April 21

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April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). There are 254 days remaining.

Events

753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional)
43 BC - Mark Antony is defeated in battle by consul Hirtius in the Battle of Mutina, who is killed.
1836 - Battle of San Jacinto: Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat and capture Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
1863 - Bah�'u'll�h is proclaimed as the head of the Baha'i Faith
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States Congress, on April 25, recognized that a state of war had existed between the United States and Spain as of this date
1912 - The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the Titanic.
1953 - Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, two of Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief aides, recommend the removal of 30,000 books from the libraries of the United States Information Service posts in Europe, including works by Dashiell Hammett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck and Henry David Thoreau, calling them "pro-Communist"
1970 - Hutt River Province secedes from the Commonwealth of Australia
1975 - Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls
1994 - The first discovery of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

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Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "April 21" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_21 December 27, 2003