Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In April - 21
Thursday, 03 April 2025
1985 On this day in history rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 
1986 On this day in history geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1986 On this day in history salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1987 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 on April - 21.
1988 On April - 21 barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know"
1989 On this day in history 100,000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square
1989 James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 on this day in history.
1990 On April - 21 "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 On April - 21 hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1994 On April - 21 clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 on this day in history.
1996 On this day in history a H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies on April - 21.
2005 On this day in history a bus crash in Vietnam's Central Highlands kills thirty Vietnamese war veterans.
2005 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 on April - 21.
2007 On April - 21 presidential elections are held in Nigeria.
2012 Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision on April - 21.
2013 On this day in history 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military
2014 Meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon on April - 21.
2017 On April - 21 taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
2018 On April - 21 oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox
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 On this day in history 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.
2021 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 on this day in history.
2021 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 on this day in history.
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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