Historical Events In April - 21

1985  Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1986  Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing on this day in history.   

1986  Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) on April - 21.   

1987  On April - 21 edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77   

1988  On April - 21 barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know"   

1989  100,000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square on April - 21.   

1989  James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 on April - 21.   

1990  "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks on April - 21.   

1990  On this day in history national League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards   

1990  On this day in history johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies   

1991  Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 on April - 21.   

1992  On April - 21 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway   

1992  On this day in history robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39   

1993  Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 on April - 21.   

1994  Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1995  On April - 21 robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93   

1996  A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies on this day in history.   

1997  Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies on this day in history.   

2005  On April - 21 a bus crash in Vietnam's Central Highlands kills thirty Vietnamese war veterans.   

2005  On April - 21 a gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca kills two militants and two members of the security forces.2007 Presidential elections are held in Nigeria.   

2007  Presidential elections are held in Nigeria on this day in history.   

2012  Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision on this day in history.   

2013  On April - 21 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military   

2014  On April - 21 meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon   

2017  On April - 21 taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100   

2018  Oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox on this day in history.   

2019  On this day in history teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid city-wide climate protests where Waterloo Bridge was occupied over four days   

2019  A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter Sunday, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured. This is the first major terrorist attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009 on this day in history.   

2019  On this day in history comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine in a runoff election. Zelensky previously portrayed a fictional Ukrainian president in the television series Servant of the People.   

2020  Mozambique police say 52 male villagers were killed by Islamist militants earlier this month in Muidumbe District, Cabo Delgado Province, after they refused to join their ranks on this day in history.   

2021  On April - 21 russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a "red line" in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border   

2021  On this day in history cOVID-19 pandemic: With global case numbers approaching a second peak, India reports 315,000 infections within 24 hours, the highest one-day tally recorded anywhere in the world to date.   

2023  On this day in history the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, representing a majority of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his support for same-sex marriage.   

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1488  On this day in history birth of ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot   

1546  Arcangelo Crivelli, composer was born on April - 21.   

1555  On April - 21 birth of ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)   

1619  John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony) was born on this day in history.   

1651  On this day in history birth of blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)   

1652  On this day in history birth of michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)   

1671  John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729) was born on April - 21.   

1672  Johann Philipp Kafer, composer was born on this day in history.   

1073  On this day in history alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies   

1109  On this day in history anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies   

1142  On April - 21 death of pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)   

1329  Death of Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) on April - 21.   

1509  On this day in history henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52   

1551  Death of Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) on April - 21.   

1552  Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 on April - 21.   

1557  Death of Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) on April - 21.