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What happened in history on this day: April 21?
On April 21 in ...
- 1949 - The George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting is presented to You Bet Your Life star Groucho Marx.
- 1956 - Ten-year-old Leonard Ross wins $100,000 on TV quiz program The Big Surprise.
- 1970 - Sportscaster Curt Gowdy receives the George Foster Peabody Award for achievement in radio and television, the first sports broadcaster to receive the honor.
- 1982 - CBS airs the final episode of TV show WKRP in Cincinnati.
- 1984 - Nightline TV show reverts back from 1 hour to 1/2 hour.
- 1986 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on live TV show The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault and finds nothing inside.
- 1993 - CBS airs the first episode of TV show Walker, Texas Ranger, starring Chuck Norris.
Births on April 21
- 1886 - Birth of Charlie Naughton in Glasgow, Scotland; actor (Frozen Limits).
- 1896 - Birth of Attila Hörbiger; Austrian actor (Die Grosse Liebe, Die Julika).
- 1907 - Birth of Beatrice Kay in New York City, New York, USA; singer/actress (Sister Sue - Calvin and the Colonel).
- 1915 - Birth of Anthony Quinn in Chihuahua, México; actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia).
- 1916 - Birth of Sidney Clute in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey).
- 1920 - Birth of Christopher Dark in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Suddenly, Tenderfoot).
- 1921 - Birth of Jack Fletcher in Forrest Hills, New York, USA; actor (Grady, Bob Crane Show).
- 1923 - Birth of Andrea Domburg; Dutch actress (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel).
- 1924 - Birth of Daniel Melnick in New York City, New York, USA; producer (Get Smart).
- 1930 - Birth of Silvana Mangano in Rome, Italy; actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas).
- 1932 - Birth of Elaine May in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comedienne/writer/actress (New Leaf).
- 1935 - Birth of Charles Grodin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Beethoven, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid, 60 Minutes II, Charles Grodin Show, Fresno).
- 1940 - Birth of Souleymane Cisse; film director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara).
- 1948 - Birth of Claire Denis in Paris, France; actress (Boom Boom, Chocolat).
- 1949 - Birth of Patti LuPone in Northport, New York, USA; stage/screen actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On, Oz).
- 1951 - Birth of Tony Danza in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Tony Banta - Taxi, Tony Micelli - Who's The Boss?, Tony Danza Show).
- 1958 - Birth of Andie [Rosalie Anderson] MacDowell in Gaffney, South Carolina, USA; actress (Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Greystoke).
- 1963 - Birth of John Cameron Mitchell in El Paso, Texas, USA; actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand).
- 1978 - Birth of Avi Phillips in Ontario, Canada; actor (Maniac Mansion).
- 1984 - Birth of Ashley Peldon in Staten Island, New York; actress (Marah Lewis - Guilding Light, Deceived).
Deaths on April 21
- 1924 - Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at age 64.
- 1930 - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at age 79.
- 1952 - Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at age 61.
- 1961 - Death of James Melton at age 56 of pneumonia; American operatic tenor (The Ziegfield Follies of the Air, The Intimate Review, Bell Telephone Hour, Harvest of Stars, The Texaco Star Theatre).
- 1968 - Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer, killed shooting stunt at age 48.
- 1971 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at age 81.
- 1973 - Ursula Jeans [McMinn], actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at age 66.
- 1977 - Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at age 84.
- 1982 - Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara - Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at age 80.
- 1983 - Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at age 80.
- 1985 - Death of Foster Hewitt at age 82; hockey broadcaster (thousands of NHL, world, and Olympic hockey matches).
- 1989 - James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at age 64.
- 1998 - Death of Peter Lind Hayes at age 82; actor/singer and radio-TV host (Peter Loves Mary TV show).
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