On This Day in History
May 21
Historical Events
1792 Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula erupts, creating a tsunami and killing about 15,000 people in the country's deadliest volcanic eruption
1832 First US Democratic National Convention is held in Baltimore
1871 French Army attacks Paris, starting the Semaine Sanglante (Bloody Week), a weeklong battle that kills 10,000-15,000 and ends the Paris Commune
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St. Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic
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1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman
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Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
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Memories of Elvis
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Only one actor has appeared on film with both the Beatles and Elvis Presley: the little-known Norman Rossington.
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