This Day, That Year – April 21

Born on this day in 1926, Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom and fourteen other Commonwealth realms.

Did you know that:

• Friedrich W.A. Frobel, creator of the first kindergarten, was born on this day in 1782
• Hans Christian Ørsted was the first to discover electromagnetism when he observed a compass needle on this day in 1820
• Alexander Douglas patented the “new and improved” bustle on this day in 1857