This Day In History.

May   21
1992 --  China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1991 --  Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns

1988 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1987 --  Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka

1986 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1982 --  British troops lands on Falkland Islands

1980 --  Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad

1971 --  National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn

1970 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1969 --  Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1968 --  USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1968 --  Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores

1964 --  US begin intelligence flights above Laos

1964 --  1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1961 --  Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1958 --  US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

1956 --  US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1950 --  Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia

1945 --  German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1944 --  Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"

1941 --  German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta

1941 --  1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1940 --  Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France

1940 --  AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1932 --  1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands

1918 --  House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1917 --  Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I

1881 --  American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1879 --  Battle of Iquiquw

1864 --  GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia

1863 --  Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins

1861 --  Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital

1861 --  NC is 10th state to secede from Union

1856 --  Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces

1804 --  Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

1683 --  West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1602 --  Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)