Template:On this day/May 21

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 21:

• 1888 – Western end of Santa Rosa Island (Punta de Sigüenza) was transferred to U.S. War Department by Executive Order.
• 1973 – Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. was promoted to lieutenant general, then the highest ranking African-American in the U.S. military.
• 1999 – Vanette Webb was suspended from the Escambia County School Board by Governor Jeb Bush.
• 2008 – Groundbreaking for the new Lucia M. Tryon Branch Library on Langley Avenue took place.