History for May 21

History for May 21 - On-This-Day.com
Plato 427 B.C., Alexander Pope 1688, Glenn Hammond Curtiss 1878
  

Armand Hammer 1898, Andrei Sakharov 1921 - Soviet physicist, he came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Soviet antiwar activist, Mr. T (Lawrence Tero Tureaud) 1952


1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.


1881 - The United States Lawn Tennis Association was formed in New York City.


1922 - The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.


1924 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago.


1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.


1929 - William Henry Storey registered the trademark for the board game Sorry! in the U.K.


1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.


1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.