THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 21
May 21 in history
What happened on May 21: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1864 and 1930, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
8–21 May 1864 — Two weeks of entrenched slaughter; at the Bloody Angle, men fight hand-to-hand for twenty hours in the rain. Grant to Washington: “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
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— Dharasana Satyagraha
21 May 1930 — Column after column of satyagrahis walk unresisting into police lathis; the reporter Webb Miller counts the stretchers. His dispatch reaches a thousand newspapers: the Raj now rules, visibly, by the club.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
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