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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/878" title="878">878</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars" title="Arab–Byzantine wars">Arab–Byzantine wars</a>: The city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Syracuse_(877%E2%80%93878)" title="Siege of Syracuse (877–878)">was captured</a></b> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghlabids" title="Aghlabids">Aghlabids</a> as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Sicily" title="Muslim conquest of Sicily">Muslim conquest of Sicily</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1703" title="1703">1703</a> – English writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a> was imprisoned for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_libel" title="Seditious libel">seditious libel</a> after publishing <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shortest_Way_with_the_Dissenters" title="The Shortest Way with the Dissenters">a pamphlet</a></b> that was perceived to satirise the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tory</a> publications about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters" title="English Dissenters">Dissenters</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/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – Former Indian prime minister <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Rajiv Gandhi">Rajiv Gandhi</a></b> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi">assassinated by a suicide bomber</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriperumbudur" title="Sriperumbudur">Sriperumbudur</a>, Tamil Nadu.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – Indonesian president <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto" title="Suharto">Suharto</a></b> resigned after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Suharto" title="Fall of Suharto">a collapse of support for his presidency</a> amid economic and political crises, ending 32 years in power.</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/Linda_Laubenstein" title="Linda Laubenstein">Linda Laubenstein</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1947)</p>
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