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On this day: May 21

What happened in the Turkic world on May 21? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.

Events

1268 Siege of Antioch 1268 capture of Antioch by the Mamluk Sultanate
1959 EuroBasket 1959 basketball competition

Births

1930 Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev Uzbek politician (1930-2017)
1947 İlber Ortaylı Turkish historian (1947–2026)
1986 Varvara Lepchenko Ukrainian-American tennis player
1986 Gadir Guseinov Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
1988 Artur Akhmatkhuzin Olympic foil fencer
1993 Sukhrob Khodjaev Uzbekistani hammer thrower
1998 Osman Nurmagomedov Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler
1998 Aliabbas Rzazade Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler

Deaths

1920 Sultanmahmut Toraygirov Kazakhstani writer
2021 Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhov Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian artist (1928-2021)

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