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