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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.

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”