Page 8: 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  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  Barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know" on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1990  On April - 21 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  "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway on April - 21.   

1992  Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39 on April - 21.   

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  On this day in history 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  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  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  On this day in history 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military   

2014  On this day in history meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon   

2017  Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100 on April - 21.   

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

2019  On April - 21 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 April - 21.   

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 this day in history 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  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  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 on this day in history.   

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

1546  On April - 21 birth of arcangelo Crivelli, composer   

1555  Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619) was born on April - 21.   

1619  On this day in history birth of john A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)   

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

1652  Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) was born on April - 21.   

1671  John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

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

1073  Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1509  Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 on April - 21.   

1551  On this day in history death of oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)   

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)