Berlin. The current calendar sheet for Friday, May 21, 2021: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events in the overview.
Calendar sheet: Friday, May 21, 2021
- 20th calendar week, 225 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Taurus
- Name day: Bernhardin, Elfriede, Valeria, Saturnia
History: What happened on May 21st?
A look at history can sharpen one’s view of the present. What events took place on May 21st?
2020 – The US government announces the exit from the 1992 Open Skies contract. Russia violated the regulations. The agreement allows the NATO states and Russia observation flights in the airspace of the contracting parties.
2016 – Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansur is killed in a US drone attack on his motorcade in the Afghan border region with Pakistan. Mansur had only been the successor to the late Taliban founder Mullah Omar since July 2015.
2006 – Montenegro separates from Serbia and becomes independent. The Montenegrins decide in a referendum.
2001 – Consumer Protection Minister Renate Künast (Greens) agrees with representatives from agriculture, the food trade and consumer centers on an eco-label for food from organic farming.
1996 – At least 500 people are killed in the sinking of the ferry “Bukoba” on Lake Victoria in East Africa.
1991 – The President of the Indian Congress Party, Rajiv Gandhi, is bombed at an election rally. He was the country’s prime minister from 1984-1989, succeeding his murdered mother Indira Gandhi.
1951 – In the Federal Republic of Germany, the co-determination of employees in companies in the iron and steel industry is introduced (“Montan-Mitbestungsgesetz”).
1871 – Europe’s first mountain railway goes into operation in Vitznau, Switzerland. The route of the rack railway leads from Lake Lucerne to the Rigi, a mountain range in Central Switzerland.
996 – The 16-year-old German King Otto III. is in Rome by Pope Gregory III. crowned emperor.
Celebrity birthdays on May 21st
Who was born on May 21st?
1981 – Max Mutzke (40), German rock and pop singer (“Marie”), achieved eighth place in 2004 with “Can’t wait until tonight” at the Eurovision Song Contest
1946 – Erwin Kostedde (75), German soccer player (Kickers Offenbach 1971-1975, Werder Bremen 1980-1982)
1941 – Ronald Isley (80), American pop singer, singer of the Isley Brothers (“Twist And Shout”)
1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist and civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1975, d. 1989
1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter and draftsman, d. 1528
Celebrity days of death on May 21st
Who died on May 21st?
2001 – Heinz Kamnitzer, German writer, PEN President of the GDR 1970-1989, born in 1917
1976 – Friedrich Bischoff, German writer (“The Golden Castles”), pioneer of the radio play, Broadcasting Director of Südwestfunk 1946-1965, born in 1896
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