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-- card: 52885 from stack: in.0
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April 21
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In 753, B.C., according to legend, Rome was founded.
In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.
In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in World War I.
In 1940, the quiz show that asked the "$64 question," "Take It or Leave It," premiered on CBS radio.
In 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, arrived in New York City.
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Actor Anthony Quinn (1915)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth (1926)
Actress-comedian-writer Elaine May (1932)
Actor Charles Grodin (1935)
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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
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John Adams.