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- THIS DAY IN HISTORY -
Johnny Carson Last Tonight Show21st May ( 1992 ) : Johnny Carson performed his last tonight show before an invited audience of celebrities and family after 3 decades
Direct Dial Phone Calls Announced21st May ( 1958 ) : The Postmaster General Ernest Marples has announces that from next year the new automated telephone connection which will make calls easier and cheaper because no telephone operator will be needed will begin in Bristol and slowly be rolled out countrywide in the next 10 years. The price of a direct dial call will start at 2d ( less than 1p )and a three-minute call will cost 2s 6d, ( 12 1/2p ) ( It is easy to forget that before 1960 most phone calls were done via an operator in the US and around the world )
Rajiv Gandhi Assassinated21st May ( 1991 ) : Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated when a bomb explodes during election campaigning in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Charles Lindbergh21st May ( 1927 ) Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, completing the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh was the dark horse when he entered a competition for a $25,000 prize to anyone able to fly nonstop from New York to Paris
