The post where I use cut & paste quite liberally OR why May 21st is awesome

I saw this at Jennifer's and then again at Lisa's...

Rules:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).

Events:
1932 - Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back opens in theaters.

2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship and becomes the first nation to take gold in both the World Championship and Olympic games in ice hockey.

Births:
1898 - Armand Hammer, American physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector (d. 1990)
1952 - Mr. T, (Birth Name Laurence Tureaud) American actor

Death:
1542 - Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer

Observance:
Dia de la Afrocolombianidad marks the abolition of slavery in Colombia.

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