This Day in History for 21st April

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Events 1 - 100 of 179

753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date).
43 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
953 - Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1420 - Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
1453 - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1509 - Henry the VIII becomes King of England
1521 - Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1526 - Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1572 - France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant
1600 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1654 - England & Sweden sign trade agreement
1689 - William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1739 - Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord
1785 - Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1794 - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1796 - Napoleon and the French defeat the Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
1818 - Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna
Lexicographer Noah Webster 1828 - Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1855 - 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
1857 - Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1862 - Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston
1863 - Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, enters gardens of Rivden, near Baghdad. Makes the declaration of aha'u'llah during 12 days spent there
1865 - Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 - First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1878 - Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1884 - Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 - Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1894 - George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man," premieres in London
Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1898 - Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
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.
1904 - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1908 - Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1910 - Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
1913 - German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1913 - Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1914 - US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1920 - John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London
1921 - Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4]
1922 - The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year.
1925 - Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
1925 - No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
1925 - Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels," premieres in London
Fighter Ace The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) 1930 - Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow
1934 - Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game
1935 - King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940 - 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio
1940 - Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
1941 - Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1944 - NFL Chic Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1945 - Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 - He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1945 - Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London
1945 - Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 - US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1946 - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1948 - 2nd NBA Championship: Balt Bullets beat Phila Warriors, 4 games to 2
1951 - 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1951 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1
1952 - BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1952 - Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1954 - Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1955 - Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season
1955 - J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind," premieres in NYC
1955 - Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1959 - 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1959 - Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
1960 - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1960 - Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
1961 - Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1961 - French army revolts in Algeria
1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
1962 - Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1963 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open
1963 - The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time.
1964 - Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1965 - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 - Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1967 - Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 - EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands
1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to US
1967 - Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1968 - 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 210

1488 - Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot
1546 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1619 - John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1651 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
1672 - Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
1673 - Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
1713 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France
1730 - Antonin Kammel, composer
1749 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer
1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1775 - Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1779 - William Knyvett, composer
1795 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint
1803 - Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1806 - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
1809 - Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
1810 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
1811 - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
1814 - Beni Egressy, composer
1816 - Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 - Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874
1824 - Anselmo Clave, composer
1828 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
1834 - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1838 - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras)
1838 - Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match)
1840 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1849 - Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1851 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
1853 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
1854 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons
1854 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
1854 - William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
1864 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1867 - Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary
1870 - Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
1871 - Leo Blech, composer
1871 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
1872 - GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
1878 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist
1879 - Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
1881 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1886 - Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits)
1887 - Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer
1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1892 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
1896 - Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte)
1898 - Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants)
1899 - Clement D'Hooghe, composer
1899 - Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant)
1901 - Julian Bautista, composer
1902 - Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman, recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard)
1903 - Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark (1947..55)
1904 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)
1905 - Edmund G "Pat" Brown, (Gov-D-California)
1905 - Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
1906 - Tom Burns, editor
1907 - Antoni Szalowski, composer
1907 - Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col)
1908 - Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight, Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1909 - Rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will)
1911 - Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone, Met 1939-60) died on stage
1911 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
1912 - Feike P Asma, Dutch organist
1912 - Marcel Camus, French director, Orfeu negro)
1912 - Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen, actress, Kniertje-Op Hoop van Zegen)
1912 - Eve Arnold, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photojournalist (Marilyn Monroe) (d. 2012)
1913 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones)
1913 - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
1913 - Norman Parkinson, England, fashion photographer, Harper's Bazaar)
1914 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Andor Kovach, composer
1915 - Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 - Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown, Frick & Frack)
1916 - Sidney Clute, Brooklyn NY, actor, Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey)
1917 - Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82)
1919 - Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper)
1919 - John Goddard, cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57)
1919 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
1920 - Christopher Dark, NY, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
1920 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1921 - Jack Fletcher, Forest Hills NY, actor, Grady, Bob Crane Show)
1922 - Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s)
1923 - Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress, (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel)
1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer
1924 - Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer, Get Smart)
1924 - Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
Queen Elizabeth II (1926) 1926 - Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of England, 1952- )
1926 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
1927 - Robert Brustein, NYC, dean, Yale School of Drama)
1927 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
1930 - Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods)
1930 - Silvana Mangano, Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1993 - Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
2006 - Professional drag racer Andrew Hines (22) weds Tanya Phillips at the First Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida
2007 - Bolivian model Carla Moron weds architect Pedro Gantier at la Iglesia San Francisco de Santa Cruz
2007 - Pop singer sensation Anastacia (38) weds her bodyguard Wayne Newton at the Quinta Real Huatulco in Huatulco, Mexico
2012 - Actress Carey Mulligan (26) weds "Mumford & Sons" lead singer Marcus Mumford (25) in Somerset, England
2012 - Music legend Neil Diamond (71) weds music manager Katie McNeil (42) at the Beverly Hills Hotel

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 103

1073 - Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 - Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 - Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1552 - Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50
1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 - Cosimo de Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1652 - Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1696 - Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
1730 - Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1736 - Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1780 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60
1792 - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1868 - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1871 - Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1878 - Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1898 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1899 - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1900 - Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
1918 - "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
Fighter Ace The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) (1918) 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25
1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 - Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
1930 - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1930 - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1938 - Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
1939 - Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
1945 - John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1946 - Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1948 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1952 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1961 - James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1962 - Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1965 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1967 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1968 - Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
1968 - Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1971 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1971 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1973 - Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1974 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1975 - Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
1977 - Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1978 - Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1980 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1981 - Harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies
1982 - Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1985 - Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1985 - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
1985 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
1986 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1987 - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1989 - James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
1990 - Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
1991 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
1992 - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39
1992 - Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1993 - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1994 - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
1995 - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1996 - A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52
1996 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1996 - Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76
1996 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93
1996 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
1997 - Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1997 - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
1998 - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
1999 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2006 - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931)
2007 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
2008 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)