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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 21
- 250th: 1774 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Daniel Melnick in New York City, New York, USA; producer (Get Smart).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Ira Louvin in Rainesville, Alabama; USA; gospel and bluegrass singer (The Louvin Brothers, "Satan Is Real", "Make Him a Soldier", "When I Stop Dreaming", "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby").
- 100th: 1924 - Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at age 64.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Martin Horton; cricket player, England off-spin all rounder, two Tests 1959).
- 90th: 1934 - Moe Berg, Washington Senators' catcher, plays American League record 117th consecutive errorless game.
- 80th: 1944 - NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on December 3).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Dale Eggeling in Statesboro, Georgia, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile Classic).
- 70th: 1954 - Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR.
- 70th: 1954 - US Air Force flies French battalion to Vietnam.
- 70th: 1954 - In the Foley Square U.S. Courthouse in New York, a congressional subcommittee begins a three-day televised investigation of the causes of juvenile delinquency. The comic-book industry is vilified, leading to laws in several states restricting comic sales, and industry self-censorship.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Louise Mullard in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales; golfer (1990 T3 Coca Cola Classic).
- 60th: 1964 - Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs combine for nine homeruns, Pirates win 8-5.
- 50th: 1974 - 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win.
- 50th: 1974 - Third Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Brice Hunter; wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 40th: 1984 - Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
- 40th: 1984 - Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 km/h.
- 40th: 1984 - Montreal Expos' David Palmer no-hits Saint Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect five-inning game.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Ashley Peldon in Staten Island, New York; actress (Marah Lewis - Guilding Light, Deceived).
- 30th: 1994 - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit homeruns in a game (11 times).
- 30th: 1994 - Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze, Bosnia, 28 killed.
- 30th: 1994 - The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.
- 20th: 2004 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s, is released from prison in Israel after serving 18 years for treason.
- 15th: 2009 - UNESCO launches The World Digital Library.
- 5th: 2019 - A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured.
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