April 21 is the 111th (112th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left before the end of the year is 254.

Railways

• April 21, 1913 The Ottoman government makes some concessions to eliminate British opposition to the Baghdad Railway.

Olaylar

• 753 BC. AD – Romulus and Remus found Rome.
• 1821 – Grand Vizier Benderli Ali Pasha resigns and is executed on April 30. Benderli Ali Pasha was the last known Grand Vizier to be executed by order of the Sultan.
• 1920 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha issues a circular stating that the Assembly would be opened on April 23, 1920.
• 1930 – A fire in a prison in Columbus, Ohio kills 320 people.
• 1939 – Hatay is included in the Turkish customs tariff.
• 1939 – The San Jacinto Monument, the tallest concrete monument column in the world, is unveiled in the US state of Texas.
• 1944 – Women obtain the right to vote in France.
• 1952 – With the agreement signed between Turkey and Greece, visa formalities are abolished.
• 1956 – by Elvis Presley Altar of broken hearts song name, Billboard It was her first work to reach number 1 in the magazine.
• 1957 – Muhsin Ertuğrul is appointed head of municipal theaters in Istanbul Municipality.
• 1960 – Brasilia officially becomes the capital of Brazil. The former capital was Rio de Janeiro.
• 1964 – Greek Vice Patriarch Emilyanos and Metropolitan Canavaris expelled for operating against Turkey.
• 1964 – Greece agrees to place its military contingent in Cyprus under the command of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
• 1967 – Coup in Greece. The “Junta of Colonels” led by Yorgo Papadopoulos seized power and the military regime that would last seven years began.
• 1968 – The United States, the United Kingdom and Russia sign a treaty to rescue astronauts in distress.
• 1970 – The Principality of Hutt River Province declares its independence from Australia.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu leaves Saigon.
• 1979 – The Romanian-flagged freighter Karpati and the iron-laden coaster Kemal Kefeli collide in the Bosphorus. The Turkish ship sank with 17 crew members, the bodies of two sailors were found, five people were lost. The Romanian freighter was caught by the police engine as it fled.
• 1987 – A vehicle bomb explodes in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. 113 people died.
• 1994 – The first extrasolar planets are discovered by Polish astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
• 2003 – After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Administration ruled the country until June 28, 2004.
• 2004 – Mordechai Vanunu is released from prison after 18 years in Israel. He was arrested again on November 20, 2005 for illegally entering the Palestinian territories and violating the conditions of his release. Moroccan physicist Vanunu exposed Israel’s secret nuclear work in 1986 with documents and photographs.
• 2005 – GNAT Presidency Council, GNAT 85th Anniversary National Sovereignty Honor Award to Professor Dr. He decided to give it to Gazi Yaşargil.
• 2008 – The United States Air Force decommissioned the F-117 Nighthawk, also known as the “Night Hawk”, which went undetected.
• 2011 – 15 people lost their lives in the attack on Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
• 2014 – The city of Flint, Michigan, USA, changed its drinking water source to the Flint River, and the Flint water crisis began due to high levels of lead in the water.

births

• 1488 – Ulrich von Hutten, German philosopher and poet (died 1523)
• 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist and author (died 1729)
• 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862)
• 1790 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (died 1876)
• 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English writer (Jane Eyre famous for his work) (died 1855)
• 1828 Hippolyte Taine, French historian (d. 1893)
• 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish author, teacher, pacifist politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 1922)
• 1864 – Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
• 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (died 1961)
• 1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violin virtuoso, composer and conductor (died 1985)
• 1911 – Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician (former General Secretary of CHP) (died 1991)
• 1913 – Sami Ayanoğlu, Turkish theatre, film actor, director, screenwriter and producer (died 1971)
• 1913 – Sevket Rado, Turkish journalist and writer (died 1988)
• 1915 – Anthony Quinn, American actor and Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner (died 2001)
• 1922 – Nazim Kıbrısî, Turkish mystic and sheikh of the Naqshbandi order (died 2014)
• 1923 – Bahaeddin Ögel, professor of Turkish history (died 1989)
• 1926-II. Elizabeth, Queen of England
• 1930 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (died 2012)
• 1941 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor
• 1947 – Barbara Park, American author (died 2013)
• 1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician, singer, songwriter, drummer and actor
• 1951 – Tony Danza, American actor
• 1955 – Murathan Mungan, Turkish playwright and poet
• 1955 – Kris Kelmi, Soviet-Russian musician and composer (died 2019)
• 1959 – Ayşe Sucu, Turkish journalist and writer
• 1961 – Ulvi Arı, Turkish mime artist, actress and writer
• 1963 – Behzat Uygur, Turkish theatre, television series and film actor
• 1971 – Nebil Sayin, Turkish actress
• 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
• 1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
• 1983 – Marco Donadel, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Robert Patrick “Robbie” Amell, Canadian actor
• 1990 – Tunay Torun, German-Turkish footballer
• 1992 – Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
• 1992 – Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez or Isco for short, Spanish national football player

Armed

• 43 BC – Aulus Hirtius becomes Roman consul shortly after Julius Caesar (90 BC)
• 599 – Anastasius I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (born?)
• 866 – Bardas, Byzantine nobleman and high minister
• 1073 – Pope II. Alexander, Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1010 or 1015)
• 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Benedictine monk, philosopher and theologian known for his ontological proof of the existence of God (b. 1033)
• 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer and philosopher (born in 1079)
• 1509-VII. Henry, King of England (b. 1457)
• 1699 – Jean Racine, French poet and playwright (born in 1639)
• 1714 – Vasily Golitsyn, Russian statesman (b. 1643)
• 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, Austrian general (b. 1663)
• 1793 – John Michell, English natural philosopher and clergyman (b. 1724)
• 1866 – Jane Welsh Carlyle, Scottish author (b. 1801)
• 1910 – Mark Twain, American novelist and humorist (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron), German pilot (b. 1892)
• 1938 – Mohammed Iqbal, Pakistani poet (b. 1877)
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• 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (b. 1892)
• 1966 – Josef Dietrich, German general in the Waffen-SS (b. 1892)
• 1971 – François Duvalier, President of Haiti (b. 1907)
• 1973 – Kemal Tahir, Turkish writer (born in 1910)
• 1985 – Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazilian politician (born 1910)
• 1996 – Cahar Dudayev, Chechen commander (born in 1944)
• 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher (born in 1924)
• 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer, pianist and human rights activist (born 1933)
• 2006 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (born 1931)
• 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sportsman (born in 1920)
• 2011 – Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist and philosopher (born 1917)
• 2011 – Sofía Silva Inserri, Venezuelan model (born in 1929)
• 2013 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer (born 1959)
• 2015 – John Moshoeu, South African footballer (born 1965)
• 2016 – Prince, American musician (born in 1958)
• 2017 – Enrico Medioli, Italian screenwriter (born in 1925)
• 2018 – Verne Troyer, American actor, comedian and stuntman (born in 1969)
• 2019 – Hannelore Elsner, German actress and fashion designer (born in 1942)
• 2019 – Steven Golin, American film and television producer (born 1955)
• 2019 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (born in 1935)
• 2020 – Abdurrahim El-Keib, Libyan politician (born in 1950)
• 2020 – Donald Kennedy, American scientist, journalist, bureaucrat, and scholar (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Teruyuki Okazaki, Japanese karate (born in 1931)
• 2020 – Jacques Pellen, French jazz guitarist (born in 1957)
• 2020 – Laisenia Qarase, Fijian politician (born 1941)
• 2020 – Florian Schneider-Esleben, German electronic dance music artist and pop singer (born 1947)
• 2021 – Mercedes Colás de Meroño, Argentine human rights activist (born 1925)
• 2021 – Myriam Colombi, French theatre, film and television actress (born in 1940)
• 2021 – Thomas Fritsch, German actor and voice actor (born in 1944)
• 2021 – Marian Kosiński, Polish professional footballer and manager (born 1945)
• 2021 – Lea Dali Lion, Estonian singer, musician and composer (born in 1974)
• 2021 – Joe Long, American musician (born in 1932)
• 2021 – Annie Steiner, Algerian activist (born in 1928)

Holidays and special occasions

• Baha’i – the first day of the Ridvan festival.
• Midwifery Week (April 21 – 28)
• Storm: the beginning of Sitte-i Sevr
• Nevruz Festival