Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/May 21

May 21:

Film releases

• 1980 - Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• 2006 - Southland Tales, a science fiction/drama/black comedy film
• 2010 - Shrek Forever After

Television series

• 2006 - Charmed finishes airing on The WB

Births

• 1903 - Manly Wade Wellman (d. 1986), an American writer in the science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction genres