📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 21

📜 Events:

* 293 — Roman emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar for Diocletian, marking the beginning of the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.

* 1904 — Founding of the International Federation of Football (FIFA).

* 1502 — The island of Saint Helena is discovered by Portuguese navigator João da Nova.

* 1799 — End of the Siege of Acre (1799): Napoleon Bonaparte abandons the siege of the Ottoman city of Acre after two months. This was the turning point of Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign and one of the first major defeats he suffered in his military career.

* 1927 — Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1991 — Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

* 2018 — Beginning of the truckers’ strike, resulting in shortages of food, medicine, and fuel across Brazil.

*🌟 Births:*

* 1527 — Philip II of Spain (d. 1598).

* 1471 — Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528).

* 1775 — Lucien Bonaparte, French military officer, politician, and academic (d. 1840).

* 1799 — Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847).

* 1921 — Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and activist (d. 1989).

* 1972 — The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997).

* 1974 — Maria Fernanda Cândido, Brazilian actress.

*🕊 Deaths:*

* 987 — Louis V of France (b. 967).

* 1542 — Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer (b. 1500).

* 1639 — Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and theologian (b. 1568).

* 1895 — Franz von Suppé, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1819).

* 1991 — Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1944).

* 2002 — Niki de Saint Phalle, French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker (b. 1930).

* 2025 — Dorinha Duval, Brazilian actress and comedian (b. 1929).

*📍 Holidays and Cyclical Events:*

* National Language Day

* World Day for Cultural Development.

*Brazil:*

* Day of the Literature Professional

* Godchild’s Day
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