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 April - 21.  

1986  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1989  On April - 21 james Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64  

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

1990  National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards on April - 21.  

1990  Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies on April - 21.  

1991  On April - 21 richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74  

1992  "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway on this day in history.  

1992  On April - 21 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  Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 on April - 21.  

1995  On this day in history 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  Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies on April - 21.  

2005  On April - 21 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  On this day in history presidential elections are held in Nigeria.  

2012  Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision on this day in history.  

2013  185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military on this day in history.  

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

2017  Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100 on this day in history.  

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

2019  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 on this day in history.  

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  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.  

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  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 April - 21.  

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

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  Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1672  On April - 21 birth of johann Philipp Kafer, composer  

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

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

1142  On April - 21 death of pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)  

1329  Death of Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) on this day in history.  

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

1551  Death of Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) on April - 21.  

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

1557  Death of Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) on this day in history.