Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 21:
\n1904 \u2013 FIFA, football\u2019s international governing body, was established in Paris.
\n1927 \u2013 Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to fly the Atlantic solo, from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
\n1932 \u2013 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
\n1969 \u2013 Sirhan B. Sirhan was sentenced to death by a U.S. court for the 1968 murder of Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
\n1972 \u2013 Michaelangelo\u2019s statue of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ, known as Pieta, smashed in Rome.
\n1989 \u2013 One million people, a sixth of the population of Hong Kong, demonstrated in support of rebellious students in Beijing after authorities clamped martial law on the capital.
\n1991 \u2013 Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister, was killed by a bomb hidden in a bouquet of flowers while campaigning for elections in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
\n1996 \u2013 A Tanzanian ferry capsized on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the estimated 1,000 on board only 114 survived in east Africa\u2019s worst marine disaster.
\n2003 \u2013 An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Algeria in the capital and nearby towns, killing 2,251 and injuring 10,243.
\n2004 \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s Chris Cairns sets world record for test match sixes.
\n2006 \u2013 Republic of Montenegro holds referendum proposing independence from Serbia and Montenegro.
\n(Reuters)Statue. FIFA establishment, Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight, Amelia Earhart’s solo flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On May 21, major events included the establishment of FIFA in 1904, Charles Lindbergh becoming the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, and Amelia Earhart becoming the first woman to do the same in 1932. Sirhan B. Sirhan was sentenced to death for the murder of Robert Kennedy in 1969, later commuted to life imprisonment. In 1972, Michaelangelo’s Pieta statue was smashed in Rome, and in 1989, one million people in Hong Kong demonstrated in support of rebellious students in Beijing. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a bomb in 1991, and in 1996, a Tanzanian ferry capsized on Lake Victoria. An earthquake in Algeria in 2003 killed thousands, while in 2004, Chris Cairns set a world record for test match sixes. The Republic of Montenegro held a referendum for independence from Serbia and Montenegro in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1521,8119,589,10706,8575,2994,2627,4477,10705,932,2692,4777,153,6965,3343,703,10704,5378,336,658,2588,187,1130,9833,5679,7009,2446,183,393,388,659,6730,864,1792,8171,7727,4388,2920,7967,3378,1358,114,1944,18,5869],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-1521","tag-8119","tag-africa","tag-amelia-earharts-solo-flight","tag-authorities","tag-bomb","tag-capsized","tag-charles","tag-charles-lindberghs-solo-flight","tag-court","tag-death","tag-earthquake","tag-elections","tag-establishment","tag-events","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-establishment","tag-flowers","tag-football","tag-history","tag-hong-kong","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-killing","tag-law","tag-marine","tag-match","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-zealand","tag-on-this-day","tag-paris","tag-population","tag-prime-minister","tag-record","tag-referendum","tag-rome","tag-sentence","tag-state","tag-students","tag-support","tag-top-news","tag-woman","tag-world","tag-world-record"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n