TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, MAY 21, 2018 On this day in history:

0996 - Sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor.

1471 - King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward IV took the throne.

1536 - The Reformation was officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.

1790 - Paris was divided into 48 zones.

1840 - New Zealand was declared a British colony. 1848 - Kennedy lands at Rockingham Bay, to commence his fateful expedition.

1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded. 1929 - William Henry Storey registered the trademark for the board game Sorry! in the U.K.

1934 - Oskaloosa, IA, became the first city in the U.S. to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1956 - The US exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.

1980 - The movie The Empire

Strikes Back was released. 1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.

1991 - In Madras, India, the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a bouquet of flowers that contained a bomb.

2003 - The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.

2005 - The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2008 - It is reported that the Tasmanian government has declared the Tasmanian Devil an endangered species. 2010 - JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.

2011 - Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 - A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.

2012 - A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana’a, Yemen.