What to remember about April 21st…
- 753 B.C. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional)
- 1836 Sam Houston leads Texas militia in surprise attack on Mexican troops along San Jacinto River capturing General Santa Anna himself
- 1838 Scottish naturalist and conservationist John Muir is born (d. 1914); co-founder of the Sierra Club
- 1865 Funeral train bearing Abraham Lincoln departs Washington, D.C.
- 1910 American author and humorist Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens dies as predicted at the departure of Halley’s Comet (b. 1835)
- 1918 Notorious German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen is shot down and killed; 25-year-old “Red Baron” had shot down 80 enemy aircraft
- 1975 Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns as communist forces approach the capital; he then flees the country
- 1986 Journalist Geraldo Rivera opens vault belonging to notorious mobster Al Capone; after much build up and self promotion, nothing is found
- 1989 100,000 Chinese students gather in Tiananmen Square to protest oppressive communist government
- 2004 Grand jury indicts pop singer Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation
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