April 21 birthdays & history

Famous people born on April 21

• 1926Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms
• 1864Max Weber, German economist and sociologist
• 1816Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet
• 1915Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor
• 1882Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1979James McAvoy, Scottish actor
• 1774Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
• 1889Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1992Isco, Spanish footballer

What happened on April 21

• 753 BCAccording to the calculations of the ancient Roman scholar Varro Reatinus, Romulus and Remus legendarily founded the city of Rome.
• 900A debt was pardoned by the chief of Tondo on the island of Luzon and recorded on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known calendar-dated document found in the Philippines.
• 995Ælfric of Abingdon was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1615The Wignacourt Aqueduct in Malta was inaugurated, and was used to carry water to Valletta for about 300 years.
• 1725J. S. Bach's cantata Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, was first performed on Easter Monday.
• 1789The Ladies of Trenton social club hosted a reception for President-elect George Washington as he journeyed to New York City for his first inauguration.
• 1856Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an eight-hour day.
• 1934The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).
• 1952Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
• 1960Brasília, a planned city primarily designed by architect and urban planner Lúcio Costa, was officially inaugurated, replacing Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil.
• 1963The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith.
• 1970In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Australia to be an independent country as the Hutt River Province.

Also observed on April 21

• Natale di Roma (Rome)
• Parilia (ancient Rome)
• Civil Service Day (India)
• Grounation Day (Rastafari)
• National Tea Day (United Kingdom)
• National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)