What happend on 21st May

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1979

White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

1966

Cassius Clay beat Henry Cooper in the sixth round at the Arsenal football ground, North London.

1961

American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.

1958

United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.

1956

Nuclear testing: In the Pacific Ocean, Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

1945

American screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.

1941

World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.

1936

Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

1934

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.

1932

Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.