Today is Thursday, May 21, the 141st day of 2009. There are 224 days left in the year.
1840 _ New Zealand became a British colony
1892 _ Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1908 _ First horror movie (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1916 _ Britain begins ``Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1922 _ Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1945 _ Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed
1956 _ U.S. explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1978 _ 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1979 _ Elton John becomes first western rocker to perform live in the USSR
1982 _ British troops lands on Falkland Islands