03-21-2008, 12:22 PM
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Location: Maryland
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March 21st
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway Impresario.
1945 ~ UK Troops liberated Mandalay, Burma.
1960 ~ Police fired on demonsTraTors in Sharpeville, SouTh Africa, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 ~ The federal peniTenTiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, AlcaTraz, was closed.
1965 ~ Rev. King led 3,200 people on The sTarT of a civil righTs march from Selma To MonTgomery, Alabama.
1980 ~ PresidenT CarTer announced a U.S. boycoTT of The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow To proTesT The SovieT Invasion of AfghanisTan.
1999 ~ BerTrand Piccard and Brian Jones became The firsT men To circumnavigaTe The EarTh in a hoT air balloon.
2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme CourT ruled The governmenT lacked auThoriTy To regulaTe Tobacco as an addicTive drug.
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