April 21: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1856  The inaugural rail train to pass over the mighty Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, IL made its journey across a newly completed bridge between the two rail centers.   

1856  The inaugural railroad bridge across Mississippi completed   

1857  A Douglas patents the bustle   

1857  Alexander Douglas patents the bustle   

1861  USS Saratoga captures slaver, Nightingale.   

1862  Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co.   

1863  Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20).   

1863  Declaration of aha'u'llah; Baha'i Feast of Ridvan (Jalal 13, 20).   

1864  Max Weber, German sociologist is born   

1864  Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism).   

1865  Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington.   

1867  Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary   

1868  Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.   

1871  Leo Blech, composer.   

1871  Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies.   

1872  GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA   

1874  J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea   

1876  Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #162 Laurentia.   

1878  The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia   

1878  inaugural Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn   

1878  Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist.   

1878  Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62   

1881  Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)   

1884  Potters Field reopened as Madison Park   

1886  Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits).   

1887  Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer.   

1892  Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo   

1892  The inaugural buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.   

1892  Jaroslav Kvapil, composer.   

1894  George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," premieres in London   

1896  H de Montherlant, writer.   

1898  Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on inaugural at bat   

1898  Spanish-American War begins.   

1898  U.S. at war against Spain.   

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