Today in History - History - April 21st

1796Napoleon and the French defeat the Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi

1987Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)

1865Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1963Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open

1975Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1956Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1

1994Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)

1789John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)

1509Henry VIII crowned King of England

1918World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown was credited with the kill.

1926Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, London UK, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1952- )

1959Robert Smith, Sussex, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)

1918Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25

1910Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74