On this day — May 21

Wind speeds in excess of 480 kilometres per hour (300 mph) are estimated from measurements for the third time in history.

including the perpetrator.

and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

killing four and injuring 24.

Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.

Yemen.

The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.

Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.

officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.

Pennsylvania.