American Red Cross, Amelia Earhart & Johnny Carson Have What in Common?

American Red Cross, Amelia Earhart & Johnny Carson Have What in Common?

5 World-Changing Events That Fell on May 21

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

Do you know what events join the American Red Cross, Amelia Earhart and Johnny Carson? All 3 share an important anniversary today, among 5 World-Changing Events That Happened on May 21.  

 Do you enjoy learning new things daily? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as from some of my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy History,or Dates In History. These events for today’s blog post are primarily from Wikipedia.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in San Jose, Cupertino, and Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, Calif. They just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s events that happened in history on today’s date, May 21. I hope you find them interesting, too.

5 World-Changing Events That Happened on May 21

1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.

1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S. affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

1924 – University of Chicago law students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder acquaintance 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing" (a crime committed strictly for the thrill of committing it). Both wealthy and intelligent, Leopold, age 19 at the time, and Loeb, age 18, considered themselves to be Nietzscheanübermenschen who could commit a "perfect crime" (e.g. kidnapping and murder), and get away with it because of their "superiority" to others. Loeb 

Loeb was the youngest graduate in the history of the University of Michigan before attending Univeristy of Chicago Law School. Leopold had already completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, prior to attending its Law School. Loeb's family retained celebrated lawyer Clarence Darrow for the defense, which succeeded in preventing a death penalty.

Both were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years. This crime was the inspiration for the Alred Hichcock film, "The Rope."

1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean; five years later in 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.  

1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.

BONUS Question 1:  What town or municipality became the first to fingerprint all of its citizens?

BONUS Question 2:  What Japanese scandal involved Sada Abe?

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you learned something new from reading about these 5 World-Changing Events That Happened on May 5.

BONUS Answer 1: In 1934, Oskaloosa, Iowa, became the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.

BONUS Answer 2: In 1936, Sada Abe was arrested after eluding Tokyo police for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story was one of Japan's most notorious scandals due to the fact her lover Kichizo Ishida was killed by her via erotic asphyxiation, and that Abe claimed she killed him and kept his genitals because she loved him and couldn't bear to thenk of him with another woman (such as his wife). 

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