Daily Calendar for April 21st, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• San Jacinto Day

• San Jacinto Day (Tex.)

• Traditional date when Rome was founded by Romulus, in 753 B.C.

1500s

• Died 1509: King Henry VII of England

1550s

• Died 1552: Peter Apianus (astronomer)

1780s

• 1789: John Adams sworn in as the first vice president of the U.S.

1810s

• Born 1816: Charlotte Brontë (author)

1830s

• 1836: Battle of San Jacinto, Texas

1880s

• 1881: David Dows, largest five-masted schooner of its time, launched

1910s

• Died 1910: Mark Twain (American writer)

• 1912: The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the Titanic

• Born 1915: Anthony Quinn (actor)

• Died 1918: Manfred von Richthofen (aviator, aka the "Red Baron")

1920s

• Born 1926: Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain)

1930s

• Born 1935: Charles Grodin (actor)

1940s

• Born 1949: Patti Lupone (actress and singer)

1950s

• Born 1951: Tony Danza (actor)

• 1959: World record: 2,664-pound great white shark caught off southern coast of Australia

1970s

• Born 1970: Nicole Sullivan (actress)

1980s

• 1980: 70-lb. 5-oz. bigmouth buffalofish caught, Bastrop, Louisiana

1990s

• 1990: 50-lb. 8-oz. African pompano caught, Daytona Beach, Florida

• 1997: Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, journeyed into space

2000s

• 2004: In a procedure billed as a first in the U.S., Stephanie Yarber, an infertile Alabama woman, received a transplanted ovary from her identical twin sister, Melanie Morgan

• 2007: Thirteen year old Morgan Pozgar won the LG National Texting Championship. She typed the message, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious." in 15 seconds

• 2007: 13-yr.-old Morgan Pozgar won LG U.S. National Texting Championship

2010s

• 2012: Chicago White Sox pitcher Phil Humber threw a perfect game

• 2012: Fireball exploded over Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, rattling homes from central California to Reno, Nevada. Experts believe it was caused by a meteoroid about the size of a minivan.

• Died 2015: Mary Doyle Keefe (model for Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting of Rosie the Riveter)

• Died 2016: Prince (musician)