Tuesday, May 21, 1991

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The Headlines

Next Bloomingdale's Chief Named

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I Don't Wanna Cry

Mariah Carey

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Super Soaker

On This Day

• Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.

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• Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Albrecht Dürer (1471)
• Andrei Sakharov (1921)
• Philip II of Spain (1527)
• Mary Robinson (1944)
• Willem Einthoven (1860)

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Tech Check

Linux Kernel, 2G Network (GSM) & Super Soaker.

Cost of Living (1990)