Today in History - History - April 21st

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

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

43 BCBattle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.

1985Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1536Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn's downfall while feigning illness

1904Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

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.

1865Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1894George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man" premieres in London

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

1947Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)

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

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