March 21st Events |
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| March 21st, 2006 (March 21 2006) | Event | Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage. | |
| March 21st, 2004 (March 21 2004) | Event | In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority. | |
| March 21st, 2002 (March 21 2002) | Event | In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. | Earl Long Quotes |
| March 21st, 2002 (March 21 2002) | Event | British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. | |
| March 21st, 1999 (March 21 1999) | Event | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. | |
| March 21st, 1998 (March 21 1998) | Event | Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland. | |
| March 21st, 1997 (March 21 1997) | Event | In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49. | |
| March 21st, 1990 (March 21 1990) | Event | Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. | |
| March 21st, 1989 (March 21 1989) | Event | Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling. | |
| March 21st, 1985 (March 21 1985) | Event | Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. | |
| March 21st, 1980 (March 21 1980) | Event | US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| March 21st, 1980 (March 21 1980) | Event | On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?" | |
| March 21st, 1970 (March 21 1970) | Event | The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. | |
| March 21st, 1970 (March 21 1970) | Event | Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC s Wide World of Sports. | |
| March 21st, 1968 (March 21 1968) | Event | Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah. | |
| March 21st, 1965 (March 21 1965) | Event | Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. | |
| March 21st, 1965 (March 21 1965) | Event | 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. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| March 21st, 1964 (March 21 1964) | Event | In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l eta" ("I m not old enough"). | |
| March 21st, 1963 (March 21 1963) | Event | Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. | |
| March 21st, 1960 (March 21 1960) | Event | Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. | |
| March 21st, 1952 (March 21 1952) | Event | Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| March 21st, 1945 (March 21 1945) | Event | World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. | |
| March 21st, 1943 (March 21 1943) | Event | Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. | |
| March 21st, 1937 (March 21 1937) | Event | Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship. | |
| March 21st, 1935 (March 21 1935) | Event | Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means Land of the Aryans . | |
| March 21st, 1933 (March 21 1933) | Event | Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed. | |
| March 21st, 1928 (March 21 1928) | Event | Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight. | |
| March 21st, 1918 (March 21 1918) | Event | World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins. | |
| March 21st, 1913 (March 21 1913) | Event | Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. | |
| March 21st, 1871 (March 21 1871) | Event | Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. | |
| March 21st, 1871 (March 21 1871) | Event | Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. | |
| March 21st, 1859 (March 21 1859) | Event | Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated | |
| March 21st, 1857 (March 21 1857) | Event | An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000. | |
| March 21st, 1844 (March 21 1844) | Event | The Baha i calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baha i calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baha i Faith as the Baha i New Year or Naw-Ruz. | |
| March 21st, 1844 (March 21 1844) | Event | The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ. | William Miller Quotes |
| March 21st, 1821 (March 21 1821) | Event | First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence. | |
| March 21st, 1804 (March 21 1804) | Event | Code Napoleon is adopted as French civil law. | |
| March 21st, 1801 (March 21 1801) | Event | The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt. | |
| March 21st, 1800 (March 21 1800) | Event | 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-mache. | |
| March 21st, 1788 (March 21 1788) | Event | A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. | |
| March 21st, 1556 (March 21 1556) | Event | In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. | |
| March 21st, 1413 (March 21 1413) | Event | Henry V becomes King of England. | |
| March 21st, 1188 (March 21 1188) | Event | Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku. | |
| March 21st, 0717 (March 21 0717) | Event | Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. | |
| March 21st, 0630 (March 21 0630) | Event | Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. | |
