May 27, 2021 This Day in History: May 27 Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" is first released. Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, is sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the deadly plot. Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan.
May 26, 2021 This Day in History: May 26 "Dracula" by Bram Stoker is first published in London.; Donald Trump reaches the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Republican nomination for president.
May 24, 2021 Bob Dylan turns 80: A look back at his career The 10-time Grammy winner recorded more than three dozen studio albums. Some of his hits include "Like A Rolling Stone," "The Times They Are A-Changin’" and "Blowing in the Wind."
May 24, 2021 This Day in History: May 24 Four Islamic fundamentalists convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss is sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call-girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.
May 21, 2021 This Day in History: May 21 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton; Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 20, 2021 This Day in History: May 20 A White mob attacks a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala.; David Letterman hosts his last "Late Show," ending a 22-year, 6028 episode run.
May 19, 2021 This Day in History: May 19 FDR and Winston Churchill agree on the date for the D-Day invasion. Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies at age 64; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are married, becoming Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
May 12, 2021 This Day in History: May 12 The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found; scientists express concern during a NASA news conference over a pair of studies which said the huge West Antarctic ice sheet was starting to melt.
May 11, 2021 This Day in History: May 11 Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere; the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case comes to an end.
May 10, 2021 This Day in History: May 10 J. Edgar Hoover is named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI); the Rolling Stones record their first single for Decca Records in London.