May 21<\/p>\n
1403 \u2013 Henry III of Castile sends Ruy Gonz\u00e1lez de Clavijo as ambassador to Tamerlane to discuss the possibility of an alliance between him and Castile against the moslem Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n
1758 \u2013 10 year old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape indians during the French and Indian War. She is returned 6 1\/2 years later.<\/p>\n
1851 \u2013 The Colombian Congress enacts a law freeing all slaves on January 1, 1852.<\/p>\n
1856 \u2013 Lawrence, Kansas, founded by abolitionists, is raided by pro slavery forces, with several buildings sacked and burned. The only casualty is one of the raiders who was accidentally killed. This begins the time of ‘Bleeding Kansas’.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 The Great Atlanta Fire causes $5.5 million in damage, destroying 2,000 buildings, but causing only 1 fatality due to a heart attack.<\/p>\n
1924 \u2013 University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb murder 14 year old Bobby Franks in a “thrill killing”.<\/p>\n
1927 \u2013 Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.<\/p>\n
1932 \u2013 Amelia Earhart lands at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing\u00a0 the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot.<\/p>\n
1934 \u2013 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. No reason can be found for this.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 During an experiment with the plutonium core that would have been the 3rd nuclear bomb dropped on Japan, if needed, physicist Louis Slotin is the second man fatally irradiated in the second criticality incident with the ‘demon core’ at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/p>\n
1972 \u2013 Michelangelo’s Piet\u00e0<\/em> in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a\u00a0 mentally disturbed vandal.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 A chartered school bus transporting 52 members of the Yuba City High School a cappella<\/em> choir, crashes after running off an elevated ramp on the I-680 highway in Martinez, California, killing 28 students and an adult adviser.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven’s Gate<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 An East Coast Aviation Services chartered British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 3101, runs out of fuel and crashes into mountainous terrain in Bear Creek Township, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania after missing a landing approach to Scranton International Airport and circling to try again, killing all 19 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 The tallest roller coaster in the world, the 456 feet tall, Kingda Ka<\/em> opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 Radio broadcaster Harold Camping’s prediction that the world would end on this date fails to come to pass.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 A suicide bombing killing more than 120 people in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, causes certain U.S. counter terrorist advisors to decide to exercise the better part of valor and relocate a forward post back across the Red Sea.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performs their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 21 1403 \u2013 Henry III of Castile sends Ruy Gonz\u00e1lez de Clavijo as ambassador to Tamerlane to discuss the possibility of an alliance between him and Castile against the moslem Ottoman Empire. 1758 \u2013 10 year old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape indians during the French and Indian War. She is … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93013,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions\/93013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}