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21 Aprile

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The 21st o Aprile is the 111t day o the year (112t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 254 days ti come.

Events

753 BC: Romulus, Remus an the wolf - pairt o the legend o the foondin o Roum

1960: Brasilia, caipital o Brazil

753 BC - Legendary foondin date o Roum.
1509 - Henry VIII o Ingland becomes Keeng.
1782 - The ceety o Bangkok is foondit.
1908 - Frederick Cook claims tae hae reached the North Pole on this date.
1910 - As he hae predicitit, Mark Twain's daith coincides wi the reappearance o Halley's Comet in the nicht sky, juist like his birth hae done.
1918 - German Warld War I ace Manfred von Richthofen is shot doon ower Northren Fraunce.
1935 - A magnitude 7.1 yirdquauk in Taiwan kills 3,276 fowk.
1960 - Brasilia, the planned caipital ceety o Brazil, is inauguratit.
1966 - Haile Selassie o Ethiopie visits Jamaica.
1985 - Ayrton Senna wins a Formula Ane race for the first time.
1989 - Nintendo releases the Game Boy.
2002 - Jacques Chirac an far-richt leader Jean-Marie Le Pen mak it tae the seicont roond o Fraunce's Preses election.
2004 - Suicide bombers kill 74 fowk in Basra, Iraq.
2010 - Air traffic in the Unitit Kinrick re-stairts efter the shut-doon due tae volcanic ash frae Iceland.
2018 - Carwyn Jones propales his intention tae demit as First Meenister o Wales.
2019 - Bomb attacks on kirks and hottles in Sri Lanka (maist o thaim in or naur Colombo) on Pace Sunday kill 295 fowk.
2019 - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is electit Preses o Ukraine.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit Kinrick records it heichest daily daith toll durin the creesis.
2020 - Lebanon's pairlament legalises cannabis fairmin for medicinal purposes.

Births

Queen Elizabeth II

James McAvoy

1671 − John Law, Scots economist (d. 1729)
1816 - Charlotte Bronte, Inglis novelist (d. 1855)
1817 - Nicol Alexander Dalzell, Scots botanist (d. 1878)
1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Dens politeecian (d. 1922)
1838 − John Muir, Scots naituralist (d. 1914)
1851 - Alexander Macfarlane, Scots logician, pheesicist an mathemateecian (d. 1913)
1864 - Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American pheesicist (d. 1961)
1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (d. 1971)
1894 - Willie McStay, Scots fitbawer (d. 1974)
1905 - Pat Brown, American politeecian, Govrenor o Californie (d. 1996)
1915 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scots novelist (d. 1987)
1926 − Queen Elizabeth II o the Unitit Kinrick an Commonweel realms
1930 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
1947 - Iggy Pop, American muisicker
1958 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
1970 - Nicole Sullivan, American actress
1979 - Tobias Linderoth, Swadish fitbawer
1979 - James McAvoy, Scots actor
1986 - Blair Cowan, New Zealand-Scots rugby union player
1988 - Adam Rooney, Erse fitbawer
1989 - Tatyana McFadden, Roushie-born American wheelchair racer
1992 - Deng Linlin, Cheenese gymnast
1992 - Isco, Spainyie fitbawer
2007 - Princess Isabella o Denmark

Daiths

2016: Tributes left for the muisicker Prince

1073 − Pape Alexander II
1509 - Henry VII o Ingland (b. 1457)
1561 - Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess Consort o Ferrara (b. 1545)
1574 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke o Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 - Jean Racine, French writer (b. 1639)
1869 - Robert Scott Lauder, Scots airtist (b. 1803)
1889 - Robert Stirling Newall, Scots ingineer an astronomer (b. 1812)
1910 − Mark Twain, American author an humorist (b. 1835)
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German Warld War I pilot (b. 1892)
1938 - Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani poet (b. 1877)
1940 - George Barnes, Scots politeecian (b. 1859)
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, Inglis economist (b. 1883)
1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, Inglis pheesicist (b. 1892)
1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politeecian (b. 1944)
2001 - Ian Campbell, 12t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (b. 1937)
2003 - Nina Simone, American sangster (b. 1933)
2010 - Sammy Baird, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
2010 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spaingie Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee (b. 1920)
2016 - Prince, American sangster an muisicker (b. 1958)
2018 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2018 - Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969)

Halidays

John Muir Day (Californie)
San Jacinto Day (Texas)
Tiradentes Day (Brazil)
Grounation Day in the Rastafari muivement

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