May 21st

Today in America's Present Past

1542 | Explorer Hernado de Soto died.

1690 | Missionary John Eliot died.

1832 | The first Democratic National Convention is held in Baltimore

A depiction of the Indian Creek Massacre

1832 | Indian Wars: Indian Creek massacre.

1856 | Civil Rights: Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, by pro-slavery forces.

1863 | Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins.

1878 | Entrepreneur Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born.

1881 | Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1898 | Entrepreneur Armand Hammer was born.

1918 | Congress: The House of Representatives passed an amendment allowing women to vote.

1935 | Activist Jane Addams died.

Laurence Tureaud, known as “Mr. T.”

1952 | Actor “Mr. T.” was born.

1960 | Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was born.

1969 | Civil Rights: Greensboro uprising in North Carolina.

Sirhan Sirhan during his arrest.

1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

1972 | Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. was born.

1979 | The White Night riots started in San Francisco, California, in response to the assassination of Harvey Milk.