Today is Monday, April 21, on the 111st of 2025. 254 days are left in the year.
Today in history:
On April 21, 2016, Prince, one of the most inventive and influential musicians of modern times, was found dead in his home in the Minneapolis suburbs due to an accidental overdose of fentanyl; He was 57 years old.
Also on this date:
In 1836, an army of Tejanos, led by Sam Houston, defeated the Mexican Army, led by Antonio López de Santa Anna, in the battle of San Jacinto, the final battle of the Texas Revolution.
In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut, at 74.
In 1918, the German pilot of the Air Force Manfred von Richthofen, nicknamed “The Red Baron”, was killed at the age of 25 after receiving a duration of an air battle from the First World War on Vaux-Sur-Somme, France.
In 1930, the fire broke out within the Ohio Overcrimized penitentiary in Columbus, killing 322 inmates in the most fatal prison disaster in the history of the United States.
In 1975, with the communist forces that were approaching, the president of South Vietnam, Nguyễn, Thiệu resigned after almost 10 years in office, fleeing from the country five days later.
In 1980, Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon, but then exposed after having cheated when she entered the racecourse less than 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) before the finish line. (The Canadian Jacqueline Gareau was appointed the royal winner of the women’s career).
In 2015, an Egyptian Criminal Court sentenced the overthrive president Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison for the murder of protesters in 2012 (Morsi collapsed and died in the trial for espionage charges in June 2019.)
Today’s birthday:
- The actor-comedian filmmaker Elaine May is 93.
- The activist author Sister Helen Prejean is 86 years old.
- The singer Iggy Pop is 78 years old.
- Actor Patti Lupone is 76.
- Actor Tony Danza is 74 years old.
- Actor Andie Macdowell is 67 years old.
- The musician Robert Smith (The Cure) is 66.
- Actor Rob Riggle is 55 years old.
- Actor James Mcavoy is 46 years old.
- The former NFL field marshal, Tony Romo, is 45 years old.
- The actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw is 42.
