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Events on May 21

• 1363 Elizabeth of Pomerania marries Emperor Charles IV in Kraków. She is crowned Queen of Bohemia in the following month. The Polish-Bohemian opposition is eased by the marriage.
• 1904 At the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques in Paris, the world football federation FIFA is founded by seven European football associations at the initiative of Robert Guérin and Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann.
• 1927 After 33.5 hours of solo flight across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh lands with his Spirit of St. Louis at Le Bourget Airport in France.
• 1932 With Alfred Freyberg in the Free State of Anhalt, an NSDAP politician is elected Minister-President of a state of the German Reich for the first time.
• 1951 With the Montan-Mitbestimmungsgesetz, employee codetermination in the supervisory and management boards of companies in the mining and iron- and steel-producing industries in the Federal Republic of Germany is legally established.
• 1967 In the USA, windsurfing is developed from surfing. The American Jim Drake launches his windsurfer Old Yeller, consisting of a surfboard and a sail, for the first time in Jamaica Bay in New York.
• 1970 German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt meets Willi Stoph, Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the GDR, in Kassel as part of his new Ostpolitik.
• 1975 In the courthouse of the Stuttgart Prison, the so-called Stammheim trial against the Red Army Faction begins. Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.
• 1979 Elton John performs in Leningrad in the Soviet Union as the first Western pop star. In total, he gives eight performances in Leningrad and Moscow by May 28.
• 1991 The former head of government of the GDR, Willi Stoph, and former defense minister Heinz Keßler are arrested over the shooting orders at the GDR border.
• 2006 With its victory in the 2006 Ice Hockey World Championship in the final against the Czech Republic in Riga, Latvia, Sweden's Tre Kronor team becomes the first national ice hockey team to win both the World Championship and the Olympic Games in the same year.
• 2025 The American action film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning premieres in German cinemas. It concludes this eight-part film series.

Born on May 21

• 1902 Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and designer
• 1904 Fats Waller, American jazz musician
• 1921 Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1940 Tony Sheridan, British musician
• 1952 Mr. T, American actor
• 1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (“Cannibal of Milwaukee”)
• 1962 Uwe Rahn, German footballer
• 1972 The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper
• 1990 Tiril Eckhoff, Norwegian biathlete
• 1994 Tom Daley, British diver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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