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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">May 21</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Day_for_Cultural_Diversity_for_Dialogue_and_Development" title="World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development">World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1138" title="1138">1138</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">The Crusades</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Shaizar" title="Siege of Shaizar">siege of Shaizar</a></b> ended, and the Emir of Shaizar became a vassal of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The inconclusive <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House" title="Battle of Spotsylvania Court House">Battle of Spotsylvania Court House</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> ended with combined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> casualties totaling around 31,000.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894" title="1894">1894</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Ship_Canal" title="Manchester Ship Canal">Manchester Ship Canal</a></b>, linking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_England" title="North West England">North West England</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a>, officially opened, becoming the world's largest navigation canal at the time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> students <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb" title="Leopold and Loeb">Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb</a></b> murdered a 14-year-old boy in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_killing" title="Thrill killing">thrill killing</a> out of a desire to commit a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_crime" title="Perfect crime">perfect crime</a>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – A Taiwanese man <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Taipei_Metro_attack" title="2014 Taipei Metro attack">carried out a stabbing spree</a></b> on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_Metro" title="Taipei Metro">Taipei Metro</a> train, killing four people and injuring 24 others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Dao" title="Feng Dao">Feng Dao</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 954); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Campanella" title="Tommaso Campanella">Tommaso Campanella</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1639); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer" title="Armand Hammer">Armand Hammer</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1898); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Laubenstein" title="Linda Laubenstein">Linda Laubenstein</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1947)</p>
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