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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 21, 1924, in a case that drew much notoriety, 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby's cousin). Both men received life sentences; Loeb was killed by a fellow prison inmate in 1936 while Leopold was paroled in 1958, dying in 1971.
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• On this date:
• In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49.
• In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.
• In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
• In 1892, the opera "Pagliacci," by Ruggero Leoncavallo, premiered in Milan, Italy.
• In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours.
• In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.
• In 1941, a German U-boat sank the American merchant steamship SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship's passengers and crew were allowed to board lifeboats.
• In 1956, the United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
• In 1959, the musical "Gypsy," inspired by the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, opened on Broadway with Ethel Merman starring as Mama Rose.
• In 1972, Michelangelo's Pieta, on display at the Vatican, was damaged by a hammer-wielding man who shouted he was Jesus Christ.
• In 1982, during the Falklands War, British amphibious forces landed on the beach at San Carlos Bay.
• In 1991, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.
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• Ten years ago: The U.N. Security Council approved a peacekeeping force of 5,600 troops for Burundi to help the African nation finally end a 10-year civil war. Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp., struggling to survive, announced it would cut 11,000 jobs.

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