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Events on the 21st of March in history

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21 Mar 0537 Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
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21 Mar 0630 Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
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21 Mar 0717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
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21 Mar 1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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21 Mar 1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
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21 Mar 1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
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21 Mar 1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
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21 Mar 1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
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21 Mar 1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
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21 Mar 1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
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21 Mar 1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
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21 Mar 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
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21 Mar 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
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21 Mar 1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
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21 Mar 1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
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21 Mar 1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
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21 Mar 1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
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21 Mar 1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
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21 Mar 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
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21 Mar 1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
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21 Mar 1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
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21 Mar 1804 Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
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21 Mar 1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
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21 Mar 1814 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
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21 Mar 1821 Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
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21 Mar 1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
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21 Mar 1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premieres in Vienna
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21 Mar 1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
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21 Mar 1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today
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21 Mar 1844 The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
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21 Mar 1844 Origin of Bah
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21 Mar 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
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21 Mar 1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
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21 Mar 1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
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21 Mar 1859 1st Zoological Society incorporates (Philadelphia)
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21 Mar 1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
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21 Mar 1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
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21 Mar 1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
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21 Mar 1861 Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
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21 Mar 1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
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21 Mar 1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
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21 Mar 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
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21 Mar 1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
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21 Mar 1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, is founded in New York NY
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21 Mar 1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
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21 Mar 1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
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21 Mar 1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
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21 Mar 1871 Otto von Bismarck elevated F
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21 Mar 1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
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21 Mar 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
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21 Mar 1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London
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21 Mar 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
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21 Mar 1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
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21 Mar 1899 British & French accord about West-Africa
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21 Mar 1907 US invades Honduras
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21 Mar 1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) win Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
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21 Mar 1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
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21 Mar 1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400
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21 Mar 1914 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
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21 Mar 1914 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott
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21 Mar 1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
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21 Mar 1917 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
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21 Mar 1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
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21 Mar 1918 During WWI Germany launches Somme offensive
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21 Mar 1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
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21 Mar 1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St, New York City
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21 Mar 1921 The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
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21 Mar 1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
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21 Mar 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
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21 Mar 1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, New York NY)
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21 Mar 1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
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21 Mar 1925 Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
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21 Mar 1925 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
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21 Mar 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
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21 Mar 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
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21 Mar 1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
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21 Mar 1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
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21 Mar 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
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21 Mar 1931 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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21 Mar 1931 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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21 Mar 1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
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21 Mar 1933 Hitler, G
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21 Mar 1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
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21 Mar 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
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21 Mar 1935 Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
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21 Mar 1935 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris France
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21 Mar 1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
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21 Mar 1937 Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
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21 Mar 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
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21 Mar 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
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21 Mar 1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Mar 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
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21 Mar 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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21 Mar 1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
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21 Mar 1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
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21 Mar 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
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21 Mar 1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
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21 Mar 1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
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21 Mar 1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
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21 Mar 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
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21 Mar 1946 The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
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21 Mar 1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
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21 Mar 1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
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21 Mar 1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
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21 Mar 1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
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21 Mar 1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand vs England at Christchurch
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21 Mar 1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
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21 Mar 1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, Florida (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Mar 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
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21 Mar 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
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21 Mar 1952 "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances
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21 Mar 1952 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
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21 Mar 1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
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21 Mar 1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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21 Mar 1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths
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21 Mar 1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
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21 Mar 1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC / CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Mar 1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
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21 Mar 1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
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21 Mar 1956 28th Academy Awards - "Marty, " Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
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21 Mar 1956 28th Academy Awards: "Marty", Ernest Borgnine & Anna Magnani win
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21 Mar 1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in New York NY
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21 Mar 1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
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21 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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21 Mar 1959 "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
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21 Mar 1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
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21 Mar 1960 Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
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21 Mar 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
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21 Mar 1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
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21 Mar 1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
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21 Mar 1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in the Netherlands for birth control
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21 Mar 1962 Dutch RC Bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
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21 Mar 1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
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21 Mar 1962 Dutch Roman Catholic bishop Beckers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands in favor of birth control
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21 Mar 1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' #36
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21 Mar 1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
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21 Mar 1963 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
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21 Mar 1964 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83
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21 Mar 1964 Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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21 Mar 1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
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21 Mar 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
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21 Mar 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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21 Mar 1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
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21 Mar 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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21 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
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21 Mar 1966 Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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21 Mar 1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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21 Mar 1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City AL franchise
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21 Mar 1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and Fatah.
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21 Mar 1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise
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21 Mar 1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
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21 Mar 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
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21 Mar 1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tom
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21 Mar 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
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21 Mar 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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21 Mar 1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
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21 Mar 1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
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21 Mar 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
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21 Mar 1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
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21 Mar 1971 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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21 Mar 1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Mar 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-year residency to vote
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21 Mar 1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
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21 Mar 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
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21 Mar 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
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21 Mar 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
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21 Mar 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
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21 Mar 1980 Dallas aired its "A House Divided" episode, which led to eight months of international speculation regarding Who shot J.R.?
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21 Mar 1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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21 Mar 1980 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
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21 Mar 1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens and closes at Alvin Theater, New York City
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21 Mar 1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
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21 Mar 1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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21 Mar 1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
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21 Mar 1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
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21 Mar 1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
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21 Mar 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
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21 Mar 1984 Border scores 100 vs West Indies Trinidad after 98 in 1st cricket innings
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21 Mar 1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
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21 Mar 1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
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21 Mar 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
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21 Mar 1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame
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21 Mar 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
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21 Mar 1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 seconds) and 3 km (4:18.02)
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21 Mar 1986 Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
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21 Mar 1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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21 Mar 1986 Karin Kania (German Democratic Republic) skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.52 seconds) & 3 km (4:18.02)
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21 Mar 1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
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21 Mar 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (
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21 Mar 1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
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21 Mar 1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
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21 Mar 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
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21 Mar 1990 "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
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21 Mar 1990 "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
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21 Mar 1990 Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
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21 Mar 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances
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21 Mar 1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
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21 Mar 1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
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21 Mar 1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
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21 Mar 1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
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21 Mar 1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
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21 Mar 1992 2nd WLAF season begins
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21 Mar 1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi
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21 Mar 1993 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
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21 Mar 1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
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21 Mar 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
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21 Mar 1994 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
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21 Mar 1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
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21 Mar 1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
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21 Mar 1994 Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
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21 Mar 1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
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21 Mar 1995 NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
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21 Mar 1996 "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
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21 Mar 1997 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
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21 Mar 1997 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (Germany)
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21 Mar 1997 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
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21 Mar 1997 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
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21 Mar 1997 Wrestlemania XIII
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21 Mar 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
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21 Mar 2000 Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
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21 Mar 2006 The social media site Twitter is founded.
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21 Mar 2009 Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
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