Historical Events In April - 21

1985  On this day in history rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62  

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

1986  On April - 21 salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)  

1987  Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 on April - 21.  

1988  Barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know" on April - 21.  

1989  100,000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1990  On April - 21 national League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards  

1990  Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies on this day in history.  

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  Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39 on April - 21.  

1993  On April - 21 hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82  

1994  On this day in history clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93  

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

1996  On April - 21 a H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies  

1997  On April - 21 andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies  

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

2005  On this day in history 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 April - 21.  

2012  On April - 21 two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision  

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

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

2017  On this day in history taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100  

2018  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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.  

2019  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 on this day in history.  

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 April - 21.  

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 April - 21 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.  

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1488  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot was born on this day in history.  

1546  On this day in history birth of arcangelo Crivelli, composer  

1555  On this day in history birth of ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)  

1619  John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony) was born on April - 21.  

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

1652  On April - 21 birth of michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)  

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

1672  On this day in history birth of johann Philipp Kafer, composer  

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

1109  Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies on this day in history.  

1142  Death of Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) on this day in history.  

1329  On April - 21 death of frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)  

1509  On April - 21 henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52  

1551  Death of Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) on this day in history.  

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

1557  On this day in history death of petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)