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• Today is Sunday, April 21, the 111th day of 2013. There are 254 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 21, 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.
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• On this date:
• In 1509, England's King Henry VII died; he was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII.
• In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
• In 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.
• In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn., at age 74.
• In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action during World War I.
• In 1930, a fire broke out inside the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, killing 332 inmates.
• In 1955, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play "Inherit the Wind," inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, opened at the National Theatre in New York.
• In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
• In 1962, the six-month Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World's Fair, opened.
• In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. explored the surface of the moon.
• In 1980, Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon; however, she was later exposed as a fraud. (Canadian Jacqueline Gareau was named the actual winner of the women's race.)
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