April 21
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April 21 is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 254 days remaining after April 21 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1488 – Ulrich von Hutten, German humanist (d. 1523)
- 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
- 1673 – Wilhelmina of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1742)
- 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
- 1730 – Antonin Kammel, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1788)
- 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1862)
- 1782 – Friedrich Froebel, German educator (d. 1852)
- 1790 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean officer and politician (d. 1876)
- 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English writer (d. 1855)
- 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician (d. 1922)
- 1838 – John Muir, Scottish conservationist, environmentalist and author (d. 1914)
- 1864 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
- 1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (d. 1904)
- 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist (d. 1961)
- 1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (d. 1971)
- 1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher and conductor (d. 1985)
- 1889 – Manuel Prado Ugarteche, President of Peru (d. 1967)
- 1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1905 – Pat Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Ivan Combe, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
- 1912 – Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Eve Arnold, American photographer (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
- 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1920 – Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1973)
- 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
- 1922 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
- 1925 – Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (d. 1988)
- 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- 1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
- 1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
- 1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (d. 2009)
- 1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
- 1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
- 1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
- 1969 – Toby Stephens, British actor
- 1969 – Robin Meade, American news anchor
- 1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
- 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
- 1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
- 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
- 1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
- 1983 – Pawel Brozek, Polish footballer
- 1983 – Marco Donadel, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986 – Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player
- 1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball
- 2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark
[change] Deaths
- 43 BC – Aulus Hirtius, Roman writer and politician (b. 90 BC)
- 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1033)
- 1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
- 1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
- 1574 – Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
- 1699 – Jean Racine, French writer (b. 1639)
- 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
- 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
- 1910 – Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835)
- 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (b. 1892)
- 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
- 1938 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (b. 1877)
- 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
- 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist (b. 1892)
- 1971 – Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc), dictator of Haiti (b. 1907)
- 1973 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist, writer and architect (b. 1895)
- 1985 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician, President-elect (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist (b. 1892)
- 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
- 2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
- 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Olympic official (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Charles Colson, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1931)
[change] Events
- 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional).
- 1509 – Henry VIII of England becomes King, after the death of his father, Henry VII of England.
- 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1863 – Bahá'u'lláh is proclaimed as the head of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1863 – Quantrill's Raiders launch a reprisal raid Lawrence, Kansas in the Battle of Lawrence, killing a number of civilians.
- 1889 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Edgar is first performed in Milan.
- 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
- 1908 – North Pole dispute: Fredrick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, almost a year before Robert Peary claims to have reached it, on April 6, 1909.
- 1912 – The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
- 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied fire over Vaux sur Somme in France.
- 1930 – A fire at a Columbus, Ohio, USA, penitentiary kills 320 people.
- 1935 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Taiwan, killing 3,276 people.
- 1944 – Women in France receive the right to vote.
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
- 1952 – Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
- 1955 – Bob Hope's radio program airs its last segment.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley's song "Heartbreak Hotel" becomes the "King's" first song to reach the top of the Cash Box magazine music charts.
- 1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
- 1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i faith in Washington, DC.
- 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
- 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
- 1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
- 1985 – Ayrton Senna wins the first of 41 Formula One championship races at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.
- 1986 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
- 1987 – The Tamil Tigers is blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people.
- 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
- 1989 – Nintendo releases the Game Boy, an idea of Gunpei Yokoi.
- 1992 – U.S. death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.
- 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
- 2002 – French Presidential Election: In the first round Jacques Chirac comes through, along with National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- 2004 – Suicide bombers target police stations in Basra, Iraq, killing 74 people.
- 2005 – John Negroponte becomes the first United States Director of National Intelligence.
- 2010 – After a week of being shut down due to the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, UK airspace reopens.
[change] Observances
- John Muir Day (California)
