The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. Date: May 21, 1904 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1904 📅 On This Day (Today)

President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. Date: May 21, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on…

The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). Date: May 21, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in…

The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces. Date: May 21, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1917 📅 On This Day (Today)

University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". Date: May 21, 1924 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1924 📅 On This Day (Today)

The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden. Date: May 21, 1925 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1925 📅 On This Day (Today)

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Date: May 21, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today)

Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Date: May 21, 1932 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1932 📅 On This Day (Today)

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. Date: May 21, 1934 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1934 📅 On This Day (Today)

Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. Date: May 21, 1936 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1936 📅 On…