On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on April 21:
1488 Ulrich von Hutten German poet/humanist/patriot
1619 John A van Riebeeck colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1729 Catharina II the Great, writer/emperess/strumpet of Russia (1762-96)
1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1775 Alexander Anderson US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1803 Levin Minn Powell Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Secretary of State (Confederacy)
1816 Charlotte Brontë Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall Confederate Army, died in 1874
1834 William Rufus Terrill Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1838 John Muir US, naturalist (discovered glaciers in High Sierras)
1849 Oskar Hertwig Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1864 Max Weber German sociologist/economist/historian (“The Protestant and the Spirit of Capitalism”)
1892 ? 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1905 Edmund G "Pat" Brown (Governor-Democrat-CA)
1911 Leonard Warren New York NY, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) died on stage
1913 Choh Hao Li biochemist professor (isolated growth hormones)
1913 Norman Parkinson England, fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar)
1915 Anthony Quinn Chihuahua México, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 Frick [W Groebli] Swiss clown (Frick & Frack)
1924 Ira Louvin Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1930 Don Tyson founder, Tyson Foods)
1935 Charles Grodin Pittsburgh PA, actor (Beethoven, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1937 Charles Lee Herron Kentucky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
1939 Ernie Maresca singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
1942 Bobby McClure US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing)
1947 Iggy Pop [James Newell Osterberg] Ypsilanti MI, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1951 Tony Danza Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
1958 Andie [Rosalie Anderson] MacDowell Gaffney SC, actress (Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Greystoke)
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin Russia, Major/cosmonaut
1963 AshlieinTX aka the HOTTEST thing in Texas. Reportedly said that her fondest wish when she grew up was to join Ma and cause as much trouble as possible while having the most fun possible while staying as close as possible to the right side of the law.
(Remember, you have your whole life to be mature, why start now?)
1971 Samantha Druce youngest woman to swim the English Channel
Deaths which occurred on April 21:
1073 Alexander II [Anselmo da Baggio] Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 Anselmus philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 Pierre Abélard French philosopher (Sic et Non, Héloïse), dies at 62
1509 Henry VII 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1552 Peter Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz] German astronomer, dies at 50
1574 Cosimo de Medici Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1730 Jan Palfijn Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1910 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding CT at 74
1918 "Red Baron" [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI at 25
1945 German Field Marshal Walther Model, known as the “Fuhrer‘s Fireman,” shot himself near Dusseldorf.
1946 John M Keynes English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1962 Frederick Handley Page designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1965 Edward V Appleton English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1971 François "Doc" Duvalier dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1973 Ursula Jeans [McMinn] actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1983 Walter Slezak actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80
1992 Robert Harris murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39
1992 Vladimir K Romanov Grand Duke/Russian pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev President of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies at 52
1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1997 Andres Rodriguez Paraguayan President (1989-93), dies
1997 Diosdado Macapagal Philippine President (1961-65), dies
2003 Ninone Simone (b.1933)(singer, dubbed the high priestess of soul, died.
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On this day...
0753 BC Traditional date of the foundation of Rome (as a refuge for runaway slaves and murderers who captured the neighboring Sabine women for wives.)
0953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1521 Battle at Villalar Emperor Charles I defeats Communards
1526 Battle at Panipat Mogol Emperor Babur defeats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary (20 years to complete his two-volume dictionary of more than 35,000 entries)
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from México
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi River, Rock Island IL-Davenport IA
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver CO
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1898 Spanish-American War begins (A splendid little war)
1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1910 Halley’s Comet visible in the night sky. Entrepreneurs peddled "comet gas masks" for people worried about the Earth's passage through poisonous cyanogen gas in the comet's tail.
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz México, stay 6 months
1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
1934 Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays American League record 117th cons errorless game
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold in US
1952 BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1959 Alf Dean (using a rod and reel) hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" great white shark (largest fish ever caught on a rod)
1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
1961 French army revolts in Algeria
1963 Dr Michael Ellis De Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1966 Pfc. Milton Lee Oliver was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for bravery during the Vietnam War
1967 Los Angeles Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49
1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explore Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1975 Members of the SLA robbed the Carmichael Bank in suburban Sacramento, Ca. Myrna Opsahl, a mother (42) of four, was shot dead. Patty Hearst drove the getaway car.
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1985 Bomb attack in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona)
1986 Geraldo "LOOK AT ME I'M GREAT" Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds.....nothing, zip zilch, nada.
1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1988 Tennessee Sen. Al Gore gave up his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, assuring supporters that "there will be other days for me and for the causes that matter to us." (It's never been reported just what those causes were)
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1993 Brazil voted against a monarchy.
1994 Serbian army bombs clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1995 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
1998 Skydivers from Malaysia parachuted the national car, the Proton Wira sedan, onto the North Pole this week.
2000 Scientists report that the 66 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur, Thescelosaurus, had a 4-chambered heart and was likely warm-blooded.
2003 The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) established as the temporary governing body of Iraq.
Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi (queen of spades), was captured by the Iraqi opposition. He was known as Saddam's "Shiite Thug" for his role in Iraq's bloody suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Belize, Hong Kong : Queen's Birthday
Brazil : Tiradentes Day/Día de Tiradentes/Brasilia Day (1789, 1960)
Indonesia : Kartini Day
Israel : Deliverance from Egypt
Taiwan : Death of Chiang Kai-shek/Tomb Sweeping Day (non leap years)
Texas : San Jacinto Day (1836)
US : Astronomy Week (Day 4)
US : National Lingerie Week (Day 4)
National Kindergarten Day
National Fresh Celery Month
Religious Observances
Ancient Rome : Parilia, honoring Pales, protector of flocks & herds
Denmark : Common Prayer
Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican : St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, confessor/doctor
Religious History
1649 The Toleration Act was passed by the Maryland Assembly. It protected Roman Catholics within the American colony against Protestant harassment, which had been rising as Oliver Cromwell's power in England increased.
1783 Birth of English churchman and hymnwriter Reginald Heber. Heber published his first hymn at 28, and among his best remembered today are: "Holy, Holy, Holy," "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" and "From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
1828 English churchman John Henry Newman wrote in a letter to his sister: 'May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.'
1878 Leo XIII published the encyclical, "Inscrutabili dei consilio." It outlined a program of reconciling the Catholic Church with modern civilization, many of its details reversing policies of his predecessor, Pius IX.
1897 Birth of A. W. Tozer, one of the most popular and influential pastors to come out of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. Tozer was also a prolific writer, and his best- known publications include "The Pursuit of God" (1948) and "The Root of Righteousness" (1955).
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be screwed up."
