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

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

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

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

1991  On this day in history richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74  

1992  On this day in history "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 this day in history 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 April - 21.  

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

1997  On this day in history andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies  

2005  On this day in history 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 April - 21.  

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

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

2014  Meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon on this day in history.  

2017  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.  

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 April - 21.  

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1488  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot was born on April - 21.  

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

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

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

1671  On April - 21 birth of john Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)  

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

1073  Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies on April - 21.  

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 this day in history death of frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)  

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

1551  On April - 21 death of oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)  

1552  Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

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