On May 21, 2000, the bones of President James Garfield’s spine are on display for a final day at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.

“The streak is over…Susan Lucci!” announces Shemar Moore of The Young and the Restless on this night in 1999, right before presenting the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actress to the tearful star of ABC’s All My Children.

Only one actor has appeared on film with both the Beatles and Elvis Presley: the little-known Norman Rossington.

In a shocking incident that reverberated around the globe, Michelangelo’s iconic Pietà was vandalized on May 21, 1972, while it was on display at St.

On May 21, 1960, the first tremor of a series hits Valdivia, Chile.

The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on May 21, 1956.

In 1955, the world of music witnessed a groundbreaking moment with the recording of “Maybellene” by the legendary Chuck Berry at Chess Records in Chicago.

On May 21, 1942, 4,300 Jews are deported from the Polish town of Chelm to the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, where all are later gassed to death.

Historic Flight: Charles A.

American pilot Charles A.