This Day in History for 21st March

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 186

630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 - Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1610 - King James I addresses English House of Commons
1681 - 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 - Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1788 - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State
1791 - Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1835 - Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1844 - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
1863 - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1871 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince)
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1885 - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1888 - Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London
1890 - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1899 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1907 - US invades Honduras
1909 - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1913 - -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1914 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1916 - JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1917 - 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1918 - -28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive
1921 - Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 - KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1923 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 - 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1924 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1927 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1931 - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1933 - Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
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
1935 - Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1937 - Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1939 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 - British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
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
1946 - Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
33rd US President Harry Truman 1947 - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1947 - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1948 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1949 - WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1952 - "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs
1952 - -22] Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths
1952 - 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1953 - NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 - KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 - Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 - 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win
Playwright Tennessee Williams 1957 - Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in NYC
1958 - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1959 - 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
1960 - Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1961 - Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
1961 - Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 208

1466 - French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53). Died 1553
1527 - Hermann Finck, composer
1609 - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
1624 - Francois Roberday, composer
1642 - Georg Schmezer, composer
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1713 - Francis Lewis, signer (Decl of Ind)
1716 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
1763 - Jean Paul, writer
1765 - Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685) 1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1835 - Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
1836 - Jesus Monasterio, composer
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Karevo, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS]
1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1856 - Henry Ossian Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877
1863 - Hugo Kaun, composer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1866 - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1880 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Hermann Sandby, composer
1882 - Gilbert M Anderson, [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR
1883 - Jules van Nuffel, composer
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1887 - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1893 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1901 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1901 - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Carl Jaffe, Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement)
1902 - Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues)
1902 - William Downie Forrest, journalist
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (1906) 1906 - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1910 - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1912 - Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
1913 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
1914 - Paul Tortelier, composer
1917 - Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994)
1918 - Joe Carveth, NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons)
1919 - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist
1919 - Lois Collier, SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, composer [or Apr 21]
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Antony Hopkins, composer
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach California, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1923 - Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show)
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
1924 - Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
1925 - John E Grotberg, (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86)
1925 - Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1926 - Virginia Weidler, Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway)
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1928 - Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1928 - Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)
1929 - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1931 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch)
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1933 - Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
1934 - Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie), (d. 2012)
1934 - Lister Carney, Bellaire Oh, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1935 - Brian Clough, soccer manager
1935 - Hubert Fichte, writer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1874 - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
2009 - Star of Die Hard film Bruce Willis (52) weds model and actress Emma Heming (29) in Turks and Caicos Islands
2009 - British songbird who soared to the top of the charts with her hit "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield (27) weds California businessman Matthew Robinson at Church Estate Vineyard's in Malibu, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 99 of 99

1063 - Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1538 - Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1652 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55
1654 - Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51
1656 - Armagh James Ussher, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (claimed world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1734 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1768 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1793 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1810 - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1844 - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1857 - Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
1863 - Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1894 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1916 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
Gangster Al Capone (1921) 1921 - "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1934 - Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55
1934 - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1936 - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
1938 - Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
1939 - Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39
1941 - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1945 - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
1945 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1952 - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
1954 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Muriel Aked, dies at 67
1958 - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
1969 - Gerhart Fritsch, writer, dies at 44
1970 - Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
1973 - Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
1974 - Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1975 - Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64
1975 - Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1980 - Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
1982 - Harry H Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77
1985 - Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78
1986 - August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
1987 - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
1989 - Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
1991 - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1992 - John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78
1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
1994 - Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
1994 - Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89
1994 - Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
1995 - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
1995 - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
1995 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
1996 - Eric Brand, diplomat, dies at 73
1996 - Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
2007 - Drew Hayes, American writer & graphic artist (b. 1969)
2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2009 - Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2010 - Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (b. 1919)
2011 - Loleatta Holloway, American singer (b. 1946)
2011 - Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
2011 - Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
2011 - Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)