Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/May 21
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- May 21:
- 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
- 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe.
- 1966 - American Cassius Clay beats Britain's Henry Cooper.
- 1995 - Montgomery Burns is shot and collapses on the town's sundial.