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| May 21st, 2008 | Event | Manchester United And Chelsea Football Club compete in the first ever all English UEFA Champions League Final in Moscow, Russia. The game was won 6-5 on penalties by Manchester United. |
| May 21st, 2007 | Event | The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, Englandied in She was the last surviving clipper, now there is none. |
| May 21st, 2006 | Event | The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%. |
| May 21st, 2006 | Event | The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year. |
| May 21st, 2004 | Event | Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu s record from the previous year. |
| May 21st, 2004 | Event | Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983. |
| May 21st, 2003 | Event | An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people. |
| May 21st, 2001 | Event | French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. |
| May 21st, 1998 | Event | In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker. |
| May 21st, 1998 | Event | Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns. |
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