WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 141stday of 2014. 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

1892 ― Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera “I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan

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

1908 ― First horror movie (``Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”) premieres in Chicago

1916 ― Britain begins “Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)

1945 ― Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed

1979 ― Elton John becomes first Western rocker to perform live in the USSR

1994 ― South Yemen secedes from Yemen

1994 ― Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe