April 21 - Wikipedia

April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). There are 254 days remaining.

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1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional)
1836 - Battle of San Jacinto: Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat and capture Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
1863 - Bahá'u'lláh is proclaimed as the head of the Baha'i Faith
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States Congress, on April 25, recognized that a state of war had existed between the United States and Spain as of this date
1912 - The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the Titanic.
1953 - Roy Cohn[?] and David Schine[?], two of Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief aides, recommend the removal of 30,000 books from the libraries of the United States Information Service[?] posts in Europe, including works by Dashiell Hammett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck and Henry David Thoreau, calling them "pro-Communist"
1970 - Hutt River Province secedes from the Commonwealth of Australia
1975 - 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
1994 - The first discovery of extrasolar[?] planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan[?].

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