Hundreds of pro-government fighters are thought to have been killed in fighting. (Reuters) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims the Islamic State controls over half of Syria's 95,000-square-kilometres. It also controls nine provinces and settlements.
2014 2014 Libyan Uprising: General Khalifa Beqasim Haftar demands that the government hand power over to the country's top judiciary amid heavy fighting in Tripoli. (Reuters) Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq refuses resignation, while the Ministry of Defense calls for the arrest of all soldiers who support Gen. Haftar's campaign.
2013 Syrian civil war: Israel and Syria exchange gunfire over the Golan Heights. (Reuters) Hezbollah elite reinforcements cross the border from Lebanon to Al-Qusayr, Syria. Activists claim that the city was almost completely destroyed.
2012 At least 120 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a suicide bomber attacked soldiers practicing for the Unity Day parade in Sana'a in Yemen. Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility.
2011 ''Dawn'' is Pakistan's largest English language newspaper and begins publishing thousands of diplomatic cables from the United States that it obtained through a deal with WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. These cables reveal that Pakistani forces requested the United States to intensify its drone strikes against insurgents in Pakistani territory. This request has not been made public by Pakistani authorities.
2010 Friday's minibus suicide bombing attack in Diyala, Iraq killed 35 people and left 69 others wounded.
2009 Linda Fleming (66-year-old US lady with advanced cancer) becomes the first to die under a new Washington State assisted suicide law.
2008 The U.S. crude oil prices have risen $5 to US$130/barrel, surpassing the previous day's record of US$134.
2007 2007 Israel-Gaza Conflict: Palestinian militants in Gaza launch 13 Qassam missiles into Israel, killing 1 woman and injuring many others.
2006 A referendum is held in Montenegro to decide independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. With a majority vote of 55%, the Montenegrins voted for independence.
2005 Kingda Ka, the tallest and fastest roller coaster on the planet, opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
2004 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will seek ratification of Kyoto Protocol. The protocol will take effect upon ratification and trade restrictions will be imposed on countries that are not parties, like Australia and the United States.
2003 Two rooms are damaged when an explosion takes place at Yale University's Sterling Law School Building, New Haven, Connecticut. Joint Terrorism Task Force investigators respond. No injuries reported. Officials believe that the explosion was caused a pipe bomb.
2002 The US State Department has released a report that names seven state sponsors of terror: Iran, Iraq and Libya, North Korea. Sudan.
2001 The 2001 Rhode Island quarter-dollar is now in circulation thanks to the US Mint.
1998 At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel (who was suspended for bringing a gun to school) shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing two and wounding 25 others, after killing his parents at home.
1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York
1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic.
1994 Best Little Whorehouse closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 performances
1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life.
1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6 percent.
1991 Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1990 Dow Jones Average hits a record 2,844.68
1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez (her third LPGA championship).
1988 Fat by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1984 Atari introduces the Atari 7800 ProSystem video game system. It features higher resolution graphics than the Atari 5200, optional keyboard to make it a home computer, and compatibility with Atari 2600 cartridges. Price is US$149.
1983 Bang The Drum All Day by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat the Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1980 Empire Strikes Back premieres
1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi is appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect.
1977 Fiddler on the Roof closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances
1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as Chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1972 Heathen! opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens, Greece.
1970 US National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the New York Mets.
1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1967 Sing, Israel Sing closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 performances
1966 Downtown by Mrs Miller hits #82
1965 US Senator Alan Bible of Nevada introduces a bill that would give the Treasury Secretary the power to dictate what coins could be traded at a premium. It would also prohibit exportation of US coins, prohibit the melting of silver coins by unauthorized persons, outlaw unreasonable hoarding of coins, and outlaw buying or selling non-rare coins at more than face value.
1964 First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay).
1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6.
1959 Gypsy opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquer Morotai Island.
1957 French Government of Mollet resigns.
1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 House of Flowers closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1954 American amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.
1953 French Government of Mayer resigns.
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
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.
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia.
1948 New York Yankees' Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun).
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed.
1944 Adolf Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots".
1942 WWII: Mexico declares war against Nazi Germany after the sinking of the Mexican tanker ''Faja de Oro'' by the German U-boat, U-160, off Key West.
1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat
1940 Allied counter-attack at Atrecht, North-France.
1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1938 Matsuo Toi kills 30 people in a village in Okayama, Japan, in the Tsuyama massacre, the world's worst spree killing by an individual until 1982.
1937 A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1934 Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1931 Belgian Government of Henri Jaspar falls.
1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City.
1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Colorado.
1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote.
1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WWI.
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time).
1914 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8.
1911 Mexican President Porfirio Diaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4.
1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars.
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA Soccer) forms in Paris, France.
1900 Russia invades Manchuria.
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Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 DJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne - I'm The One
2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
2014 John Legend - All Of Me
2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
2010 Eminem - Not Afraid
2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2007 Maroon5 - Makes Me Wonder
2006 Rihanna - SOS
2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
2004 Usher - Yeah!
2003 Sean Paul - Get Busy
2002 Ashanti - Foolish
2001 Janet - All For You
2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
1998 Next - Too Close
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
1994 All-4-One - I Swear
1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
1992 Kris Kross - Jump
1991 Hi-Five - I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)
1990 Madonna - Vogue
1989 Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
1988 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
1987 U2 - With Or Without You
1986 Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
1985 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
1984 Lionel Richie - Hello
1983 David Bowie - Let's Dance
1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
1980 Blondie - Call Me
1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
1978 Wings - With A Little Luck
1977 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
1976 The Sylvers - Boogie Fever
1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
1974 Ray Stevens - The Streak
1973 Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
1970 The Guess Who - American Woman
1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
1968 Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
1967 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
1965 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
1964 Mary Wells - My Guy
1963 Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
1959 Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ
1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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