Today in History - History - May 21st

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

1988"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99

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

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

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

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

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

1995chris johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

1933Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph

1981Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral

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

1780Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

120 BCAurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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