21 May

A list of events which occurred on the 21st of May.
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:Frank Bellamy is born.
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:Jim Goodwin is born.
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:Richard Libertini is born.
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:Booker Bradshaw is born.
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:Douglas E. Wise is born.
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:M. Keith Booker is born.
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:Jill Jacobson is born.
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:Ben Lemon is born.
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:Nichelle Nichols is contracted to play Lieutenant Uhura, only three days before filming begins on the first regular Star Trek episode, .
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:First day of filming on .
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:Seth Morris and Taylor Sheridan are born.
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:Alexander Slanger is born.
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:Nicole Randall is born.
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:Angola Murdoch is born.
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:Sunkrish Bala is born.
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:David Ajala is born.
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:Musical score for is recorded.
:Franklyn Seales dies.
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:Twenty-sixth day of filming on .
:Fourth day of second unit filming on .
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:Thirty-second day of filming on .
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: airs.
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:Thirty-eighth day of filming on .
:Robert Gist dies.
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: premieres in Portugal.
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:Cort Rogers is born.
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:Sixth day of filming on .
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: airs.
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:Dave Hudson dies.
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:Stephen Mines dies.
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