On this day in history - Today, May, 21

Today in History

• 1991 Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, is assassinated

  The attacker was a woman believed to be linked the Sri Lankan separatist militant organization, the

• 1979 Violent clashes follow the lenient sentencing for Harvey Milk's murderer

  Milk, the first openly gay U.S. politician, had been shot and killed together with San Francisco May

• 1951 The 9th Street Show opens in New York

  The ground-breaking art exhibition showing works by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooni

• 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic

  The U.S. aviatress' disappearance on an attempted round-the-world flight five years later is one of

• 1904 FIFA, the world governing body of association football, is founded

  The Fédération Internationale de Football Association is responsible for the organization of the Wor