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May 21

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In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

In 1832, the first Democratic National Convention got under way in Baltimore.  The delegates would nominate President Andrew Jackson for a second term.

In 1840, New Zealand was declared a British colony.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

In 1904, Jazz musician Fats Waller was born.

In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his "Spirit of St. Louis" near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.  Lindbergh covered a distance of more than 3,600 miles in 33 1/2 hours.

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Novelist Harold Robbins  (1916)

Actor Raymond Burr (1917)

Soviet Andrei Sakharov  (1921)

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"Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it."
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Anais Nin