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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Tuesday, 21 May 2013

	1688 Alexander Pope (d. 1744), the English poet best known for his satirical poem, The Rape of the Lock, was born in London.

	1904 Seven European nations got together to form the football federation's international body, FIFA.

	1910 General Louis Botha became the first prime minister of the new Union of South Africa.

	1927 Captain Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop flight between New York and Paris in his Ryan NYP monoplane.

	1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

	1979 Elton John of Candle in the Wind fame became the first rock star to perform in Russia.

	1991 Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed at Sriperumbudur near Madras by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber.

	2000 Barbara Cartland (b. 1901), prolific English author of romantic novels, died.

	2002 Moderate Kashmiri separatist leader, lawyer and politician Abdul Ghani Lone was assassinated.

	2005 Kingda Ka, the tallest (139m) roller coaster in the world and the fastest at the time, opened at a theme park in New Jersey, USA.