TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 21 2019
0043 Marcus Antonius is defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy.
0753 Traditional date of the foundation of Rome.
1649 The Maryland Toleration Act is passed, allowing all people freedom of worship.
1689 William III and Mary II are crowned joint king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1792 Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro
1836 General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas wins independence from Mexico.
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1914 U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico. They will stay six months.
1918 World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen “The Red Baron”, shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill
1934 The Surgeon’s photo, allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail
1967 Dictator Georgios Papadopoulos assumes power in Greece During his six-year reign, thousands of political opponents were incarcerated and tortured.
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s vault on TV & finds nothing
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1995 Federal authorities arrest Timothy McVeigh in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 The ashes of Timothy Leary, Gene Roddenberry, and 22 others blasted into space for the first space funerals.
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