April 21st

The April 21st is the 111e Jour of the Année (112e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Before JC

753 av. J.C: Legendary date of the foundation of Rome by Romulus.

1 to 1900

1097 : Raymond of Saint-Gilles, count de Toulouse, arrives at Constantinople, to take share with the First crusade.
1146 : Council of Chartres assembled at the time of the Holy war. Pierre Worthy the is invited to assist to with it by holy Bernard, but it could not go there.
1526 : Victoire of Bâbur to the First battle of Pânipat.
1728 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau abjures the Protestantisme.
1792 : France declares the war in Austria. Prussia declares the war in France under the terms of the austro-Prussian agreement of February 16th.
1792 : Decree project on the general organization of the state education presented to the constituent Assembly by Condorcet.
1836 : Battle of San Jacinto: the Texans revolt against the Mexico and gain their independence.
1895 : With Seville (Spain), alternate of Juan Gómez de Lesca, Spanish Matador.

20th century

1928 : Aristide Briand presents a project of treated putting the Guerre outlaw.
1928 : Exit with the Denmark of the Passion of Jeanne d' Arc film of Carl Theodor Dreyer. (France: October 25th 1928)
1938: First publication of the newspaper of Spirou.
1944 : The right to vote is granted to the Femme S in France
1943: Creation of the
1945:

Evacuation of Ravensbrück.
Taken Stuttgart by the French.

1960 :

Birth of the orthodoxe Faith bahá' íe at Washington DC, the United States.
New capital for the Brazil: Brasilia.

1961 :

Putsch of the generals to Algiers.
Unloading of Bay of the Pigs in Cuba.

1967 :

Putsch of the Greek generals with Athens. Eight years beginning of dictatorship.
France: duel with the foil enters the deputies Gaston Defferre (socialist) and Rene Ribière (gaullist), showing the “victory” of the first (a estafilade inflicted with its adversary).

1986 : Separation of the group Telephone
1997: France: Jacques Chirac announces that it dissolves the National Assembly.

21e century

2001 : With Seville (Spain), Alternative of Shine Vilches, Spanish Matador.
2002 : France: First turn of the presidential election. Jacques Chirac (5 665.855 votes, 19,88%) and Jean-Marie Le Pen (4 804.713 votes, 16,86%) is qualified with the second turn. The socialist candidate , Lionel Jospin, is eliminated (4 610.113 votes, 16,18%). This first turn is regarded by far as a great political shockwave, a candidate of Extrême right-hand side reaching for the first time in the French history to the second turn of a presidential election; this event is commonly called besides “April 21st, 2002”.
2005 : Spain: the deputies authorize the homosexual couples to marry.
2007 : The Olympique Lyonese gains a sixth consecutive title of Champion of France of football of Ligue 1… national and European record for a major Championship of the continent! Moreover Lyon establishes a record of precocity while being crowned at 5 days of the end.

Births

1753 : Jean-Baptiste Attic, French politician, appointed of the Third state of the Seneschalsy of Riom to the General states. († March 26th 1838).
1771 : Népomucène Lemercier, French poet († June 7th 1840)
1774: Jean-Baptiste Biot, physicist and mathematician French († February 3rd 1862)
1785: Charles de Flahaut, soldier and diplomat French († September 2nd 1870), wire illegitimate of Talleyrand and itself illegitimate father of the duke of Morny
1816: Charlotte Brontë, British woman of letters († March 31st 1855)
1828: Hippolyte Taine, French historian († March 5th 1893)
1837: Fredrik Bajer, Danish political personality, Nobel Prize of peace 1908 († January 22nd 1922)
1838: John Muir, naturalist and American writer († 1914)
1848: Francis Charms, journalist, diplom., high position., man polishes. and French academician († January 4th 1916)
1864: max Weber, German sociologist († June 14th 1920)
1875: Andre Siegfried, historian, geographer and academician French († March 28th 1959)
1896: Attila Hörbiger, Austrian actor († April 27th 1987)
1907: Tino Rossi, French singer († September 26th 1983)
1912: Marcel Camus, French realizer († January 13rd 1982)
1915: Anthony Quinn, American actor of Mexican origin († June 3rd 2001)
1920: Bruno Maderna, Type-setter and Italian Leader († November 13rd 1973)
1926: Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom
1940: Souleymane Cissé, scenario writer Malian
1947: Iggy Pop, singer and American actor
1948: Gino Strada, Italian surgeon
1951:

Aleksandr Laveykin, Soviet cosmonaut
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgian realizer
Tony Danza, American actor

1958: Andie MacDowell, American actress
1959: Robert Smith, singer British, leader of the group The Cleans.
1980 : Vincent Lecavalier, player of hockey, team Lightning de Tampa Bay

Death

586 : Léovigild king of the Visigoths
748: Genshō, empress of Japan (° 680)
1073: Alexandre II, pope
1109: Anselme of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (° 1033 or 1034)
1112: Bertrand of Saint-Gilles, count de Toulouse and of Tripoli. (° v. 1065).
1142 : Pierre Abélard, philosopher and theologist French (° 1079).
1329 : Ferry IV of Lorraine, duke of Lorraine (° April 15th 1282)
1352: Boleslas III the Spendthrift, duke of Silesia (° March 23rd 1291
1509: Henri VII, king d' Angleterre (° January 28th 1457)
1551: Nobuhide Oda, samurai (° 1510)
1557: Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (° April 16th 1495)
1574: Cosme Ier of Tuscany, large-duke of Tuscany (° June 12th 1519)
1652: Pietro della Valle known as Pellegrino , Exploring adventurer and Italy N of the 17th century. (° April 2nd 1586).
1699 : Jean Root, French writer (° December 21st 1639)
1718: Philippe of Hire, mathematician and historian French (° March 18th 1640)
1720: Antoine Hamilton, French writer (° 1646)
1730: Jan Palfijn, Flemish doctor-surgeon (° November 28th 1650).
1793 : John Michel, British geologist (° 1724)
1852: Ivan Nabokov, general Russian (° March 11th 1787)
1869: Hermann von Meyer, German paleontologist (° September 3rd 1801)
1900: Alphonse Milne-Edwards, zoologist French (° 1835).
1910 : Mark Twain, American writer (° November 30th 1835).
1912 : Bram Stoker, Irish writer author of Dracula (° November 8th 1847)
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the “ Baron Rouge ”, the ace of the German army (° May 2nd 1892)
1938: Muhammad Iqbal, poet and Moslem Indian philosopher (° November 9th 1877)
1945: Walter Model, German marshal (° January 24th 1891)
1946: John Maynard Keynes, British economist (° June 5th 1883)
1965: Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize of physics 1947 (° September 6th 1892)
1971: François Duvalier, president d' Haïti then dictator (" Life president "). (° April 14th 1907)
1973: Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (° April 13rd 1894)
1980: Alexandre Oparin, Russian biochemist (° March 2nd 1894)
1985: Tancredo Firns, president of Brazil (° March 4th 1910)
1990: Erté, French designer (° September 23rd 1892)
1996: Djokhar Doudaïev, Chechen president (° February 15th 1944)
1996: Robert Harrowing, French tycoon of the press (° January 31st 1920)
2003: Nina Simone, pianist and American singer (° February 22nd 1933)
2005: Feroze Khan, hockey player on Pakistani grass. (° September 9th 1904)
2007: Jules Sbroglia, international footballer French

Almanac

Celebrated saint: Holy Anselme

April 21st 1959, the minimal temperature under shelter in Belgium still tumbled down up to -1,7 degrees with Antwerp.

April 21st 1968, the maximum ones under shelter in Belgium rose up to 24,7 degrees with Saint-Hubert, 28,5 degrees with Brussels, 28,6 degrees with Virton and 30,2 degrees in Campine.

“ With the saint-Anselme, last flowers sows ”
“ Such time with the saint-Anselme, such time during one week ”

See too

April 21st in sport
April 21st in the railroads

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