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March 21 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 21. The list is arranged in chronological order.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1946
    The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
  • 1952
    Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • 1960
    Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
  • 1963
    Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
  • 1965
    Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
  • 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.
  • 1968
    Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and Fatah.
  • 1970
    The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
  • 1980
    US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
  • 1980
    Dallas airs its “A House Divided” episode, which leads to eight months of international speculation regarding Who shot J.R.?
  • 1983
    The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • 1986
    Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
  • 1989
    Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
  • 1990
    Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
  • 1999
    Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
  • 2000
    Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
  • 2006
    The social media site Twitter is founded.
  • 2009
    Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.

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