1509 – Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52, Henry VIII succeeds him aged 17
1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (Phèdre, Athalie), dies of liver cancer at 59
1946 – Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for South Africa in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, dies of a heart attack at 62
1990 – Erté, French artist
1997 – Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1999 – Charles “Buddy” Rogers, American film actor (Wings), singer, and dance bandleader, dies at 94
2003 – Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], American jazz pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and civil rights activist (“Mississippi Goddam”; “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black”, “Feeling Good”; “Wild Is The Wind”), dies of breast cancer at 70
2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist and columnist, dies at 85
2013 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, dies at 107
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Historical Events for 21st April 2022
1902 – 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor in 2:43:12
1910 – Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Moskva Golid” premieres in Moscow
1935 – King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel”, becomes #1
1958 – 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalić of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1984 – After 37 weeks Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” is knocked off as top album by movie soundtrack for “Footloose”
1990 – Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1993 – Brazil votes against a monarchy
2021 – Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a “red line” in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border
Today in History for 21st April 2022
Historical Events
1878 – NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1925 – No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets’ funeral
1945 – US 7th Army reaches Nuremberg
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
1974 – 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win
2017 – Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
Famous Birthdays
1822 – Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, born in Taughannock, New York (d. 1900)
1853 – Charles Malherbe, French violinist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1911)
1881 – Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter and caricaturist (Rocks of Oran), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1953)
1924 – Daniel Melnick, American producer, Get Smart), born in NYC, New York
1951 – Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
1958 – Andie MacDowell [Rosalie Anderson], American actress (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Green Card), born in Gaffney, South Carolina
Famous Deaths
1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, dies of a heart attack at 62
1973 – Merian C. Cooper, American film director and producer (King Kong) and aviator (Kościuszko Squadron, Director-Pan American Airways), dies of cancer at 79
1985 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio broadcaster (Hockey Night in Canada), dies at 82
2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires), dies at 70
2007 – William “Parry” O’Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, and silver 1960), dies of a heart attack during a swimming competition at 75
2013 – Shakuntala Devi, Indian writer and mental calculator known as the “Human Computer”, stops calculating at 83 due to complications from severe respiratory problems
Famous Deaths for 20th April 2022
1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1935 – Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
1982 – Andy Sandham, English cricket batsman (14 Tests; 1st triple centurion 325 v WI 1930), dies at 91
1982 – Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris and Roses), dies at 82
1995 – Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2015 – Sir Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony’s College Oxford), dies at 96
2016 – Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), dies at 93
2018 – Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer (“Levels”; “Wake Me Up”; “Sunshine”), commits suicide at 28
Historical Events for 20th April 2022
1657 – Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1910 – Halley’s Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1934 – Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1972 – Virgil Thomson’s final opera, “Lord Byron”, with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City
1981 – Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1986 – Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1992 – Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1994 – Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1996 – 1996 NFL Draft: Keyshawn Johnson from USC first pick by New York Jets
Today in History for 20th April 2022
Historical Events
1958 – Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Montreal Canadiens’ 3-peat; beat Boston Bruins, 5-3 for a 4-2 for series win
1965 – People’s Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1981 – 85th Boston Marathon: Toshihiko Seko of Japan wins men’s race in 2:09:26; Allison Roe of New Zealand takes women’s title in 2:26:46
1986 – Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925
1988 – Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
Famous Birthdays
702 – Jafar al-Sadiq, Muslim scholar and scientist, born in Medina, Umayyad Empire (d. 765)
1650 – William Bedloe, English fraudster and Popish Plot informer, born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire (d. 1680)
1884 – Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England (d. 1966)
1908 – Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphone player, pianist, drummer, and actor, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor (Malcolm-Young and Restless), born in Oakland, California
1984 – Tyson Griffin, American professional mixed martial artist, born in Sacramento, California
Famous Deaths
1769 – Pontiac, Ottawa Indian leader, murdered by a Peoria warrior at 48 or 49
1906 – Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 (London, England)
1977 – Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 and 3-8), dies
1991 – Steve Marriott, British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (Small Faces, 1965-68, 75-78); Humble Pie, 1969-75, 79-83 – Eat It), dies in a house fire at 44
1992 – Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 69
2018 – Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer (“Levels”; “Wake Me Up”; “Sunshine”), commits suicide at 28
Famous Deaths for 19th April 2022
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1906 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player (1st Wimbledon singles champion 1877), dies at 56
1945 – J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1956 – Lionel K P “Buster” Crabb, British diver (WWII), dies at 47
1972 – Billy Burke, American golfer (US Open 1931), dies at 69
1981 – Ernst Levy, Swiss composer, dies at 85
1995 – J. Peter Grace, American businessman and industrialist,, dies from cancer at 81
1998 – Liam Sullivan, American singer and actor (Star Trek; The Magic Sword; Monroes), dies of a heart attack at 74
2003 – Conrad Leonard, British composer and pianist, dies at 104
2010 – Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
Historical Events for 19th April 2022
1770 – Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1775 – American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The “Shot Heard Round the World” takes place later that day in Concord
1836 – Nikolai Gogol’s “Revisor” premieres in St Petersburg
1861 – Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1877 – Opera “Les Cloches de Cornerville” is produced (Paris)
1968 – Belgian construction workers strike
1969 – Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1970 – “Look to the Lilies” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1985 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 – Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Today in History for 19th April 2022
Historical Events
1900 – Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1919 – Leslie Irvin of US makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump
1936 – First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine, anti-Jewish riots break out
1963 – Johnny Cash releases single “Ring Of Fire” written by his future wife June Carter and Merle Kilgore
1971 – USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1971 – After smashing 124 in the 1st innings, Indian cricket opener Sunil Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd innings in the drawn 5th Test against the West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad
Famous Birthdays
1830 – Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, born in Breyell, Germany (d. 1908)
1873 – Sydney Barnes, English cricket fast bowler (27 Tests, 189 wickets, BB 9/103); Warwickshire CCC, Lancashire CCC, Staffordshire CCC), born in Smethwick, England (d. 1967)
1942 – David Fanshawe, British composer and ethno-musicologist (African Sanctus,; Pacific Odessey), born in Paignton, England (d. 2010)
1949 – Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish businesswoman and jewelry designer (Tiffany and Co.), born in Vallauris, France
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree), born in Los Angeles, California
1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino Chinese actress (Sana Maulit Muli), born in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines
Famous Deaths
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies
1791 – Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi’s World), dies
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician, dies at 65
1980 – Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
1996 – Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
Famous Deaths for 18th April 2022
1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer, dies at 63
1674 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of science of demography, dies at 53
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
1951 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal, dies at 81
1974 – John Henry Lewis, American boxer (World Light-Heavyweight champion, 1935-38), dies of emphysema and Parkinson’s at 59
1983 – Alan Melville, South African cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies at 72
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist, dies at 48
1991 – Barry Rogers, American jazz, salsa, and session trombonist (Eddie Palmiere; Fania All-Stars; Chaka Khan; Todd Rundgren), dies at 55
2004 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji, dies at 83
2019 – Mark Medoff, American playwright, director, actor and professor (Children of a Lesser God), dies at 79