{"id":20077,"date":"2020-04-21T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20077"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:47:42","slug":"history-of-21-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-21-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 21 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 21 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years. He was put to death for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; In Sinking Spring, PA, a man chased his estranged girlfriend through town and then forced her car into the path of an oncoming train. The woman and her 3 passengers were killed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; North Carolina researchers announced that the heart of a 66 million-year-old dinosaur was more like a mammal or bird than that of a reptile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; The 1998 Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; In the city of General Santos, 14 people were killed and 69 were injured in a bomb attack on a department store. The attack was blamed on Muslim extremists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet-level talks the following week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; UNESCO launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two trains are involved in a\u00a0head-on collision\u00a0near\u00a0Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The American city of\u00a0Flint, Michigan\u00a0switches its water source to the\u00a0Flint River, beginning the ongoing\u00a0Flint water crisis\u00a0which has caused\u00a0lead poisoning\u00a0in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from\u00a0Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with\u00a0involuntary manslaughter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eight bombs explode\u00a0at churches, hotels, and other locations in\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0on\u00a0Easter Sunday, more than 200 people were killed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebration Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mads Junker, Danish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Khalif Barnes, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Micheal Luck, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carnell Williams, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pawe\u0142 Bro\u017cek, Polish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marco Donadel, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (d. 2020)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shayna Fox, American voice actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Audra Cohen, American tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mirko Valdifiori, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Devendorf, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leroy George, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adam Rooney, Irish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tatyana McFadden, Russian-American sprinter and skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carlos Mu\u00f1oz, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aleksandar Prijovi\u0107, Swiss-born Serbian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Isco, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rene Santos, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joc Pederson, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mitchell Weiser, German footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 21 April 1992 &#8211; Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years. He was put to death for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys. 1994 &#8211; Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane. 1998 &#8211; Astronomers announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1181,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-21-april","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5dP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20120,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20077\/revisions\/20120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}