Today in History - History - May 21st

1933Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph

1881American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1938Don Bradman scores 143 Austalia v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours

1725The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

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

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

1978Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic

1981Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral

1972Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.

198935th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

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

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

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

120 BCAurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar

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

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

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

1780Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

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

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

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

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

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