Today in History - History - May 21st

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

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

1881American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1995chris johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

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

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

1978Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic

1933Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph

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

1854Frederic Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, and five other Provencal poets found Félibrige, a literary and cultural association

120 BCAurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar

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

1780Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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