Stuff That Happened on April 21st

Yesterday was my birthday so I looked up some other neat stuff that happened on April 21st.

Births
1729 Catherine the Great, Russian Royalty
1816 Charlotte Bronte, novelist, Jane Eyre
1838 John Muir, naturalist / discoverer
1926 Queen Elizabeth II, English Royalty
1930 Don Tyson, founder of Tyson Foods
1947 Iggy Pop, Zombie Birdhouse
1951 Tony Danza, actor, “Taxi”
1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin, Russian cosmonaut
1959 Jerry Only, bassist, The Misfits
1959 Robert Smith, guitar and vocals, The Cure
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, Russian cosmonaut
1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel

Deaths
1910 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), author, Huckleberry Finn
1918 Red Baron (Manfred von Richtofen), German aviator in WWI
1946 John Maynard Keynes, English economist
1977 Gummo “Milton” Marx, comic, Marx Brothers
1996 Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, oddsmaker / sportscaster

Events
753 BC Founding of Rome
1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England
1689 William III and Mary Stuart become king and queen of England
1789 John Adams sworn in as first U.S. Vice President
1828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary
1862 Congress establishes U.S. Mint in Denver, CO
1865 Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train leaves Washington
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1898 Phillies’ pitcher, Bill Duggleby, hits a grand slam on first at bat
1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1913 Gideon Sundback patents the zipper
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazis
1956 Elvis Presley’s first hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel,” becomes #1
1959 Alf Dean sets record for largest fish caught on a rod and reel, 2,664 lb great white shark
1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time
1967 Josef Stalin’s daughter (Svetlana Alliluyeva) defects in New York City
1972 John Young and Charles Duke explore the Moon, Apollo 16
1980 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit, MI
1982 Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs first successful heart transplant
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to cheer students demanding greater political freedom