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May 21, 2004

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1506: Christopher Columbus died in Spain. There was no notice given of his death; only a few attended the funeral. Nobody knows for sure where he's buried, though some believe his remains were moved to the Dominican Republic.

1878: William R. Featherstone died in Montreal at age 32. The Canadian Methodist wrote the hymn "My Jesus, I Love Thee."

1916: Saturday Evening Post published artist Norman Rockwell’s first cover. It depicted a boy having to care for his infant sibling, pushing a baby carriage, while his buddies set off the play ball.

1942: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo" at Victor Studios in Hollywood.

1956: In what may be major-league baseball’s wildest wild pitch, the ball slipped out of the hand of Washington Senator southpaw Chuck Stobbs and landed 30 rows up in the stands on the first-base side of home plate.

1971: Singer Peter Cetera lost four teeth and had to have major plastic surgery after being mugged at a Cubs game in Chicago.

1988: Champ bull rider Lane Frost became the first cowboy to ride Red Rock to the 8-second bell. In the previous eight years, 312 cowboys had tried unsuccessfully to ride the rodeo circuit’s toughest bull.

1993: To celebrate the final episode of TV’s Cheers, Jay Leno did The Tonight Show live from the Bull & Finch bar. Ironically, most of the Cheers cast seemed to be drunk.

1995: Singer Don Henley married model Sharon Summerall in Malibu. Witnesses included Bruce Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Sheryl Crow, Sting, Billy Joel, and the Chieftains.

1997: News agencies reported that Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, had eaten 14,837 Big Macs since 1973 when he was 17 and drove his first car to McDonalds. Don loves Big Macs. He proposed to his wife in a McDonalds parking lot.

2001: Burglars entered a warehouse near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, disconnected the video security system, and made off with $526,000 worth of extra-strength throast lozenges. Police said the warehouse was full of other items, but only the lozenges were taken.

2003: The Argentian women's magazine "Claudia" apologized for a tip that led to more than 100 microwave explosions. The magazine had said women could restore old bottles of nail polish by microwaving them for three minutes. But many of the women who tried reported chemical reacton made their microwaves explode.

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