Today in History
21st March
Johann Sebastian Bach
Charlotte Bronte
Henry M Stanley
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| 1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany | ||
| 1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British |
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| 1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint was born | ||
| 1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus | ||
| 1521 Mauritius, duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53) was born | ||
| 1556 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic. | ||
| 1609 Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68) was born | ||
| 1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons | ||
| 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London | ||
| 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach Eisenach Germany, composer (Matthäus-Passion) was born | ||
| 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe | ||
| 1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament | ||
| 1765 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat was born | ||
| 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist was born | ||
| 1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana | Johann Sebastian Bach |
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| 1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans | ||
| 1804 The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was promulgated. | ||
| 1816 Charlotte Bronte novelist/poet was born | ||
| 1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses | ||
| 1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass | ||
| 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California | ||
| 1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die | ||
| 1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated | ||
| 1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh | ||
| 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman | ||
| 1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa | ||
| 1871 Chancellor Otto von Bismarck opened the first Reichstag (parliament) in the newly created German Reich. |
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| 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns | ||
| 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law | ||
| 1899 British & French accord about West-Africa | ||
| 1906 John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil) was born | ||
| 1907 US invades Honduras | ||
| 1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as governator-general of Netherland Indies | ||
| 1917 Czar Nicholas II and his family were arrested by revolutionary forces in Russia. | ||
| 1918 The Second Battle of the Somme, the last German offensive in World War I, began. | ||
| 1919 A pro-Soviet coup headed by Bela Kun overthrew the government of Hungary. | ||
| 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition | ||
| 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens | Charlotte Bronte |
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| 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar | ||
| 1927 The Nationalist Chinese forces of Chiang Kai-shek took the city of Shanghai, communist forces and local warlords having fled before they arrived. | ||
| 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 | ||
| 1935 Persia officially renamed Iran | ||
| 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade | ||
| 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland | ||
| 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta | ||
| 1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails | ||
| 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia | ||
| 1944 Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy | ||
| 1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa | ||
| 1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany | ||
| 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police | ||
| 1945 British warplanes destroyed Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, killing over 70 Nazis. The raid also killed civilians, including 86 schoolchildren, in Denmark's worst civilian disaster of the war. | ||
| 1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur | ||
| 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea | ||
| 1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage |
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| 1952 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US | ||
| 1952 Kwame Nkrumah became prime minister of the Gold Coast (later Ghana), the first African to be elected prime minister south of the Sahara. | ||
| 1953 As part of the Anglo-Egyptian plan for the future of Sudan, a self-government statute was signed leading to elections and independence. | ||
| 1960 Almost 70 people were killed and more than 180 wounded when South African police fired on a peaceful black demonstration in Sharpeville in the Transvaal. | ||
| 1963 Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed when the last 27 prisoners were transferred. | ||
| 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact | ||
| 1965 Martin Luther King led the start of a 4,000-strong civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. | ||
| 1968 Israel launched an attack on Karameh in the Jordan Valley in retaliation for raids and sabotage in the occupied territories. | ||
| 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall | Henry M Stanley |
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| 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years | ||
| 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel | ||
| 1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon | ||
| 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan | ||
| 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed | ||
| 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral | ||
| 1989 Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke wept on television as he admitted to an extra-marital affair. | ||
| 1990 Namibia, formerly known as South-West Africa, became independent after 75 years of South African rule. | ||
| 1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide | ||
| 1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint | ||
| 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl | ||
| 1994 The last Italian soldiers ended their 15-month peacekeeping mission in Somalia. | ||
| 1996 Goran Persson, a former finance minister, became Swedish prime minister. |
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