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Today in History: May 21

0996 Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor.

1506 Christopher Columbus dies.

1790 Paris is divided into 48 zones.

1940 British forces attack German General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.

1951 The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.

1961 Governor John Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.

1970 The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.

1999 All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history

2018 Former US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sign deal with Netflix to produce films and series

2019 Washington is the first US state to legalize human composting

2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a surprise appearance at G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, with world leaders also making a statement to condemn Chinese acts of "economic coercion"

Born on May 21

0427 Plato, Greek philosopher.

1917 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason).

JOTD

A guy with bad gas goes to the doctor

He says “doc, you gotta help me. I can’t stop farting. It’s the weirdest thing, they don’t smell, and there’s no sound, but they won’t stop. I’ve farted 5 times while telling you this and see, you didn’t even notice”
The doc writes him a prescription and says “take this and come back in a week.
A week later the guy comes back and says “Doc, those pills didn’t stop the farts. All they did was make them smell terrible. I can hardly stand it”
The doctor replied “Good. Now that your sinuses are cleared up let’s work on your hearing”