History for May 21 - On-This-Day.com
Plato 427 B.C., Alexander Pope 1688, Glenn Hammond Curtiss 1878
Andrei Sakharov 1921 - Soviet physicist, he came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Soviet antiwar activist, Ara Parseghian 1923, Mr. T (Lawrence Tero Tureaud) 1952
1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.
1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
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