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  • Medieval painting from 1353 showing the citizens of Tournai (today in Belgium) burying victims of the Black Death

    Black Death

    1349 Black Death Massacre: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
  • 1804 Napoleonic Code is adopted in France, stressing clearly written and accessible law
  • Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley with Kalulu who he later adopted

    Henry Morton Stanley's Expedition to Africa

    1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
  • 1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
  • 2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
  • 2024 Elon Musk's Neuralink company posts a video of a patient playing chess online using a brain implant [1]
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  • 1940 "Rebecca" based on the book by Daphne du Maurier, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine premieres in Miami, Florida (Oscar - Best Picture 1941)
  • 1952 20,000 people attempt to attend the first-ever rock & roll concert when Alan Freed presents "The Moondog Coronation Ball" at the old 12,000-seat Cleveland Arena; performers include Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers, Tiny Grimes and the Rocking Highlanders, The Dominoes, and Varetta Dillard
  • 1984 NFL owners pass the infamous anti-celebration rule

European Space Agency reveals new data indicating that the universe is 13.82 billion years old

March 21, 2013

  • Taizu

    927 AD - 976 AD

  • Henry Ossian Flipper

    1856 - 1940

  • Albert Kahn

    1869 - 1942

  • Sergey Lavrov

    75 Years Old

  • Jair Bolsonaro

    70 Years Old
More Birthdays on March 21

  • Gary Oldman

    67 Years Old

  • Matthew Broderick

    63 Years Old

  • Rosie O'Donnell

    63 Years Old

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    1839 - 1881

  • Ayrton Senna

    1960 - 1994

  • Ingrid Kristiansen

    69 Years Old

  • Ronaldinho

    45 Years Old

  • Antoine Griezmann

    34 Years Old

Yogi the bear becomes the first creature ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military during testing of ejection seats

March 21, 1962

  • 1874 Ulysses S. 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
  • 1941 American Actress Hattie McDaniel (45) weds real estate salesman James Lloyd Crawford; divorced 1945
  • An artist's impression of what Eleanor could have looked like

    The Most Expensive Divorce in History

    1152 In one of the most expensive divorces in history, French King Louis VII is granted an annulment from Eleanor of Aquitaine on the grounds of consanguinity (being from the same kinship as another person)
  • 1975 American country singer Tammy Wynette (33) divorces American country singer-songwriter George Jones (43), after 6 years of marriage
  • 2008 Second wife Marsha Garces divorces comedian Robin Williams (56) after nearly 19 years of marriage due to irreconcilable differences
More March 21 Weddings

  • Pocahontas

    - 1617

  • Guadalupe Victoria

    1786 - 1843

  • Frederick Winslow Taylor

    1856 - 1915

  • Chinua Achebe

    1930 - 2013

  • Andrew Grove

    1936 - 2016

  • George Foreman

    1949 - 2025
More March 21 Deaths
  • An artist's impression of what Eleanor could have looked like

    The Most Expensive Divorce in History

    Beautiful and rich, Eleanor of Aquitaine had one fault according to the King of France: she had not produced a son. So on this day they were divorced. March 21, 1152
  • The last prisoners walk down Broadway as Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes

    Closure of Alcatraz

    The last prisoners walk down Broadway as Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes March 21, 1963
  • Set alight by retreating Iraqi troops, Kuwaiti oil fires burnt long after the Gulf War finished

    Kuwaiti Oil Fires

    Set alight by retreating Iraqi troops, Kuwaiti oil fires burnt long after the Gulf War finished March 21, 1991
  • The Emerald Buddha of Thailand, considered the palladium of the nation and one of its most sacred sites

    Weekly Quiz for March 16 - 22

    Who discovered the electric battery this week in 1800? Which country holds the Emerald Buddha sacred? What island did Napoleon escape from in 1815?
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  • An artist's impression of Stanley meeting Livingstone

    Dr Livingstone, I Presume?

    March 19, 1813
  • A Beadle watches over Burlington Arcade. Photo: Luke J Spencer

    Welcome Shoppers, But No Whistling Please

    March 20, 1819
  • Manuel Noriega's mug shot in 1990

    A First Lady Goes Shoplifting

    March 20, 1992
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and one of the hundreds of quotations attributed to him

    Have You Heard The One About Johann Goethe?

    March 22, 1832
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