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| March 21st |
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| About March 21st is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. March 21st is World Poetry Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and World Down Syndrome Day. Births 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, organist 1946 - Timothy Dalton, actor (Licence to Kill) 1949 - Eddie Money, guitarist, singer ("Two Tickets To Paradise") 1958 - Gary Oldman, actor, writer, director (Dracula, JFK) 1962 - Kathy Greenwood, comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyways?) 1962 - Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) 1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedian, actress, television personality 1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler 1978 - Kevin Federline, rapper, dancer, model, actor 1980 - Ronaldinho Gaúcho, professional soccer player 1985 - Adrian Peterson, professional football running back Deaths 1617 - Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, assisted Jamestown settlers 1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico 1991 - Leo Fender, founded Fender Musical Instruments 2002 - Herman Talmadge, U.S. Senator (Georgia) 2005 - Barney Martin, actor (Seinfeld) 2005 - Bobby Short, cabaret singer, pianist Events 1788 - Most of New Orleans is destroyed after a fire devastates the city. 1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia is incorporated, becoming the first in the United States. 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity. 1913 - Great Dayton Flood strikes Dayton, Ohio killing 360 residents and destroying 20,000 homes. 1928 - Charles Lindbergh receives the Medal of Honor for completing the first trans-Atlantic flight. 1952 - The first rock ‘n roll concert is held in Cleveland, Ohio. 1963 - Alcatraz, the heavily guarded federal prison located on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. 1965 - NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the final of a series of unmanned lunar space probes. 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads a march of 3,200 people on a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama . 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued Mayor Joseph Alioto of by San Francisco, California . 1980 - A boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow by the United States is announced by President Jimmy Carter to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. 1980 - The infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant on the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, leading to the popular catchphrase "Who Shot JR?" 1989 - Sports Illustrated reports of Cincinnati Red Pete Rose gambling on baseball. 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become finish circling Earth in a hot air balloon, becoming the first to do so. |
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