What day of the week was April 21, 1898?

The day of the week April 21st, 1898 fell on was a Thursday.

Maurice Wilson the English soldier, pilot, and mountaineer (d. 1934) was born on 21 April in 1898.

Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25 the it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.