WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2008. There are 224 days left in the year.

1840 _ New Zealand became a British colony

1871 _ French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die

1904 _ Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France

1916 _ Britain begins ``Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)

1918 _ House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1950 _ Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia

1956 _ U.S. explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1978 _ 118 Unification church couples wed in England

1982 _ British troops lands on Falkland Islands

1994 _ South Yemen secedes from Yemen