Interesting things that happened April 21st:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1491 Henry VIII, king of England
In 1816 Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre"
In 1838 John Muir, naturalist
In 1915 Anthony Quinn, actor
+ Frick (of Frick and Frack)
In 1918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
In 1926 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
In 1930 Silvana Mangano, actor (Bitter Rice, Dune, Death in Venice)
In 1932 Elaine May (in Philadelphia)
In 1949 Patti LuPone, actor, singer
In 1951 Tony Danza, actor
In 1958 Andie MacDowell (Gaffney, SC), actor (***, lies and videotape)
Events worth noting:
In 753 B.C. The City of Rome founded (according to legend).
In 1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of wor****p.
In 1789 John Adams sworn in as first U.S. Vice President.
In 1828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary.
In 1836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeat the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
In 1855 First train crosses Mississippi River's first bridge stretching
from
Rock Island, Illinois, to Daven****t, Iowa.
In 1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
In 1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Wa****ngton.
In 1892 First buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
In 1898 Spanish American war begins.
In 1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach the North Pole (He didn't).
In 1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) dies at Redding, Conn.
In 1918 The "Red" Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, is shot down and killed
in
World War I air battle.
In 1940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" asked the first $64 question on
CBS.
In 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) enters US at New York on
a
visitor's visa, completing her defection.
In 1972 John Young, Charles Duke explore Moon on Apollo XVI.
In 1975 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese President, resigns.
In 1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing.
In 1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beat Blue Jay
8-6.
+ Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2377 performances.
In 1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched.
In 1986 "Al Capone's secret vault" opened live on TV by Geraldo Rivera.
(No
piles of money or crates of hootch; it was mostly empty.)
And remember ...
America's Heartland Development Month
Cancer Control Month
Math Education Month
National Poetry Month
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