1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, dies of a heart attack at 62
1967 – Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1974 – Charles “Chic” Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1990 – Erté, French artist
1994 – Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 – Stafford Heginbotham, British toymaker (Tebro Toys) and Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1996 – Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
2007 – Parry O’Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, silver 1960), dies at 75
2013 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, dies at 107
2020 – Teruyuki Okazaki, Japanese karate master (10th degree black belt Shotokan Karate; founder International Shotokan Karate Federation), dies from COVID-19 at 88
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Historical Events for 21st April 2021
1453 – Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1916 – Ulster Protestant and Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement lands at Tralee Bay, Ireland from a German submarine; discovered at McKenna’s Fort and arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Moskva Golid” premieres in Moscow
1945 – He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1948 – Basketball Association of America Finals: Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 88-73 to take series, 4 games to 2
1964 – Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1987 – Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
1996 – “Delicate Balance” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
2008 – 112th Boston Marathon: 3rd straight men’s title for Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya in 2:07:45; Dire Tune of Ethiopia women’s winner in 2:25:25
2020 – US President Donald Trump announces new 60-day ban on most green cards for the US
Today in History for 21st April 2021
Historical Events
1862 – Ellen Price Wood’s “East Lynne” premieres in Boston
1924 – 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar for the third consecutive year in 2:29:40.2; 4th race victory
1952 – BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 – Georgi Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1970 – The Principality of Hutt River (previously Hutt River Province) secedes from Australia – it remains unrecognised by Australia or other nations
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Famous Birthdays
1838 – John Muir, Scottish naturalist and discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras), born in Dunbar (d. 1914)
1917 – Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82)
1935 – Charles Grodin, Pitt, actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1970 – Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (Falling Slowly), born in Ballymum
1972 – Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
Famous Deaths
1652 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian composer, dies at 66
1971 – Edmund Lowe, American actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper), dies at 81
1986 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist, dies at 55
1987 – Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1993 – Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
2007 – Parry O’Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, silver 1960), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 20th April 2021
1314 – Clement V [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avignon, dies
1765 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon, dies at 67
1873 – William Tite, English architect (The Royal Exchange), dies at 75
1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 56
1918 – Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player, dies at 64
1971 – Cecil Parker, British actor (The Lady Vanishes, Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1979 – Peter Donald, British-born American actor and radio host dubbed “one of radio’s great dialecticians” (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
2006 – Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
Historical Events for 20th April 2021
1908 – Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1914 – 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1948 – Walter P. Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit
1968 – South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1977 – Supreme Court rules “Live Free or Die” may be covered on NH licenses
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1994 – Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
2013 – Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy
2013 – 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado
2013 – 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
Today in History for 20th April 2021
Historical Events
1898 – US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1944 – Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1967 – A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126.
1990 – 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A’s is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1992 – 100th episode of American sitcom “Murphy Brown” airs
1997 – “Present Laughter” closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1908 – Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphone player and actor, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
1920 – Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2007)
1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor, born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset
1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1982)
1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor (Gollum in Lord of the Rings), born in London, England
1964 – John Carney, American football placekicker (San Diego Chargers), born in Hartford, Connecticut
Famous Deaths
1314 – Clement V [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avignon, dies
1765 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1935 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer, dies at 71
1995 – Tessie O’Shea, Welsh stage and screen entertainer, dies at 81
2003 – Bernard Katz, German-born Australian biophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970), dies at 82
2008 – VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
Famous Deaths for 19th April 2021
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1986 – Dag Wirén, Swedish composer, dies at 80
1992 – Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1996 – Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (undefeated world champion WBA super featherweight 2006-08; WBC lightweight 2009-10), commits suicide at 28
2013 – Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (M*A*S*H, Greaser’s Palace, Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of congestive heart failure at 95
2015 – Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, dies at 91
2019 – Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor, dies at 91
Historical Events for 19th April 2021
1901 – In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence.
1911 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Fanny’s First Play” premieres in London
1919 – Opera “Monsieur Beaucaire” is produced (London)
1940 – “Lake Shore Ltd” derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
1945 – US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1973 – Barbra Streisand records “Between Yesterday and Tomorrow”
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, with green and gold the national colors
1993 – Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1994 – “Illmatic” debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
2018 – Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba’s new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down
Today in History for 19th April 2021
Historical Events
1874 – Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1916 – Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano
1928 – Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1992 – “4 Baboons Adoring the Sun” closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances
1994 – “Illmatic” debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
2021 – New Zealand and Australia open a travel bubble between the two countries after more than a year of border closures
Famous Birthdays
1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1952)
1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian scientist and mathematician (probability theory), born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1953)
1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France (d. 1983)
1920 – Frank Fontaine, American comedian (Crazy Guggenheim), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian rules footballer
1970 – Luis Miguel, Puerto Rican-Mexican spanish singer (Me Gustas Tal Como Eres), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Famous Deaths
1560 – Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1889 – Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
1994 – Larry Davis, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 57
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Soviet ice hockey defenceman (2x Olympic gold, dies at 62
2015 – Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 18th April 2021
1530 – Francois Lambert d’avignon, French church reformer, dies at ~43
1800 – Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
1888 – Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58
1925 – Charles Ebbets, American sports executive (co-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers 1897-1902), dies at 65
1928 – Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 58
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
1940 – Florrie Forde [Flannagan], Australian singer and British music hall performer, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1949 – Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
1964 – Ben Hecht, American playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist, dies at 48