On this day: May 21

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.

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