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May 21 is the 141st day of the year ... 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, ... Irish-born, English physician ...
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes. 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London. 1895 – Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two ...
2004 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965) [48] 2005 – David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930) 2008 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918) [49] 2009 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
May 15 is the 135th day of the year ... a total of 31 people are killed, ... Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863) ...
2010 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board. 2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia, United States, kills eight people and injures more than 200. 2015 – Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3,500.
9 May. 1931 - Death of Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) 1950 - Death of Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883; May 10. 1482 - Death of Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people. [4]
May 30 is the 150th day ... a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people. ... 1975 – Michel Simon, Swiss-born French actor (b. 1895 ...