TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2019

1602 — Martha’s Vineyard first sighted

1674 — General John Sobieski chosen king of Poland

1683 — West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1832 — First Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)

1840 — New Zealand became a British colony

1846 — First steamship arrives in Hawaii

1861 — North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union

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

1881 — American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1916 — Britain begins "summer time" (daylight savings time)

1922 — Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O’Neill (Anna Christie)

1924 — Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun

1925 — Canadians allow to beer sales