05-20-2009, 08:44 PM
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May 21st
1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.
1956 ~ The U.S. detonated the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jesse Capelli, Canadian Porn Actress.
1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber.
2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor.
2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
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