Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - April 21, 2024

1934 Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game

1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg

1961 Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO

1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing

1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London

1984 Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS

1878 NY installs 1st firehouse pole

1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy

1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed

1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season

1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6

1898 Spanish-American War begins

1990 "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks

1984 Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game

1994 "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances

1955 J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind," premieres in NYC

1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople

1990 Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history

1863 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah 'Ў Feast of Ridv n (Jalѓl 13, 20)

1975 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55

1974 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice

1997 26th Boston Women's Marathon won by Fatuma Roba of Ethopia in 2:26:23

1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship

1982 Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant

1509 Henry the VIII becomes King of England

1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)

1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark

1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1

1967 EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands

1477 Maximilian of Habsburg marries Maria of Bourgondi‰ at proxy

1974 28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win

1987 Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games

1985 Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06

1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed

1925 No‰l Coward's "Fallen Angels," premieres in London

1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties

1970 Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records

1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British

1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper

1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier

1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)

1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany

1944 NFL Chic Cardinals & Pitts Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)

1986 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55

1521 Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards

1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park

1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR

1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR

1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US

1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards

1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M‚xico

1987 Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history

1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC

1991 Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)

1982 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress

1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica

1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)

1996 Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8)

1989 George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers

1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die

1921 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4]

1955 Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season

1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh

1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory

1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow

1951 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1

1898 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat

1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to « hour

1925 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral

1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]

1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph

1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle

1977 C Strouse & M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in NYC

1739 Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord

1654 England & Sweden sign trade agreement

1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man," premieres in London

1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum

0953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights

1960 Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil

1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched

1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer

1985 Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead

1991 Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)

1988 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence

1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili

1855 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia

1963 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open

1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington

1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)

1980 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11

1982 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game

1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio

1572 France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant

1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49

1983 њ1 coin introduced in United Kingdom

1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam

1991 Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th

1994 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)

1948 2nd NBA Championship: Balt Bullets beat Phila Warriors, 4 games to 2

1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit

1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground

1964 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5

1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary

1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months

1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill

1977 "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances

1910 Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0

1862 Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston

1991 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus

1526 Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi

1980 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit Mich

1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels

1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)

1986 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51

1980 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Can in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course

1945 Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin

1818 Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna

1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322

1996 Wayne James scores 99 & 99 & ct 11 stp 2 in Logan Cup Final

1945 Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London

1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria

1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges

1967 Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)

1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time

1995 FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Okla City bombing

1967 Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to US

1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod

1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany

1996 Matabeleland beat Mashonaland Country Dist to win Logan Cup

1988 Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"

1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway

1996 "Delicate Balance," opens at Plymouth Theater NYC

1975 Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)

1975 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24

1961 French army revolts in Algeria

1979 "Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances

1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland

1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m

1996 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship

1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die

1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing

1997 101st Boston Marathon won by Lameck Aguta of Kenya in 2:10:34

1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co

1968 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win

1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 perfs

1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England

1977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances

1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo

1996 57th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin

1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"

1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)

1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season

1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1995 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, NY Knicks win 98-92

1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1987 Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)

1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike

1951 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3

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