What are the important events that happened on April 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 21 is the 111th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 254 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 8, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,086,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecahenagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 302 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,504 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 21 Historical Events
- 1922 –The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
- 1934 –The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
- 1941 –Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
- 1952 –Secretary‘s Day (now Administrative Professionals’Day) is first celebrated.
- 1960 –Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
- 1962 –The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II.
- 1966 –Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
- 1987 –The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
- 1993 –The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
Who were born on April 21?
- 1767 –Elisabeth of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1790)
- 1919 –Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1930 –Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
- 1951 –Bob Varsha, American motor sports TV commentator
- 1957 –Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
- 1959 –Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
- 1960 –Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 –Rob Riggle, American comedian
- 1978 –Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
- 1987 –Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
Who died on April 21?
- 1868 –Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
- 1924 –Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
- 1930 –Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
- 1948 –Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
- 1989 –Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Charles ‘Buddy’Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
- 2000 –Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
- 2003 –Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
- 2004 –Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
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