Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1819 ― First bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in NYC
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, FIFA, forms in Paris, France
1908 ― First horror movie (“Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”) premieres in Chicago
1945 ― Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed
1968 ― U.S. nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1979 ― Elton John becomes first Western rocker to perform live in the USSR
1994 ― South Yemen secedes from Yemen