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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of November -0001 | EVENT | The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander and Chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah. Luzon, Philippines. |
| 21st of April 1509 | EVENT | Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII. |
| 21st of April 1519 | EVENT | Hernan Cortes lands in Veracruz, Veracruz |
| 21st of April 1792 | EVENT | Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered. |
| 21st of April 1809 | EVENT | Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmuhl. |
| 21st of April 1836 | EVENT | Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto : Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. |
| 21st of April 1863 | EVENT | Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest". |
| 21st of April 1894 | EVENT | Norway formally adopts the Krag-J?rgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years. |
| 21st of April 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date. |
| 21st of April 1918 | EVENT | World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France. |
| 21st of April 1922 | EVENT | The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year. |
| 21st of April 1941 | EVENT | Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. |
| 21st of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Texas A&M graduates who are under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack. |
| 21st of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters. |
| 21st of April 1952 | EVENT | Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated. |
| 21st of April 1960 | EVENT | Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith in Washington, D.C. |
| 21st of April 1960 | EVENT | Brasilia, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro. |
| 21st of April 1962 | EVENT | The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II. |
| 21st of April 1963 | EVENT | The Universal House of Justice of the Baha'i Faith is elected for the first time. |
| 21st of April 1964 | EVENT | A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed. |
| 21st of April 1965 | EVENT | The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season. |
| 21st of April 1966 | EVENT | Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day. |
| 21st of April 1967 | EVENT | Greek military junta of 1967 : 1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'etat, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years. |
| 21st of April 1970 | EVENT | The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia. |
| 21st of April 1975 | EVENT | Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls. |
| 21st of April 1982 | EVENT | Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves. |
| 21st of April 1987 | EVENT | The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people. |
| 21st of April 1989 | EVENT | Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang. |
| 21st of April 1993 | EVENT | The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution. |
| 21st of April 1994 | EVENT | The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan. |
| 21st of April 2004 | EVENT | Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160. |
| 21st of April 1555 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619) |
| 21st of April 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711) |
| 21st of April 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) |
| 21st of April 1671 | BIRTHDAY | John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729) |
| 21st of April 1673 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742) |
| 21st of April 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793) |
| 21st of April 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine II of Russia, known as 'Catherine the Great' (d. 1796) |
| 21st of April 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Wurttemberg, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1790) |
| 21st of April 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862) |
| 21st of April 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870) |
| 21st of April 1810 | BIRTHDAY | John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864) |
| 21st of April 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903) |
| 21st of April 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906) |
| 21st of April 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Bronte, English author (d. 1855) |
| 21st of April 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922) |
| 21st of April 1838 | BIRTHDAY | John Muir, Scottish environmentalist (d. 1914) |
| 21st of April 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939) |
| 21st of April 1854 | BIRTHDAY | William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907) |
| 21st of April 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920) |
| 21st of April 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941) |
| 21st of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904) |
| 21st of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961) |
| 21st of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978) |
| 21st of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
| 21st of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Wilson, Everest climber, Yorkshire hero (d. 1934) |
| 21st of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945) |
| 21st of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996) |
| 21st of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist |
| 21st of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000) |
| 21st of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Warren, American opera baritone (d. 1960) |
| 21st of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982) |
| 21st of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 21st of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001) |
| 21st of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (d. 2003) |
| 21st of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer and guitarist |
| 21st of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004) |
| 21st of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007) |
| 21st of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991) |
| 21st of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009) |
| 21st of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Louvin, Country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1965) |
| 21st of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of Australia |
| 21st of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002) |
| 21st of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth II, Queen of the Commonwealth realms |
| 21st of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989) |
| 21st of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989) |
| 21st of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine May, American comedian |
| 21st of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Grodin, American actor |
| 21st of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Kean, American politician |
| 21st of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Dobson, American evangelist |
| 21st of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Prejean, American author and activist |
| 21st of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach |
| 21st of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000) |
| 21st of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges) |
| 21st of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family) |
| 21st of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Condit, American politician |
| 21st of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Davis, American singer (d. 2008) |
| 21st of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Patti LuPone, American singer and actress |
| 21st of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Danza, American actor and comedian |
| 21st of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician |
| 21st of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Varsha, American motor sports TV commentator |
| 21st of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Vickers, Canadian hockey player |
| 21st of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | James Morrison, American actor |
| 21st of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer |
| 21st of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Longman, American demographer |
| 21st of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler |
| 21st of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Andie MacDowell, American actress |
| 21st of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist |
| 21st of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist |
| 21st of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits) |
| 21st of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure) |
| 21st of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps) |
| 21st of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies) |
| 21st of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Les Lancaster, American baseball player |
| 21st of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 21st of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor |
| 21st of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Cameron Mitchell, American film director |
| 21st of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete |
| 21st of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Baumann, Canadian swimmer |
| 21st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Foster, American model (Playboy) |
| 21st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic |
| 21st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Grant, American basketball player |
| 21st of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Franti, American musician |
| 21st of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Stephens, British actor |
| 21st of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Meade, American news anchor |
| 21st of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor |
| 21st of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Sullivan, American actress |
| 21st of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Riggle, American comedian |
| 21st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Kravchenko, Russian poker player |
| 21st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Turner, American comic book artist (d. 2008) |
| 21st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Mabius, American actor |
| 21st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer |
| 21st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Severina Vuckovic, Croatian singer |
| 21st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete |
| 21st of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tha Trademarc, American hip hop artist |
| 21st of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player |
| 21st of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Doseone, American rapper |
| 21st of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Sale, Canadian figure skater |
| 21st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Burns, Australian footballer |
| 21st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish) |
| 21st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid, The Used) |
| 21st of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer |
| 21st of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | James McAvoy, Scottish actor |
| 21st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player |
| 21st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Romo, American football player |
| 21st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player |
| 21st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Rosete, Spanish film director and publicist |
| 21st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Larimore, American model |
| 21st of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Carnell Williams, American football player |
| 21st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tarvaris Jackson, American football player |
| 21st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pawe? Brozek, Polish footballer |
| 21st of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shayna Fox, American voice actress |
| 21st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Audra Cohen, American tennis player |
| 21st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player |
| 21st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player |
| 21st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mirko Valdifiori, Italian footballer |
| 21st of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Devendorf, American basketball player |
| 21st of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 21st of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Amell, Canadian actor |
| 21st of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Mosquera Parada, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of April 2007 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Isabella of Denmark |
| 21st of April 0866 | DEATH | Bardas, Byzantine noble and minister (Born unknown) |
| 21st of April 1073 | DEATH | Pope Alexander II |
| 21st of April 1109 | DEATH | Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1033) |
| 21st of April 1142 | DEATH | Pierre Abelard, French writer (Born 1079) |
| 21st of April 1329 | DEATH | Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1282) |
| 21st of April 1509 | DEATH | King Henry VII of England (Born 1457) |
| 21st of April 1551 | DEATH | Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (Born 1510) |
| 21st of April 1557 | DEATH | Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (Born 1495) |
| 21st of April 1574 | DEATH | Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1519) |
| 21st of April 1699 | DEATH | Jean Racine, French dramatist (Born 1639) |
| 21st of April 1701 | DEATH | Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (Born 1667) |
| 21st of April 1719 | DEATH | Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (Born 1640) |
| 21st of April 1720 | DEATH | Antoine Hamilton, French writer (Born 1646) |
| 21st of April 1722 | DEATH | Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (Born 1673) |
| 21st of April 1792 | DEATH | Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (Born 1746) |
| 21st of April 1815 | DEATH | Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (Born 1746) |
| 21st of April 1825 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (Born 1765) |
| 21st of April 1852 | DEATH | Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (Born 1787) |
| 21st of April 1863 | DEATH | Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (Born 1782) |
| 21st of April 1868 | DEATH | Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh |
| 21st of April 1910 | DEATH | Mark Twain, American author and humorist (Born 1835) |
| 21st of April 1918 | DEATH | Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (Born 1892) |
| 21st of April 1922 | DEATH | Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (Born 1858) |
| 21st of April 1924 | DEATH | Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (Born 1858) |
| 21st of April 1930 | DEATH | Robert Bridges, English poet (Born 1844) |
| 21st of April 1938 | DEATH | Allama Iqbal, Urdu philosopher and poet (Born 1877) |
| 21st of April 1945 | DEATH | Walter Model, German field marshal (Born 1891) |
| 21st of April 1946 | DEATH | John Maynard Keynes, English economist (Born 1883) |
| 21st of April 1948 | DEATH | Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (Born 1887) |
| 21st of April 1956 | DEATH | Charles MacArthur, American writer (Born 1895) |
| 21st of April 1965 | DEATH | Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892) |
| 21st of April 1971 | DEATH | Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (Born 1907) |
| 21st of April 1973 | DEATH | Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1894) |
| 21st of April 1974 | DEATH | Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (Born 1895) |
| 21st of April 1977 | DEATH | Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (Born 1892) |
| 21st of April 1977 | DEATH | Issy Bonn, British actor and musician (Born 1893) |
| 21st of April 1978 | DEATH | Sandy Denny, British vocalist (Born 1947) |
| 21st of April 1978 | DEATH | Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (Born 1877) |
| 21st of April 1980 | DEATH | Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (Born 1928) |
| 21st of April 1980 | DEATH | Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (Born 1894) |
| 21st of April 1983 | DEATH | Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (Born 1902) |
| 21st of April 1984 | DEATH | Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (Born 1943) |
| 21st of April 1985 | DEATH | Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (Born 1922) |
| 21st of April 1985 | DEATH | Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (Born 1902) |
| 21st of April 1985 | DEATH | Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (Born 1910) |
| 21st of April 1986 | DEATH | Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (Born 1930) |
| 21st of April 1989 | DEATH | Princess Dukhye of Korea (Born 1912) |
| 21st of April 1990 | DEATH | Erte, French artist (Born 1892) |
| 21st of April 1991 | DEATH | Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (Born 1909) |
| 21st of April 1996 | DEATH | Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (Born 1944) |
| 21st of April 1996 | DEATH | Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (Born 1919) |
| 21st of April 1998 | DEATH | Jean-Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (Born 1924) |
| 21st of April 1999 | DEATH | Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (Born 1904) |
| 21st of April 2000 | DEATH | Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (Born 1929) |
| 21st of April 2003 | DEATH | Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (Born 1933) |
| 21st of April 2004 | DEATH | Mary McGrory, American journalist (Born 1918) |
| 21st of April 2005 | DEATH | Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (Born 1941) |
| 21st of April 2006 | DEATH | T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (Born 1922) |
| 21st of April 2006 | DEATH | Tele Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (Born 1931) |
| 21st of April 2007 | DEATH | Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (Born 1941) |
| 21st of April 2008 | DEATH | Al Wilson, American singer (Born 1939) |
| 21st of April 2010 | DEATH | Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Born 1947) |
| 21st of April 2010 | DEATH | Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (Born 1920) |
| 21st of April 2011 | DEATH | Elisabeth Sladen, English Actor (Born 1958) |