What day of the week was May 21, 1991?

The day of the week May 21st, 1991 fell on was a Tuesday.

Lino Brocka the Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939) died on this day in 1991. As did Rajiv Gandhi the Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944) .

Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. Mengistu Haile Mariam the president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.