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Events in 2000 and 21-5

Events in US in the birth year of Empetty

• Wary investors bring stock plunge; beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom (Feb. 25).
• Cuban boy Elián González, 6, at center of international dispute, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home (April 22).
• U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush's slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state (Nov. 7-8). Republicans file federal suit to block manual recount of Florida presidential election ballots sought by Democrats (Nov. 11). Florida Supreme Court rules election hand count may continue (Nov. 21). U.S. Supreme Court orders halt to manual recount of Florida votes (Dec. 9). Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5-4; rules there can be no further recounting (Dec. 12). See 2000 election chronology.
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Empetty (21-5) in history

• Day 21-5 year 1542: Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died in the Mississippi River during his North American expedition through the Southeastern United States in search of gold and a way to China.
• Day 21-5 year 1881: Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.
• Day 21-5 year 1927: Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.
• Day 21-5 year 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).
• Day 21-5 year 1956: The first hydrogen bomb to be dropped by air exploded over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
• Day 21-5 year 1989: In Hong Kong, approximately one million people took to the streets to show their support for students protesting for democratic reforms in China’s Tiananmen Square.
• Day 21-5 year 1991: Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister, was assassinated by a suicide bomber.
• Day 21-5 year 1998: Indonesian President Suharto resigned.
• Day 21-5 year 1999: Susan Lucci finally won a Daytime Emmy on her 19th nomination.
• Day 21-5 year 2003: Christine Todd Whitman announced her resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.