May 21

Today in History
• 0685 - Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
• 1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
• 1502 - Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St. Helena
• 1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
• 1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
• 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
• 1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in New York City
• 1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Emergency Medical Services Day
• International Tea Day
• National American Red Cross Founder’s Day
• National Memo Day
• National Talk Like Yoda Day
• Navy Day Chile
• World Baking Day
• World Meditation Day

Birthdays
• 0120 BC - Aurelia Cotta, Mother of Julius Caesar
• 1527 - Philip II, King of Spain, 1556 - 1598, and Portugal, 1580 - 1598
• 1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania
• 1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino and Musignano
• 1780 - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
• 1821 - John F. Loudon, Dutch sugar and indigo manufacturer
• 1826 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro (1851-60)
• 1872 - Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock