03-21-2005, 06:08 AM
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March 21st
1556 ~ In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1945 ~ World War II: British troops liberated Mandalay, Burma.
1960 ~ Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police opened fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 ~ Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, was closed.
1980 ~ President Jimmy Carter announced a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 ~ On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
1999 ~ Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 ~ In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects were charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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