On this day ( 21. March )
Imre Bertalan
1685: Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
1790: Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.
1857: An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.
1918: During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive.
1934: A fire destroyed Hakodate, Japan, killing about 1,500.
1941: The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, fell to the British.
1944: Timothy Dalton was born.
1960: About 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired upon demonstrators.
1962: Rosie O'Donnell was born.
1963: Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed.
1965: The U.S. launched Ranger 9. It was the last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations.
1965: More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.
1980: On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.
1980: Ronaldinho was born.
1984: A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
1985: Police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings. At least 21 demonstrators were killed.
1990: Namibia became independent of South Africa.
1995: Tokyo police raided the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo in search of evidence to link the cult to the Sarin gas released on five Tokyo subway trains.
2001: Nintendo released Game Boy Advance.
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