Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 May 21

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• ... that cassava (plants pictured) is a principal crop in the Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo?
• ... that a new family of predatory
  Manipulatoridae, has been discovered from amber found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar
  ?
• ... that in his painting
  Frederic Leighton contrasted Andromeda
  in white to a dark sea monster with an irregular and jagged body?
• ... that "Girls Talk" was unloaded by Elvis Costello "in a moment of drunken bravado"?
• ... that it is not entirely clear why Hammarlöv Church has a round tower?
• ... that Favites pentagona uses its sweeper tentacles armed with stinging cells to prevent other corals from crowding it?
• ... that Cuban writer Lesbia Soravilla incorporates Mariblanca Sabas Alomá into her feminist novel?
• ... that "Johnny's Theme", beamed to Tonight Show viewers from 1962 to 1992, was a cover song of a cover song of a cover song?

• Five banks charged with manipulating foreign exchange rates plead guilty and agree to fines totaling over US$5.7 billion.
• A landslide in Salgar, Colombia, kills more than 75 people.
• In association football,
  Luis Enrique pictured) win La Liga
  .
• persistent vegetative state
  .
• In ice hockey, the
  the final
  .
• The
  captures the strategic city of Ramadi
  , Iraq.
• Former
  Egyptian Revolution of 2011
  .

• Ongoing events:
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Dean Potter

May 21: Navy Day in Chile

• 879 – Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir as its Duke.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Union and Confederate armies fought to a draw at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, with nearly 32,000 casualties combined.
• 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international sport governing body of association football, was founded in Paris.
• 1927 – Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, American aviator Charles Lindbergh (pictured) completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Paris–Le Bourget Airport.
• 1981 – The Italian government released the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that had been implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.

• More anniversaries:
  • May 20
  • May 21
  • May 22