April 21<\/p>\n
753 BC \u2013 URBS CONDITA EST Descended from Aeneas, a hero of Troy, Romulus founds Rome. ROMA SUMMUS AMOR<\/p>\n
1509 \u2013 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father King Henry VII.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President, 9 days before George Washington, who is still en route to New York City after being received\u00a0and feted by the Ladies of Trenton.<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 Joaquim Jos\u00e9 da Silva Xavier Tiradentes, leader of the Inconfid\u00eancia Mineira revolutionary movement for Brazil’s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.<\/p>\n
1836 \u2013 In less than 18 minutes of battle, Republic of Texas forces under General Sam Houston defeat Mexican troops under General Antonio L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna at San Jacinto.<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 During the Spanish\u2013American War,\u00a0 the U.S. Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 German fighter ace, Manfred, Baron von Richthofen, called the Red Baron<\/em>, is shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Soviet forces attack the German High Command headquarters at Zossen, 20 miles south of Berlin.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 The U.S. Weather Bureau publish a paper which states the width of a tornado which struck the city of Timber Lake, South Dakota was 4 miles, making it the widest tornado ever documented in history.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 736, a Douglas DC-7, collides with a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Saber<\/em> fighter jet near Arden, Nevada killing all 47 passengers and crew aboard, along with the 2 Air Force pilots<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The new capital of Brazil, Bras\u00edlia is officially inaugurated.\u00a0 At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II opens in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 President of South Vietnam Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u flees Saigon, as Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first Major League relief pitcher to record 300 saves.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Members of the group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord <\/em>in northern Arkansas, surrender to federal authorities after a 2 day siege of the compound.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 During a budget crisis, the city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source from water supplied by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water to the Flint River. Residents almost immediately being filing complaints about the taste, smell, and appearance of the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 21 753 BC \u2013 URBS CONDITA EST Descended from Aeneas, a hero of Troy, Romulus founds Rome. ROMA SUMMUS AMOR 1509 \u2013 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father King Henry VII. 1789 \u2013 John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President, 9 days before George Washington, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92023,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67049\/revisions\/92023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}