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Events on April 21

• 1509 With the death of his father Henry VII, Henry VIII of the House of Tudor becomes King of England. The coronation takes place on June 24.
• 1519 The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés lands at San Juan de Ulúa on the coast of Mexico, near the present-day city of Veracruz, from where he begins the conquest of Mexico and the Aztec Empire.
• 1918 In the aerial warfare of the First World War, the German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, the “Red Baron,” is shot down and killed with his Fokker Dr.I in an aerial battle against an RAF fighter squadron led by Arthur Roy Brown over France.
• 1934 The Apennine Base Tunnel, located between Florence and Bologna, is opened. The railway tunnel shortens the previously existing rail connection by 35 kilometers
• 1946 In Berlin, the two-day merger party congress begins, at which the KPD under Wilhelm Pieck and the SPD under Otto Grotewohl merge in the Soviet occupation zone to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
• 1960 President Juscelino Kubitschek inaugurates the planned capital Brasília, designed by the architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, thereby replacing Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil.
• 1967 In Greece, Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos seizes power through a coup against Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou. This marks the beginning of the seven-year Greek military dictatorship. King Constantine II initially takes a wait-and-see stance.
• 1985 The Brazilian Ayrton Senna wins his first Formula 1 race, the Portuguese Grand Prix. Over the course of the season, however, despite several pole positions, he manages only one further victory.
• 1988 Hans-Joachim Bohlmann carries out a sulfuric acid attack on three works by Albrecht Dürer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich: the Paumgartner Altarpiece, The Lamentation of Christ, and Mary as Mother of Sorrows. The damage amounts to around 100 million Deutsche marks.
• 1989 Nintendo releases the Game Boy handheld console, developed by Gunpei Yokoi, in Japan, and it goes on to become a worldwide multimillion seller. The game Tetris, invented by the Russian Alexei Paschitnow, is included in the package.
• 1993 NCSA Mosaic 1.0, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the first web browser capable of displaying text and graphics on a single page, is released.
• 2001 Under the law on combating dangerous dogs, the import of certain dog breeds into Germany is prohibited on pain of punishment. The legislature is thus responding to increased, sometimes fatal, attacks by fighting dogs on people.

Born on April 21

• 1864 Max Weber, German sociologist, jurist, political economist and social economist
• 1900 Hans Fritzsche, German journalist
• 1904 Odilo Globocnik, Austrian National Socialist and SS member
• 1920 Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor
• 1930 Dieter Roth, Swiss poet and graphic artist, action and object artist
• 1940 Peter Schneider, German writer
• 1951 Tony Danza, American actor
• 1970 Michael Sternkopf, German footballer
• 1971 Ekin Deligöz, German politician
• 1981 Lina Beckmann, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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