Today in History - May 21

 1554  -  Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England (Source)

John Knox has been quoted as saying (About Mary, Queen of Scots): "If you strike not the root, the branches will grow again."

For information on Mary's more well-known relatives, Mary Tudor (ada Bloody Mary), Queen Elizabeth I, check out the following:

Church History: English Reformation, by Matt Powell
Antichrist Rages in England: Bloody Mary: God's Tool of Reformation, by W. J. Mencarow [Text: Revelation 11, 18]
Bloody Mary, Part 1, by Rev. John Sawtelle
Bloody Mary, Part 2, by Rev. John Sawtelle
Elizabeth I, Part I, by Joe Morecraft III
Elizabeth I, Part II, by Joe Morecraft III

1703 - Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel (Source)

Note: Daniel Defoe is the author of Swiss Family Robinson

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Disney Censors Peter Pan, Dumbo, and Swiss Family Robinson, by Adam McManus (Worldview in Five Minutes)

2011 - Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Return of Family Radio As Friend, Ally, and Platform for Christ's Church, by Tom Evans (2018)
To Harold Camping and Other False Prophets 99 Reasons Why No One Knows Jesus Will Return, by Larry Wessels [Text: Titus 1:7,11; Matthew 24:36] (2011)
Harold Camping - False Prophet, by Rev. John Greer [Text: Matthew 24:29-44] (2011)
Camping Confounded - But God's Word Still Stands, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton [Text: Luke 17]

Recommended reading:

 The End is Near (And It Can't Come Fast Enough!) - townhall.com

Excerpt from this article:

"In 12 years, we'll all be dead. An unstoppable force will wipe out all of humanity, most of the animals, and even some of the cockroaches. It's not climate change, it's the smugness of the true believers, the brainwashed masses of millennials who will one day be in positions to implement the absolute bat-feces crazy ideas they are espousing today."