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

1987  On this day in history edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77  

1988  On this day in history barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know"  

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

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.  

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

1994  Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 on April - 21.  

1995  Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 on this day in history.  

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

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 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  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 April - 21.  

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

2014  Meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon on April - 21.  

2017  On April - 21 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 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  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  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.  

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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 this day in history.  

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

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

1652  Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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 April - 21.  

1329  On April - 21 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  Death of Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) on this day in history.  

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.