Fw: On This Day in History (May 21(: End of the Paris Commune, 1st Transatlantic Solo Flights and Memories of Elvis
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On This Day in History
May 21
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? Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula erupts, creating a tsunami and killing about 15,000 people in the country's deadliest volcanic eruption
? First US Democratic National Convention is held in Baltimore
? French Army attacks Paris, starting the Semaine Sanglante (Bloody Week), a weeklong battle that kills 10,000-15,000 and ends the Paris Commune
? Aviator , in the Spirit of St. Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic
| Amelia Earhart not long after she landed in Ireland |
? After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the ?
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Only one actor has appeared on film with both the Beatles and Elvis Presley: the little-known Norman Rossington.
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