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• ... that during World War I, a torpedo struck the ocean liner SS Kroonland, (pictured) but failed to explode?
• ... that the 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film?
• ... that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity?
• ... that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
• ... that English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte?
• ... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?
  

• At least 22 people are killed as a wave of anti-foreign violence spreads across South Africa.
• Russia wins the 2008 World Championship in ice hockey, defeating Canada in the final.
• Leonel Fernández (pictured) of the Dominican Liberation Party is re-elected President of the Dominican Republic.
• The Nigerian Red Cross reports that at least 100 people are dead after a pipeline explosion in Lagos.
• A series of bomb blasts in Jaipur, India, kills at least 63 people.
• An earthquake measuring 7.9 M_w strikes Sichuan, China, with more than 40,000 people confirmed dead.

May 21: Navy Day in Chile

• 1758 – French and Indian War: Ten-year-old Mary Campbell was taken captive from her Pennsylvania home by members of the Native American group Lenape, presumably becoming the first white child to travel to the Connecticut Western Reserve.
• 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal (pictured), linking Greater Manchester in North West England to the Irish Sea, officially opened, becoming the largest navigation canal in the world at the time.
• 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international sport governing body of association football, was founded in Paris.
• 1927 – Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, American aviator Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Le Bourget Airport near Paris.
• 1998 – Indonesian President Suharto resigned following the collapse of support for his three-decade long reign.

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