April 21

Holidays

• Rome - city birthday.
• Saint Wolbodo
• Saint Konrad von Parzham
• Saint Anastasius I
• Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Texas-San Jacinto Day
• Grounation Day in Rastafari movement.
• Sunni Islam - Mawlid, Prophet Muhammad's birthday (2005).
• Roman Empire - the Parilia was held in honor of Pales.
• Bah�'f Faith - First day of the festival of Ridv�n.
• Tiradentes - Brazil.
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Events

• 2019 A series of explosions at churches and hotels in four cities in Sri Lanka, including the nation's commercial capital and largest city Colombo, kills at least 359 people and wounds around 500 others. ISIL has since claimed responsibility for the attacks. (BBC)
• 2018 2018 Gaza border protests: Ambassador to the United Nations for Palestine Riyad Mansour says diplomats will ask the UN to probe the violence. (The Washington Post)
• 2017 War in Afghanistan: 2017 Camp Shaheen attack: Taliban insurgents attack an Afghan military base in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province, killing more than 140 soldiers. It is said to be the deadliest attack of its kind (BBC) , (AP) (Reuters)
• 2016 Sudanese nomadic conflicts, Ethnic violence in South Sudan: The Ethiopian Army crosses the border into South Sudan with the latter's approval in search of more than 100 children who were kidnapped and spirited across the border in a surprise attack by unknown assailants that also killed 208 people a few days ago. (Al Jazeera)
• 2015 Somali Civil War (2009–present): A deadly explosion in a Mogadishu restaurant kills at least four people and injures ten others. (Al-Jazeera)
• 2014 South Sudan conflict: The UN condemns the "Targeted Killings" and wounding of hundreds of civilians based on their ethnic origins in the town of Bentiu after South Sudanese rebels seized the oil hub last week. (Al Jazeera)
• 2013 Syrian civil war:: Locals and activists in Damascus report that the Syrian Army killed over 500 people in the suburb of Jdeit al-Fadel. (CNN)
• 2012 Arab Spring:
• 2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
• 2010 52 civilians are killed and 55 others are wounded in renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur state. (Kazinform) (China Dialy) (China.org)
• 2009 Yahoo! will cut between 600 and 700 jobs. (AP via ''Forbes'')
• 2008 Bank of America, the largest American retail bank, reports a 77 percent decline in the quarter ending March 31, the third straight quarterly loss. The loss included over US$5 billion in write-downs and credit-related costs.
• 2007 At least 10 people are missing in Chile following a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. (Reuters via News Limited)
• 2006 April 2006 Nepalese general strike: King Gyanendra of Nepal asks for Prime Minister nominations to be made to assist in ending unrest in the country. (BBC)
• 2005 400 Iranian volunteers sign up to sacrifice their lives in "occupied Islamic countries", particularly Israel, after being inspired by a fatwa from a top hardline cleric giving religious backing to suicide missions. (Reuters)
• 2004 Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
• 2003 Boston Marathon: Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot wins in 2:10:11, Svetlana Zakharova in 2:25:20 (legally blind American Marla Runyan finishes fifth), Ernst Van Dyk and Christina Ripp win the wheelchair races in 1:28:32 and 1:54:57 respectively.
• 2002 Chirac (19.88%), Le Pen (16.86%), Jospin (16.18%), Bayrou (6.5%), Lauguiller (5.72%), Mamere (5.25%), Chevenement (5.32%), Besancenot (4.5%), Saint-Josse (4.0%), Hue(3.6%). Turnout 75%.
• 2001 12th Annual Thunder Over Louisville is held in Louisville, Kentucky.
• 1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
• 1996 Delicate Balance, opens at Plymouth Theater, New York City
• 1995 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, New York Knicks win 98-92.
• 1994 Picnic opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 1993 Wilder, Wilder, Wilder opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 30 performances
• 1992 High Rollers opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
• 1991 Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pittsburgh Pirates score 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Chicago Cubs lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th.
• 1990 Cartoon All Stars to Rescue shown on all 4 TV networks
• 1989 George W Bush and Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
• 1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose, ending American League season-opening winning streak at 13 games.
• 1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona).
• 1985 Flyers 5-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 2-0 lead
• 1984 After 37 weeks, Thriller is knocked off as top album by Footloose
• 1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]
• 1982 Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
• 1981 US furnishes US$1 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia.
• 1980 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit, Michigan
• 1979 Carmelina closes at St. James Theater NYC after 17 performances
• 1977 Annie opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
• 1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing.
• 1975 Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
• 1974 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win.
• 1972 John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
• 1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland.
• 1970 Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team and 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records
• 1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49.
• 1968 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz and Guilderstern and Hallelujah Baby! win.
• 1967 EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in the Netherlands
• 1966 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• 1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• 1964 Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
• 1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
• 1962 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
• 1961 French army revolts in Algeria
• 1960 Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith in Washington, D.C.
• 1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
• 1958 United Airlines Flight 736 is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force F-100F-5-NA Super Sabre jet fighter near Las Vegas, Nevada. All 49 persons in both aircraft are killed.
• 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
• 1956 Former U.S. First Daughter Margaret Truman marries Clifton Daniel.
• 1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die.
• 1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes Premier of the USSR
• 1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
• 1951 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
• 1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
• 1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
• 1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
• 1944 NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on December 3).
• 1943 Worst Bombing of Aberdeen in WW2.
• 1942 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.
• 1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
• 1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer.
• 1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties.
• 1934 Moe Berg, Washington Senators' catcher, plays American League record 117th consecutive errorless game.
• 1933 Nazi Germany outlaws the kosher ritual shechita.
• 1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
• 1927 A banking crisis hits Japan.
• 1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR.
• 1922 The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
• 1919 The US Victory Liberty Loan offers $4.5 billion in bonds.
• 1918 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.
• 1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz MTxico, stay six months.
• 1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper.
• 1910 Cleveland Naps play first game at League Park, lose to Detroit Tigers 5-0.
• 1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League).
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Famous Birthday

• Elizabeth II

  Royalty.

• James McAvoy

  Scottish actor, best known for his roles...

• Iggy Pop

  American musician, a punk rocker.

• Nicolas Bedos
• Tony Danza

  TV Actor.

• Toby Stephens

  English actor.

• Roy Dupuis

  Canadian actor.

• Rollo May

  American psychoanalyst and lecturer who...

• Charles Grodin

  American actor and talk show host.

• Robbie Amell

  Canadian actor.

• Alana Ladd

  American noted family and one of four...

• Claire Denis

  Paris, France -- Actress (Boom Boom,...

• John Cameron Mitchell
• John Mortimer

  British barrister, screenwriter and...

• Glen Hansard

  Irish singer-songwriter guitarist and...

• Gugu Mbatha-Raw
• Brian White

  American actor, producer, model, dancer,...

• Alphonso McAuley

  TV Actor.

• Rob Riggle

  American comedian.

• Christian Coma

  Drummer.

• Patti LuPone

  American actress and singer.

• James Dobson

  American evangelist psychologist and...

• Paul Schneider

  Germany Scientist.

• Efrem Zimbalist

  Russian-American violinist composer and...

• Andie MacDowell

  American actress.

• Hadley Fraser

  Stage Actor.

• Robert Smith (musician)
• Andie Macdowell
• David Servan-Schreiber

  French physician, neuroscientist and...

• Anthony Quinn

  Mexican-American actor and producer (d....

• Severina Vučković

  Croatian pop-folk singer.

• Philippe Séguin

  French political figure who was...

• Gwendal Peizerat

  French former competitive ice dancer.

• Brasilia (Brazil)
• Robin Meade

  American model singer and journalist.

• Jencarlos Canela

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Kitty Raymond

  American astrologer and writer, the...

• Jukka Nevalainen

  Finnish drummer.

• Jamie Salé

  Canadian figure skater, who, with...

• Jason Simpson

  American noted family, son of O.J.

• Claire Legendre
• Patti Lupone
• Jean Hélion

  French painter whose abstract work of...

• André Bettencourt

  French politician, Secretary of State.

• Brian J White
• Valérie André

  French neurosurgeon, aviator and the...

• Nadeshda Brennicke
• Danyon Loader

  New Zealand pro swimmer who placed with...

• Carys Douglas

  American noted family, the second child...

• Elaine May

  American actress director and...

• Lisa-Mari Moen Jünge
• Gary Grant (basketball)
• Raphaëlle Tervel
• Akram Ojjeh
• Alistair MacLean

  Scottish noted writer of...

• Hans Fritzsche

  German Head of Radio Broadcast of the...

• Mikhail Fridman
• Pascal Auberson
• Hilda Hilst

  Brazilian writer who often described...

• Feike Asma

  Dutch musician, an organist who was...

• Patrick Rambaud

  French writer.

• Gabriel Loire

  French artist, a stained glass artist...

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Rocky Santiago

  American minor actor in small roles; his...

• Anselmo Duarte
• Nelo Risi

  Italian film director and noted family,...

• Thomas Helmer

  German footballer.

• Mario Covas
• Mike Barson

  Scottish founding member, songwriter and...

• Berthe Meijer

  Dutch professional chef and author of 17...

• Ian Carr

  Scottish musician, a rock and jazz...

• Alfredo Uchoa
• Jerry Only

  American musician (The Misfits).

• Marcel Camus

  French film director.

• Alain Bentolila
• Judith Blegen
• Gary Condit

  American politician, CA rep, elected as...

• Johnny McElhone

  Scottish rock musician with the band...

• Sieglinde Wagner
• Gabriel de Broglie
• Pat Brown

  American politician, a lawyer from 1927.

• Alicia Aylies
• Richard Demont

  San Francisco sports Champions.

• James Morrison (actor)
• Michel Rougerie
• Mark Olberding
• Peter Kowald
• Michael Franti

  American musician, a vocalist and...

• Brianne Davis

  American model actress and producer.

• Rebecca Zlotowski
• Iain Mills

  Scottish politician and Member of...

• Isabella Acres
• Simonetta Greggio
• Nicole Sullivan

  American actress and screenwriter.

• Pedro Winter
• Ludmila Engquist

  Russian-born Swedish athlete.

• Sam Vaknin
• Beatriz Recari
• Eve Arnold

  Photojournalist (d. 2012).

• Ken Caminiti

  American baseball player (d. 2004).

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Famous Deaths

• Nina Simone

  American jazz singer, although may be...

• Ursula Jeans

  Simla, India -- Actress (I Lived With...

• Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

  American actor and musician (Born 1904).

• James Melton

  American operatic tenor (The Ziegfield...

• Robert Hersant

  French entrepreneur, the founder of a...

• Tancredo Neves

  Brazilian politician, lawyer, public...

• Juan Antonio Samaranch

  Spanish chairman of the International...

• Elisabeth Sladen

  English Actor (Born 1958).

• Elisabeth Sladen

  English Actor (Born 1958).

• Norman Demuth

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Francois "Doc" Duvalier

  Dictator of Haiti, dies at 64.

• Jack Allan Westrup

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Vladimir K Romanov

  Grand Duke / Rus pretender to the...

• Stafford Heginbotham

  toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at...

• Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder

  oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at...

• Rodney Meredith Thomas

  architect/painter, dies at age 93.

• Andres Rodriguez

  Paraguayan President (1989-93), dies.

• Francois ''Papa Doc'' Duvalier

  Haitian dictator (Born 1907).

• Charles ''Chic'' Harley

  American football player (Born 1895).

• Hristo Prodanov

  Bulgarian mountaineer (Born 1943).

• Erte

  French artist (Born 1892).

• Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman

  Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79.

• Jimmy ''The Greek'' Snyder

  American bookie and sports broadcaster...

• TK Ramakrishnan

  Indian politician (Born 1922).

• Tele Santana

  Brazilian football manager and former...

• Lobby Loyde

  Australian guitarist and songwriter...

• Jean-Francois Lyotard

  French philosopher and sociologist (Born...

• Zora Arkus-Duntov

  Belgian-born American engineer.

• Aldo Leopold

  American author, scientist, ecologist,...

• Gustav Lorentzen

  Norwegian thermodynamic scientist and...

• Manfred von Richthofen

  German captain and pilot (d. 1918).

• Charles MacArthur

  American playwright and screenwriter (d....

• Gerry Marshall

  English race car driver (d. 2005).

• Foster Hewitt

  Canadian radio pioneer (Born 1902).

• Salah Jaheen

  Egyptian poet and cartoonist (Born...

• Robert S Bridges

  Poet laureate (Testament of beauty),...

• Herman Finck

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Carlos Lopez Buchardo

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Thomas Wyatt Turner

  American civil rights advocate and...

• Aleksandr Oparin

  Russian biochemist (Born 1894).

• Tancredo de Almeida Neves

  Brazil banker and elected president...

• Heinrich Vogl composer

  dies at age 55.

• Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer

  Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding...

• "Red Baron"

  [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI...

• John M Keynes

  English economist (How to pay for the...

• [Richard] Stafford Cripps

  English minister of plane-manufacturing,...

• Frederick Handley Page

  designer of first big airplane (40...

• Edward V Appleton

  English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947),...

• Toby Halicki

  car-crash film producer, killed shooting...

• Gummo [Milton] Marx

  US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at age...

• Edith S Green

  American politician...

• Johnny Beagley

  winner of two 1942 World Series games,...

• Willi Boskovsky

  Austrian conductor (new years concert),...

• Dzhojar Dudaev

  President of Republic of Chechenia...

• Clement Merk

  animal trainer, dies at age 93.

• Robert Bridges

  Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to...

• Eleanora Duse

  Italian actress who ruled the stage by...

• Muhammad Iqbal

  Indian Muslim philosopher, poet and...

• Alessandro Moreschi

  Italian castrato singer of the late 19th...

• Mary McGrory

  American Pulitzer-Prize winning...

• Eleonora Duse

  Italian actress (Born 1858).

• Dzhokhar Dudayev

  Russian-Chechen general and politician...

• Issy Bonn

  British actor and musician (Born 1893).

• Diosdado Macapagal

  Filipino lawyer and politician 9th...

• Gummo Marx

  American actor and comedian (Born 1892).

• Neal Matthews

  Jr.

• Edmund Lowe

  Actor (Front Page Detective), dies at...

• Leslie Banks

  Actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness),...

• Hal Schumacher

  baseball pitcher, dies at age 82.

• Allama Iqbal

  Urdu philosopher and poet (Born 1877).

• Walter Model

  German field marshal (Born 1891).

• John Maynard Keynes

  English economist (Born 1883).

• Edward Victor Appleton

  English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate...

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
• 2012 Fun. - We Are Young
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 Rihanna - Rude Boy
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
• 2007 Timbaland - Give It To Me
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 TLC - No Scrubs
• 1998 K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life
• 1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
• 1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
• 1991 Wilson Phillips - You're In Love
• 1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
• 1988 Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
• 1987 Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
• 1986 Prince - Kiss
• 1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
• 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
• 1983 Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
• 1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
• 1981 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Kiss On My List
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
• 1976 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
• 1975 Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
• 1974 MFSB - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)
• 1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Beatles - Let It Be
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
• 1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
• 1966 The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration
• 1965 Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 The Chiffons - He's So Fine
• 1962 Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
• 1961 The Marcels - Blue Moon
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
• 1958 The Champs - Tequila
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
• 1957 Perry Como - Round And Round
• 1955 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines