Today In History

Sun., May 21, 2000

In 1924: 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago.

In 1927: Charles Lindbergh completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic.

In 1956: The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.

In 1968: The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)

In 1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.

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