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March 21 in History
Historical Events on March 21
1814
Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1871
Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1918
World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1945
World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1960
Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
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.
1980
US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
2000
Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
2006
The social media site Twitter is founded.
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Famous Birthdays on March 21
1933
Michael Heseltine
1960
Ayrton Senna
1980
Ronaldinho
1985
Adrian Peterson
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Famous Deaths on March 21
1556
Thomas Cranmer
1617
Pocahontas
1843
Guadalupe Victoria
2013
Chinua Achebe
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