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| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Event | The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%. | |
| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Event | The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year. | |
| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Death | Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (born in 1987) | |
| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Death | Katherine Dunham, American dancer (born in 1909) | |
| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Death | Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (born in 1931) | |
| May 21st, 2006 (May 21 2006) | Death | Billy Walker, American singer (born in 1929) | |
| May 21st, 1996 (May 21 1996) | Event | The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000. | |
| May 21st, 1996 (May 21 1996) | Event | The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed. | |
| May 21st, 1996 (May 21 1996) | Death | Paul Delph, American musician and producer (born in 1957) | |
| May 21st, 1996 (May 21 1996) | Death | Lash LaRue, American actor (born in 1917) | |
| May 21st, 1986 (May 21 1986) | Birth | Myra, Mexican-American singer | |
| May 21st, 1976 (May 21 1976) | Birth | Deron Miller, American rock musician | |
| May 21st, 1976 (May 21 1976) | Birth | Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper | |
| May 21st, 1966 (May 21 1966) | Birth | Lisa Edelstein, American actress | |
| May 21st, 1936 (May 21 1936) | Event | Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover s severed genitals in her handied in Her story soon becomes one of Japan s most notorious scandals. | |
| May 21st, 1936 (May 21 1936) | Birth | Gunter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate | |
| May 21st, 1926 (May 21 1926) | Birth | Robert Creeley, American poet (died in 2005) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| May 21st, 1916 (May 21 1916) | Birth | Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (died in 2002) | |
| May 21st, 1916 (May 21 1916) | Birth | Harold Robbins, American novelist (died in 1997) | |
| May 21st, 1856 (May 21 1856) | Event | Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. | |
| May 21st, 1786 (May 21 1786) | Death | Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (born in 1742) | |
| May 21st, 1686 (May 21 1686) | Death | (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (born in 1602) | |
| May 21st, 0996 (May 21 0996) | Event | Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. | |
