The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton (1821–1912) 
on this day in history, May 21, 1881.

Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas
Day, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, the American Red
Cross website notes.

She spent her early career as a teacher before moving to
Washington, D.C. to work in the U.S. Patent Office.

According to the American Red Cross, at the time of the
American Civil War Barton shifted her career once again,
becoming a battlefield nurse.    
 

Clara Barton was inducted into the National Women’s Hall
of Fame in 1973.

Members of the American Red Cross Corps in a photo taken around 1910.

Photo of a dispensary taken around 1914.

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Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget Field
in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop
transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between
New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit
of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York
33 1/2 hours before.

National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.

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Long before his stature in the world of show business earned
him the nickname “Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra was
known simply as “The Voice.”

Francis Sinatra died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998, at the
age of 82 with his immediate family by his side at Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Six days later, some 400 mourners attended his private funeral
at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly
Hills, with thousands more lining the streets outside.