04-21-2005, 05:12 AM
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April 21st
1816 ~ Birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1836 ~ Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto - Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeated troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Environmentalist.
1910 ~ Death of Mark Twain, Author, Humorist.
1912 ~ The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1918 ~ World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
1944 ~ Women in France were enfranchised.
1946 ~ Death of John Maynard Keynes, Economist.
1956 ~ Elvis Presley's song Heartbreak Hotel became his first song to reach the top of the music charts.
1994 ~ The first extrasolar planets were announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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