{"id":4335,"date":"2023-04-21T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:38:03","slug":"history-of-21-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-21-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 21 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 21 April<\/h1>\n

1914<\/strong> – U.S. Marines occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico. The troops stayed for six months.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> – Bill Carlisle, the infamous \u2018last train robber,\u2019 robbed a train in Hanna, WY.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> – German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, “The Red Baron,” was shot down and killed during World War I.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> – “Take It or Leave It” premiered on CBS Radio.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – In New York, the Sidney Janis Gallery held the Dada exhibition.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> – Leonard Ross, age 10, became the youngest prizewinner on the “The Big Surprise”. He won $100,000.<\/p>\n

1959<\/strong> – Alf Dean caught a 16-foot, 10-inch white shark that weighed 2,664 pounds. At the time it was the largest catch with a rod and reel.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – Brasilia became the capital of Brazil.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> – The French army revolted in Algeria.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – Svetlana Alliluyeva (Svetlana Stalina) defected in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – In Athens, Army colonels took over the government and installed Constantine Kollias as premier.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 16<\/i>\u00a0astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned, condemning the United States.<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong> – “Annie” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – In France, it was announced that doctors had found the virus believed to cause AIDS.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Manuel Ortega proposed a cease-fire for Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Special occasion stamps were offered for the first time by the U.S. Postal Service. “Happy Birthday” and “Get Well” were among the first to be offered.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Japan.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – 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 teenage boys.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet-level talks the following week.<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The controversial\u00a0Kharkiv Pact\u00a0(Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in\u00a0Kharkiv, Ukraine, by\u00a0Ukrainian President\u00a0Viktor Yanukovych\u00a0and\u00a0Russian President\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two trains are involved in a\u00a0head-on collision\u00a0near\u00a0Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mads Junker, Danish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Khalif Barnes, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Micheal Luck, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carnell Williams, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pawe\u0142 Bro\u017cek, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marco Donadel, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shayna Fox, American voice actress<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Audra Cohen, an American tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mirko Valdifiori, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Devendorf, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leroy George, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian singer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adam Rooney, Irish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tatyana McFadden, Russian-American sprinter and skier<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carlos Mu\u00f1oz, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aleksandar Prijovi\u0107, Swiss-born Serbian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Isco, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rene Santos, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joc Pederson, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mitchell Weiser, German footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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