This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
04/21/1546 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer 
04/21/1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony) 
04/21/1672 Johann Philipp Kafer, composer 
04/21/1713 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France 
04/21/1729 Catharina II, the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96) 
04/21/1730 Antonin Kammel, composer 
04/21/1749 Johann Michael Malzat, composer 
04/21/1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist) 
04/21/1775 Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare) 
04/21/1779 William Knyvett, composer 
04/21/1782 Friedrich W A Fr”bel, German educator (founded kindergarten) 
04/21/1795 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint 
04/21/1803 Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885 
04/21/1806 Peter van Schendel, painter 
04/21/1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy) 
04/21/1814 Beni Egressy, composer 
04/21/1816 Charlotte Bront‰, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre) 
04/21/1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874 
04/21/1824 Anselmo Clave, composer 
04/21/1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage & Italy) 
04/21/1834 William Rufus Terrill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

04/21/1837 Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) 
04/21/1838 John Muir, US, naturalist, discovered glaciers in High Seirras 
04/21/1840 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis) 
04/21/1849 Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization 
04/21/1853 Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer 
04/21/1854 Eusapia Palladino 
04/21/1854 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer 
04/21/1864 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) 
04/21/1867 Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary 
04/21/1871 Leo Blech, composer 
04/21/1871 Vojtech Rihovsky, composer 
04/21/1878 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist 
04/21/1886 Charlie Naughton, (Frozen Limits) 
04/21/1887 Lillian Walker, entertainer 
04/21/1889 Efrem Alexandrovich Zimbalist, composer 
04/21/1892 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer 
04/21/1896 Attila H”rbiger, Austrian actor (Die Grosse Liebe, Die Julika) 
04/21/1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author (La Reine Morte) 
04/21/1898 Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants) 
04/21/1899 Clement D'Hooghe, composer 
04/21/1899 Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant) 
04/21/1901 Julian Bautista, composer 
04/21/1903 Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark 
04/21/1904 G˜sbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67) 
04/21/1904 Jean H‚lion, artist/author (They Shall Not Have Me) 
04/21/1905 Edmund G 'Pat' Brown, (Gov-D-Calif) 
04/21/1907 Antoni Szalowski, composer 
04/21/1907 Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & Col) 
04/21/1908 Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1932, 36) 
04/21/1909 Rollo May, US, psychologist (Love & Will) 
04/21/1911 Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone (Met 1939-60) died on stage 
04/21/1912 Feike P Asma, organist 
04/21/1912 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu negro) 
04/21/1912 Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen, actress (Kniertje in on hoop of zegen) 
04/21/1913 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones) 
04/21/1913 Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician 
04/21/1913 Norman Parkinson, England, fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar) 
04/21/1915 Andor Kovach, composer 
04/21/1915 Anthony Quinn, M‚xico, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia) 
04/21/1915 Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown (Frick & Frack 
04/21/1916 Sidney Clute, Brooklyn NY, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey) 
04/21/1917 Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist (SD Symph 1978-82) 
04/21/1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng (Oper Grasshoppe

04/21/1920 Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Hyperion) 
04/21/1920 Christopher Dark, actor (Suddenly, Tenderfoot) 
04/21/1923 Andrea Domburg, actress (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel) 
04/21/1924 Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer (Get Smart) 
04/21/1924 Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers) 
04/21/1926 Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of England (1952-  ) 
04/21/1927 Robert Brustein, NYC, dean (Yale School of Drama) 
04/21/1930 Margaret Rose, London England, Princess of York 
04/21/1930 Silvana Mangano, Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas) 
04/21/1932 Elaine May, Phila Pa, comedienne/writer/actress (New Leaf) 
04/21/1933 Easley Blackwood, Indianapolis In, composer (Un Voyage   Cythere) 
04/21/1935 Charles Grodin, actor (Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid) 
04/21/1935 Robin Dixon, England, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1960) 
04/21/1936 Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer 
04/21/1936 Bob Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960) 
04/21/1937 Charles Lee Herron, Ky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986) 
04/21/1939 John McCabe, composer 
04/21/1941 David L Boren, (Sen-D Oklahoma) 
04/21/1942 Bobby McClure, US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing) 
04/21/1947 Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse) 
04/21/1947 John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment) 
04/21/1948 Gary A Condit, (Rep-D-California) 
04/21/1948 Paul Davis, Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy) 
04/21/1949 Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On) 
04/21/1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveikin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2) 
04/21/1951 Paul Carrack, rocker (Squeeze/Ace-How Long) 
04/21/1951 Tony Danza, Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)

04/21/1956 Rick DeMont, US, 400m swimmer, drug disqualification (1972 Olympics)

04/21/1957 Jesse Orosoco, baseball relief pitcher (NY Mets, LA Dodgers) 
04/21/1958 Andie MacDowell, [Rosalie Anderson], Gaffney SC, actress (Green Card

04/21/1959 Robert Smith, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen) 
04/21/1960 Julius Korir, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1984) 
04/21/1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, Russia, major/cosmonaut 
04/21/1963 John Cameron Mitchell, actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand) 
04/21/1965 Karen Foster, Lufkin Tx, playmate (Oct, 1989) 
04/21/1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel 
04/21/1978 Avi Phillips, Ontario, actor (Maniac Mansion) 
04/21/1984 Ashley Peldon, Staten Is NY, actress (Marsha Lewis-Guilding Light) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/21/1073 Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies 
04/21/1109 Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies 
04/21/1142 Pierre Ab‚lard, French philosopher (Sic et Nun, H‚lo‹se), dies at 62

04/21/1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies 
04/21/1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 
04/21/1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 
04/21/1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 
04/21/1730 John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 
04/21/1736 French E van Savoye, Austria army commander, dies at 72 
04/21/1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 
04/21/1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 
04/21/1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 
04/21/1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 
04/21/1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 
04/21/1910 Mark Twain, [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author, dies in Redding Conn

04/21/1918 'Red Baron', [Manfred von Richtofen], killed in WW I 
04/21/1924 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies 
04/21/1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Mother), dies 
04/21/1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 
04/21/1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch east indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, die

04/21/1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 
04/21/1946 John M Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?, dies 
04/21/1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 
04/21/1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 
04/21/1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 
04/21/1962 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), die

04/21/1967 Andr‚ L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 
04/21/1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 
04/21/1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt 
04/21/1971 Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 
04/21/1971 Fran‡ois 'Doc' Duvalier, dictator Ha‹ti, dies at 64 
04/21/1973 Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 
04/21/1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 
04/21/1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 
04/21/1982 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 8

04/21/1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Lifeboat), commits suicide at his NY home at 8

04/21/1985 Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 
04/21/1985 Tancredo Neves, President (Civil rights activist), dies at 75 
04/21/1987 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 
04/21/1989 James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 
04/21/1990 Ert‚, art deco stylist, dies at 97 
04/21/1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games 
04/21/1991 Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 
04/21/1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies 
04/21/1992 Robert Harris, executed in Calif's gas chamber, at 39 
04/21/1992 Vladimir Romanov, pretender to Russian throne, dies at 74 
04/21/1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/21/ 753 -BC- Traditional date of foundation of Rome 
04/21/ 953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights 
04/21/1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike 
04/21/1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople 
04/21/1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS) 
04/21/1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship 
04/21/1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England 
04/21/1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington) 
04/21/1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary 
04/21/1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M‚xico 
04/21/1855 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia 
04/21/1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi completed 
04/21/1857 A Douglas patents bustle 
04/21/1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co 
04/21/1863 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20) 
04/21/1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington 
04/21/1874 J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea 
04/21/1876 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #162 Laurentia 
04/21/1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 
04/21/1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park 
04/21/1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo 
04/21/1898 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat 
04/21/1898 Spanish-American War begins 
04/21/1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #470 Kilia 
04/21/1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't) 
04/21/1910 Cleve Indians play 1st game at League Park, lose to Tigers 5-0 
04/21/1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground 
04/21/1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months 
04/21/1921 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 
04/21/1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR 
04/21/1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322 
04/21/1933 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1264 Letaba 
04/21/1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political Party 
04/21/1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1505 Koranna 
04/21/1940 1st $64 Question, 'Take It or Leave It', on CBS Radio 
04/21/1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer 
04/21/1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany 
04/21/1944 NFL Chic Cardinals & Pitts Steelers merge (disolves on Dec 3) 
04/21/1945 He Shima in. Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die 
04/21/1945 Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin 
04/21/1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany 
04/21/1948 Baltimore beats Philadelphia, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship 
04/21/1951 Rochester beats New York, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship 
04/21/1951 Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
04/21/1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) 
04/21/1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR 
04/21/1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 
04/21/1955 Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season 
04/21/1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die 
04/21/1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod 
04/21/1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10' white shark 
04/21/1960 Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil 
04/21/1961 Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO 
04/21/1961 French army revolts in Algeria 
04/21/1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m 
04/21/1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington 
04/21/1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time 
04/21/1964 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5 
04/21/1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season 
04/21/1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica 
04/21/1967 Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games) 
04/21/1967 EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands 
04/21/1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier 
04/21/1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC 
04/21/1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon 
04/21/1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) 
04/21/1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched 
04/21/1975 Bill Rodgers wins his 1st Boston Marathon in 2:9:55 
04/21/1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

04/21/1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing 
04/21/1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6 
04/21/1977 Broadway play 'Annie' opens, 1st of 2,377 performances 
04/21/1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh 
04/21/1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia 
04/21/1982 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game 
04/21/1982 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress 
04/21/1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2991 
04/21/1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?] 
04/21/1983 œ1 coin introduced in United Kingdom 
04/21/1984 'Nightline' reverts back from 1 hour to « hour 
04/21/1984 After 37 weeks, 'Thriller' is knocked off as top album by 'Footloose

04/21/1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph 
04/21/1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels 
04/21/1985 Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead 
04/21/1985 Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06 
04/21/1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) 
04/21/1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing 
04/21/1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season 
04/21/1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed 
04/21/1988 Barbra Striesand records 'You'll Never Know' 
04/21/1989 George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers 
04/21/1990 'Cartoon All Stars to Rescue' shown on all 4 TV networks 
04/21/1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards 
04/21/1992 'High Rollers' opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway 
04/21/1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill 
04/21/1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy 
04/21/1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria 
04/21/1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed 
  
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