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What happened in history on this day: May 21?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On May 21 in ...
- 2001 - Intel announces the 750 MHz mobile Pentium III processor. The 1.35-volt processor can step down to 500 MHz at 1.1 volts when running on battery power.
- 2001 - Intel announces the 600 MHz mobile Pentium III processor. The 1.1-volt processor can step down to 300 MHz at 0.975 volts when running on battery power.
- 2001 - Intel announces two 600 MHz mobile Celeron processor. One operates at 1.35 volts, the other at 1.1 volts.
- 2001 - Intel announces the 800 MHz Celeron processor.
- 2003 - SCO Group officially drops its old name Caldera International.
- 2003 - Intel releases the 2.4, 2.6, and 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor with 800 MHz front-side bus. Prices are US$180, US$228, and US$278 respectively in 1000-unit quantities.
- 1928 - Walt Disney's trademark application for "Mickey Mouse" is filed with the United States Patent Office.
- 1948 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Donald's Dream Voice to theaters.
- 1954 - Disney releases the animated short film Pigs is Pigs to theaters.
- 1954 - Disney releases the animated short film Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet to theaters. It was originally released as part of the film Make Mine Music.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled Wonders of the Water World.
- 1984 - Donald Duck puts his webbed footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
- 1984 - Disney executives meet with the chairman of Bally Manufacturing Corporation (which perceived itself as a takeover target), to see if they could help each other.
- 1990 - The stage show Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double-Cross begins performances at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World.
- 1990 - The syndicated TV show Siskel & Ebert, the Future of the Movies with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese airs.
- 1991 - The last episode of STAT airs.
- 1993 - The CBS TV network airs the Disney special The Best of Disney Music: A Legacy in Song, part two.
- 2007 - Business Week magazine releases results of a survey by Universum Communnications of 40,000 students on the Most Desirable Undergraduate Employer. Number two on the list is the Walt Disney Company.
- 1956 - The 1522nd 1956 Corvette is completed. This car is destined to become the first SR-2, for Harley Earl's son Jerry.
- 1978 - At the Sears Point International Raceway in Sonoma, California, the SCCA NaturSlim Trans-Am Challenge - Round 1 race is held.
- Finishing 1st in category II and 1st overall is the Pickett Racing #6 Corvette 427, driven by Greg Pickett.
- Finishing 1st in category I and 5th overall is the #91 Corvette 427, driven by Gene Bothello.
- Finishing 2nd in category I and 6th overall is the Carlen #11 Corvette 350, driven by Gary Carlen.
- Finishing 3rd in category I and 7th overall is the Babe's Garage #28 Corvette 427, driven by Babe Headley.
- Finishing 5th in category I and 10th overall is the Mocko #3 Corvette 427, driven by David Mock.
- Finishing 6th in category I and 12th overall is the Round Table Racing #4 Corvette 427, driven by Peter Brallier.
- Finishing 7th in category II and 13th overall is the Wink-DeLorenzo Racing #40 Corvette driven by Tony DeLorenzo.
- Finishing 7th in category I and 14th overall is the Pullyblank Enterprises #06 Corvette 427, driven by Gary Pullyblank.
- In 9th place in category II and 16th place overall, but not finishing the race, is the Automotive Enterprises #27 Corvette 427, driven by Rich Sloma.
- In 8th place in category I and 17th place overall, but not finishing the race, is the Neilson Racing #8 Corvette 427, driven by Nic Neilsen.
- In 10th place in category I and 20th place overall, but not finishing the race, is the El Camino Auto Parts #22 Corvette, driven by Bob Matkovich.
- In 11th place in category I and 21st place overall, but not finishing the race, is the Phantom Racing #43 Corvette 454, driven by Frank Joyce.
- 2000 - The Nevada Open Road Challenge is held on a 90 mile stretch of highway S.R. 318 between Lund and Hiko. 78 of over 200 cars are Corvettes. A modified 1992 Corvette takes top speed of 227 MPH. Another Corvette averages 207 MPH, taking first place.
- 2005 - At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, the SPEED World Challenge Weekend race is held, round four of the SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT series.
- Finishing 4th is the LG Pro Long Tube Headers #28 Corvette C6, driven by Lou Gigliotti.
- Finishing 8th is the Blackdog Racing #34 Corvette C6, driven by Tony Gaples.
- Finishing 10th is the Tom Oates Chevrolet #99 Corvette Z06, driven by Tom Oates.
- Finishing 18th is the Whelen Engineering #31 Corvette Z06, driven by Sonny Whelen.
- Finishing 20th is the Flying Tiger Racing #47 Corvette Z06, driven by Bob Taylor.
- In 22nd place, but not finishing the race, is the Doug Rippie Motorsports #9 Corvette Z06, driven by Adam Malmquist.
- In 24th place, but not finishing the race, is the Banner Engineering #6 Corvette C6, driven by Leighton Reese.
- 2006 - At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, the Speed World Challenge race is held, round four of the SPEED GT Championship series.
- Finishing 1st is the LG Pro Long Tube Headers #28 Corvette C6, driven by Lou Gigliotti.
- Finishing 12th is the LG Pro Long Tube Headers #26 Corvette C6, driven by Claudio Burtin.
- Finishing 16th is the Whelen Engineering #31 Corvette C6, driven by Sonny Whelen.
- Finishing 17th is the Southwest Racing #40 Corvette C6, driven by Greg Weirick.
- Finishing 18th is the David Farmer Racing #35 Corvette C6, driven by David Farmer.
- In 22nd place, but not finishing the race, is the Banner Engineering #6 Corvette C6, driven by Leighton Reese.
- In 28th place, but not finishing the race, is the Blackdog Racing #34 Corvette C6, driven by Tony Gaples.
- 2006 - At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, the American Le Mans at Mid-Ohio race is held, round three of the American Le Mans Series.
- Finishing 1st in GT1 class and 6th overall is the Corvette Racing #4 Corvette C6-R driven by Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta.
- Finishing 2nd in GT1 class and 7th overall is the Corvette Racing #3 Corvette C6-R driven by Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell.
- 1938 - Czechoslovakia garrisons its border with Germany.
- 1940 - At a meeting of the Australian War Cabinet, industrialist Essington Lewis is appointed Director General of Munitions Supply, and given great freedom to achieve his goals. Sir Keith Murdoch is appointed Director General of Information, with wide-ranging powers and responsibilities. Cabinet approves construction of a dry dock in Sydney capable of taking battleships and aircraft carriers. A Director General of Recruiting is appointed.
- 1940 - Two infantry battalions of British Expeditionary Force 50th Division and 1st Army Tank Brigade attack German forces southeast of Arras, with 58 Mark I Matilda tanks (with single machine guns), and 16 Mark II Matilda tanks (with high-velocity 40-mm guns). They inflict serious casualties on Erwin Rommel's artillery and infantry, until Rommel forms a defensive line of artillery and 88-mm anti-aircraft guns. This line destroys 36 British tanks. Panzer tanks join in destroying a further seven tanks, but at a loss of three Panzer IV tanks, six Panzer III tanks, and other light tanks. German troop losses total 387 men in this one battle, four times the total losses to date.
- 1941 - (by dawn) Allied forces withdraw from Maleme airfield on Crete.
- 1941 - (0900 hours) The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen stops at Bergen, Norway, to refuel; the battleship Bismarck does not.
- 1941 - (morning) On Crete, German transport planes begin landing at airport near Maleme.
- 1941 - (afternoon) On Crete, several companies of German paratroopers land near Maleme airport.
- 1941 - (late afternoon) On Crete, German 5th Mountain Division troops begin landing at the Maleme airport.
- 1941 - British ships sink most of 25 small vessels north of Crete carrying heavy weapons and some 5th Mountain Division troops.
- 1941 - (at dusk) Operation Rheinübung begins, as German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen head out to the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1942 - Convoy PQ-16 sails from Iceland, headed to Murmansk, Russia.
- 1942 - Convoy QP-12 sails from Murmansk, headed to Iceland.
- 1942 - Submarine U-69 torpedoes and sinks Canadian merchant ship Torondoc off Martinique in the Caribbean. 21 die.
- 1942 - Submarine U-558 torpedoes and sinks Canadian merchant ship Troisdoc off Jamaica in the Caribbean.
- 1943 - At the Trident Conference in Washington, Britain and the US agree Operation Overlord, the amphibious landing in France, should be launched May 1, 1944.
- 1943 - German submarine U-303 under commander Karl-Franz Heine is lost with 20 dead of 48 crew.
- 1943 - German submarine U-381 under commander Graf Wilhelm-Heinrich Pückler und Limpurg is lost with all hands (47 dead).
- 2001 - Gibraltar issues a postage stamp depicting the end of World War II.
- 1982 - Minoru Awkawa and Howard Lincoln of Nintendo of America meet with Sid Sheinberg at Universal Studios, telling them of refusal to pay royalties for Donkey Kong.
- 1984 - Atari officially discontinues the Atari 5200 video game system.
- 1984 - Atari introduces the Atari 7800 ProSystem. It features higher resolution graphics than the Atari 5200, optional keyboard to make it a home computer, and compatibility with Atari 2600 cartridges. Price is US$149. The number 7800 represents 5200 plus 2600.
- 1998 - Sega announces the Dreamcast video game system will be released in Japan on November 27.
- 2000 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. A pizza restaurant has an arcade video game, called "Monkey Fracas Jr." This is a reference to the Donkey Kong Jr. video game.
- 2001 - Nintendo announces the initial price of the GameCube in the US will be US$199.
- 2002 - Take Two Interactive Software announces the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City video game for the PlayStation 2. Release date is set for October 22.
- 2002 - Nintendo reduces the price of the GameCube from US$199.95 to US$149.95 in the United States.
- 2003 - Nintendo releases the Wario Ware, Inc: Mega Microgame$ video game for the Game Boy Advance in the US. Price is $34.99.
- 2008 - Activision releases the Quake Wars: Enemy Territory video game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the US.
- 2010 - Online search engine Google.com provides an animated playable version of Pac-Man in the Company's logo in honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of the game. For 48 hours users worldwide can play the 255 levels of the game.
- 1901 - The Ottawa Mint Act is introduced in parliament.
- 1788 - James Jarvis & Co. delivers 400,000 Fugio cents to the national government.
- 1965 - US Senator Alan Bible of Nevada introduces bill S. 2012 in the Senate that would give the Treasury Secretary the power to dictate what coins could be traded at a premium. It would also prohibit exportation of US coins, prohibit the melting of silver coins by unauthorized persons, outlaw unreasonable hoarding of coins, and outlaw buying or selling non-rare coins at more than face value.
- 1996 - Auctions by Bowers and Merena sells the Louis Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head nickel (Proof 66, finest known) for US$1.485 million, a record for a single coin at auction. Also notable is the Eliasberg 1796 Liberty Cap, No Pole half cent, MS-65, sold for $506,000, a record for a US half cent.
- 2001 - The US Mint launches the 2001 Rhode Island State quarter dollar.
- 2004 - U.S. Court of Appeals rules that intentional systematic overgrading of coins is a criminal offence.
- 2008 - (to May 22) Stack's conducts an auction of 2800 lots of US coins, paper money. Some highlights:
- 1795 Capped Bust Small Eagle 13 Leaves Reverse gold $20 eagle PCGS MS-63 US$402,500;
- 1916 bronze cast for Standing Liberty quarter dollar US$120,750.
- 2009 - The US Mint releases the 2009 John Tyler Presidential dollar coin to circulation.
- 1866 - First-class cricket debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days.
- 1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25.
- 1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed.
- 1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45.
- 1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds.
- 1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA Soccer) forms in Paris, France.
- 1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4.
- 1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8.
- 1922 - Colonel Ruppert buys out Colonel Huston's interest in New York Yankees for US$1,500,000.
- 1926 - Chicago White Sox player Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double.
- 1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader.
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores 143 Australia versus Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours.
- 1943 - Fastest 9-inning American League baseball game (89 minutes), Chicago White Sox beat Senators.
- 1945 - Australia Services win first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by six wickets.
- 1948 - New York Yankees' Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun).
- 1952 - Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in first inning and beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1.
- 1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6.
- 1962 - Three more Cleveland Indians' homeruns set American League record for most homeruns (26) over 8 games.
- 1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4.
- 1966 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs British champ Henry Cooper in round six for heavyweight boxing title in London, England.
- 1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
- 1968 - Chicago Cubs' Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight games.
- 1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the New York Mets.
- 1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens, Greece.
- 1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational.
- 1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins fourth UEFA Cup at Enschede.
- 1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew (undefeated) wins in 1:54.4.
- 1977 - San Diego Padres beat Montreal Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings.
- 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic.
- 1979 - The Montréal Canadiens defeat the New York Rangers 4 games to 1 in the best-of-seven series, winning the Stanley Cup.
- 1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt, Germany.
- 1981 - Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1.
- 1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Junior on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4.
- 1986 - Atlanta Braves' player Rafael Ramirez hits four doubles in a game.
- 1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2.
- 1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez (her third LPGA championship).
- 1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss versus Australia.
- 1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4.
- 1994 - Cincinnati Reds bat out of order against Los Angeles Dodgers in second inning.
- 1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic.
- 1996 - Ken Griffey Junior, 26, is 8th youngest to hit 200 homeruns.
- 1996 - Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats New York Yankees for his 200th win.
- 2003 - F.C. Porto defeats Celtic 3-2 (AET) in the UEFA Cup Final in Seville, Spain.
- 2006 - The Dallas Mavericks beat the San Antonio Spurs in overtime to win the Western Conference semi-finals in the NBA Playoffs.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL Western Conference 2nd Round, game 3: Colorado Avalanche beats Saint Louis Blues by score 5-2, leading series 2-1.
- 2022 - At Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Angels beats Oakland Athletics by score 5-3.
- 2022 - At American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Milwaukee Brewers beats Washington Nationals by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Houston Astros beats Texas Rangers by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Minnesota Twins beats Kansas City Royals by score 9-2.
- 2022 - At Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Tampa Bay Rays beats Baltimore Orioles by score 6-1.
- 2022 - At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Saint Louis Cardinals beats Pittsburgh Pirates by score 5-4.
- 2022 - At LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, USA , Major League Baseball regular season game: Atlanta Braves beats Miami Marlins by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats Philadelphia Phillies by score 7-4.
- 2022 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Boston Red Sox beats Seattle Mariners by score 6-5.
- 2022 - At Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Diego Padres beats San Francisco Giants by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season doubleheader game 1: New York Mets beats Colorado Rockies by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season doubleheader game 2: Colorado Rockies beats New York Mets by score 11-3.
- 2022 - At Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Cincinnati Reds by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Arizona Diamondbacks beats Chicago Cubs by score 7-6.
- 2022 - At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Yankees beats Chicago White Sox by score 7-5.
- 1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40-inch (1-metre) refractor used for first time.
- 2010 - Japan launches the Akatsuki orbiter probe on an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima spaceport to Venus to study its atmosphere in detail.
- 1788 - James Jarvis & Co. delivers 400,000 Fugio cents to the national government.
- 1819 - First bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in New York City.
- 1832 - First Democratic National Convention (Baltimore).
- 1856 - Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces.
- 1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins.
- 1864 - General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia.
- 1881 - In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross.
- 1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington, is authorized.
- 1914 - Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota.
- 1918 - US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote.
- 1927 - (10:22 PM) American pilot Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis monoplane lands at Le Bourget airfield near Paris, France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic (33 hours 30 minutes).
- 1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City.
- 1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens.
- 1941 - First US ship sunk by a German submarine (SS Robin Moore).
- 1944 - Adolf Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots".
- 1946 - Physicist Louis Plotin is fatally irradiated during the Demon Core incident at Los Alamos.
- 1954 - American amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.
- 1956 - US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.
- 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests).
- 1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
- 1964 - First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay).
- 1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos.
- 1965 - US Senator Alan Bible of Nevada introduces a bill that would give the Treasury Secretary the power to dictate what coins could be traded at a premium. It would also prohibit exportation of US coins, prohibit the melting of silver coins by unauthorized persons, outlaw unreasonable hoarding of coins, and outlaw buying or selling non-rare coins at more than face value.
- 1970 - US National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
- 1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
- 1981 - Kim Seelbrede of Ohio is crowned 30th Miss USA.
- 1984 - Atari introduces the Atari 7800 ProSystem video game system. It features higher resolution graphics than the Atari 5200, optional keyboard to make it a home computer, and compatibility with Atari 2600 cartridges. Price is US$149.
- 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1992 - New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6 percent.
- 1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe.
- 1996 - Auctions by Bowers and Merena sells the Louis Eliasberg US 1913 Liberty Head nickel for US$1.485 million, a record for a single coin at auction.
- 1998 - At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel (who was suspended for bringing a gun to school) shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing two and wounding 25 others, after killing his parents at home.
- 1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- 2001 - The US Mint releases the 2001 Rhode Island quarter dollar to circulation.
- 2002 - The US State Department releases a report naming seven state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
- 2008 - U.S. crude oil price passes US$130 per barrel, rising $5 above the previous day to a record high of US$134.
- 2020 - The U.S. announces it will withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty within six months, alleging continuous violations by Russia.
Other history:
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic.
- 2002 - The US State Department releases a report naming seven state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
- 2008 - General election in Georgia. President Mikheil Saakashvili wins 60 percent of vote. David Gamkrelidze of opposition part wins 15 percent.
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