On This Day: April 21, 2018
Birthdays:| 1782 | Friedrich Froebel, German educationalist | | 1913 | Richard Beeching, British Rail chairman | | 1915 | Anthony Quinn, American film actor | | 1923 | John Mortimer, Author & playwright | | 1926 | Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth | | 1932 | Angela Mortimer, Tennis player | | 1935 | Charles Grodin, American film actor |
Events:| 1910 | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), the US novelist of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', died | | 1964 | BBC2 began broadcasting for the first time | | 1972 | Apollo 17 (Ceran & Scmitt) landed on the Moon. This was the last Apollo mission | | 1975 | President Thieu resigned, as Saigon in Vietnam, was surrounded | | 1977 | Martial Law was imposed in several Pakistani cities | | 1983 | The pound coin came into circulation, replacing the paper pound note | | 1986 | It was announced that Libyan students were to be expelled from Britain | | 1989 | 100,000 chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square |
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