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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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• 753 BC - Romulus founds Rome ( traditional).
• 43 BC - Mark Antony is defeated in battle by consul Hirtius in the Battle of Mutina , who is killed.
• 1792 - Tiradentes, revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged.
• 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto - Republic of Texas forces under Sam HoustonSamuel Houston ( March 2, 1793 July 26, 1863) was a key figure in the history of Texas. He was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Receiving only a basic education he emigrated with his family to Maryville, Tennessee in 1807, following the death of his f defeat troops under MexicanThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co General Antonio López de Santa AnnaAntonio Lopez de Santa Anna Perez de Lebron (sometimes spelled de Santa Ana ( February 21, 1794 21 June 1876) was a Mexican general and dictator. Antonio Lopez was born to lower-middle class parents in Xalapa, while Mexico was still known as the colony of. (Santa Anna and hundreds of his troops are taken prisoner along the San Jacinto River the next day.)
• 1863Events January-March January 1 Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War. January 1 The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska January 8 Ground is broken in Sacramen - Bahá'u'lláh is proclaimed as the head of the Bahá'í FaithThe Bah Faith is a monotheistic religion, whose members follow the teachings of Baha'u'llah, their prophet founder. Baha'u'llah taught that there is one God who progressively reveals his will to humanity. Each of the great religions brought by the Messeng.
• 1863 - American Civil WarThe American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as "the U. the Union," " the North," or "the Yankees"; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as "the Confederat: Steight's Raid begins - Troops led by UnionThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in Colonel Abel Streight move into northern Alabama and Georgia to cut the Western and Atlantic Railroad between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia (the raid failed).
• 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 RMS Titanic.
• 1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied fire over Vauz sur Somme in France.
• 1944 - Women in France receive the right to vote
• 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
• 1952 - Administrative Professionals' Day (formerly Secretaries Day ), first celebrated
• 1953 - Roy Cohn and G. 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".
• 1955 - Bob Hope's radio program airs its last segment.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley's song " Heartbreak Hotel" becomes the "King's" first song to reach the top of the Billboard magazine music charts.
• 1960 - Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated.
• 1960 - Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i faith in Washington, DC
• 1966 - Rastafarianism: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica. ( Grounation Day )
• 1967 - A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état establishing a military regime that is going to last for seven years.
• 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.
• 1985 - Ayrton Senna wins the first of 41 Formula One championships at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.
• 1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• 1992 - Death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.
• 1994 - The first discovery of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.