Today in History - History - May 21st

1996Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win

19321st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland

198935th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

1969After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets

1948NY Yank Joe DiMaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)

1927Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after first solo air crossing of Atlantic

1995chris johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

1809Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Karl beats Napoleon

1944Hitler begins attack on British/US "terror pilots"

1881American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1952Mr. T, [Lawrence Tureaud], Chicago, American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)

1940Tony Sheridan, Norwich, Norfolk, singer-songwriter and guitarist, (d. 2013)

1780Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

120 BCAurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar

1921Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)

1688Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744)

1960Jeffrey Dahmer, West Allis Wisconsin, American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal)

1904Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')

1999NFL legend Deion Sanders (31) weds model Pilar Biggers in Paradise Island, Bahamas

1945Director Akira Kurosawa (35) weds actress Yoko Yaguchi (23)

1944Actor Burgess Meredith (36) weds actress Paulette Goddard (33) at David O Selznick's Beverly Hills home

1994ABC Sports President Roone Arledge (62) weds third wife Gigi Shaw

1935Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65

1542Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi River