Today in History for 21st May 2022:
Historical Events
1881 – American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1886 – 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1943 – Fastest 9 inning AL baseball night game (89 mins), Chicago White Sox beat visiting Washington Senators, 1-0
1968 – Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1971 – Chelsea win 11th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Real Madrid 2-1 in Athens (replay)
1987 – Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
Famous Birthdays
1680 – Frederich Karl Erbach, German composer, born in Odenwald (d. 1731)
1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1903 – Pedro Aramburu, Argentine army leader, President and Dictator of Argentina (1955-58), born in Río Cuarto, Argentina (d. 1970)
1923 – Bettye Danoff, American golfer (co- founder LPGA Tour), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2011)
1941 – Ronald Isley, American singer (Isley Brothers – “Twist and Shout”; “This Old Heart Of Mine”), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1985 – Mark Cavendish MBE, British road cyclist (UCI Road World C’ships 2011; Points classification winner Tour de France 2011, 21; Giro d’Italia 2013; Vuelta a España 2010), born in Douglas, Isle of Man
Famous Deaths
1254 – Conrad IV, King of Germany, Jerusalem and Sicily, dies at 26
1481 – Christian I, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies at 55
1719 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic, dies at 73
1790 – Thomas Warton, English critic and poet (Pleasures of Melancholy) British Poet Laureate (1785-90), dies at 62
1915 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (designed the portable mortar), dies in combat at 40
1996 – Mary Perot Nichols, American journalist, dies at 79