Page 8: Historical Events In April - 21

1985  Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 on April - 21.   

1986  Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing on April - 21.   

1986  Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) on April - 21.   

1987  Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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 April - 21.   

1989  On this day in history 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  On this day in history national League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards   

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 April - 21.   

1992  On this day in history robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39   

1993  Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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 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 this day in history.   

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 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  Oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox on April - 21.   

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 April - 21.   

2019  On April - 21 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  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  On April - 21 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 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.   

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 April - 21.   

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

1546  Arcangelo Crivelli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1555  On April - 21 birth of ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)   

1619  John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony) was born on this day in history.   

1651  Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711) was born on April - 21.   

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

1671  On this day in history birth of john Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)   

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

1073  On April - 21 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 April - 21.   

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)