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March 21
1556 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1685 - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1804 - The French Civil Code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
1871 - Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1935 - Persia officially changed its name to Iran.
1945 - During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
1952 - The Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena.
1960 - Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. Twenty-five years later, a march marking the anniversary of this event, was also disrupted by police fire.
1963 - Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dunn v. Blumstein that states may not require at least a year's residency for voting eligibility.
1990 - Namibia became an independent nation after 75 years as a colony of South Africa.
1997 - President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.
2006 - The social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republicans questioned the science behind his climate-change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
2010 - The House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
2016 - Laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.
2017 - At his Senate confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared he’d made no promises to President Donald Trump or anyone else about how he would vote on abortion or other issues.
2019 - President Donald Trump abruptly declared that the U.S. would recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy.
2020 - During a White House briefing, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, while Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evidence was “anecdotal.”
2022 - A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a mountainous area of southern China, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. (All 123 passengers and nine crew members would later be confirmed dead.)
Birthdays
20 - Forrest Wheeler (actor)
24 - Jace Norman (actor)
25 - Lexi DiBenedetto (actress)
27 - TINI (singer)
28 - Chase Sui Wonders (actress)
30 - Jasmin Savoy Brown (actress)
32 - Karolina Pliskova (tennis player)
34 - Grayson Waller (professional wrestler)
35 - Rochelle Humes (singer)
38 - Scott Eastwood (actor)
39 - Sonequa Martin-Green (actress)
50 - Laura Allen (actress)
59 - Cynthia Geary (actress)
62 - Rosie O'Donnell (actress/TV host)
62 - Matthew Broderick (actor)
63 - Kassie Depaiva (actress)
66 - Gary Oldman (actor)
66 - Sabrina LeBeauf (actress)
73 - Russell Thompkins Jr. (singer)
78 - Timothy Dalton (actor)
80 - Marie-Christine Barrault (actress)
85 - Kathleen Widdoes (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 21
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington. Washington was the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
1953 - The Boston Celtics beat Syracuse Nationals (111-105) in four overtimes to eliminate them from the Eastern Division Semifinals. A record 106 fouls were called and a record 12 players fouled out.
1959 - California defeats West Virginia 71-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1964 - UCLA defeats Duke 98-83 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1968 - The new American League franchise in Kansas City, MO, took the nickname Royals.
1970 - UCLA defeats Jacksonville 80-69 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1973 - Frank Mohovlich (Montreal Canadiens) became the 5th NHL player to score 500 career goals.
1984 - NFL owners pass its infamous "anti-celebration" rule.
1984 - Arthur Ashe is named to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
1994 - Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals.
2004 - The NHL suspended Calgary Flames coach-general manager Darryl Sutter and forward Krzysztof Oliwa. Sutter was suspended for two games for player selection and team conduct in the final 2.5 seconds of the game. Oliwa was suspended for his conduct after being given a penalty for physical abuse of officials. The Flames lost to the Nashville Predators 3-1.
2012 - Meting out unprecedented punishment for a bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the team’s former defensive coordinator; Commissioner Roger Goodell fined the Saints $500,000 and took away two draft picks.
2019 - Ichiro Suzuki finishes his career with a record 4,367 base hits (MLB and NPB combined) as the Seattle Mariners defeat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 in Tokyo, Japan.
1556 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1685 - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1804 - The French Civil Code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
1871 - Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1935 - Persia officially changed its name to Iran.
1945 - During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
1952 - The Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena.
1960 - Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. Twenty-five years later, a march marking the anniversary of this event, was also disrupted by police fire.
1963 - Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dunn v. Blumstein that states may not require at least a year's residency for voting eligibility.
1990 - Namibia became an independent nation after 75 years as a colony of South Africa.
1997 - President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.
2006 - The social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republicans questioned the science behind his climate-change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
2010 - The House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
2016 - Laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.
2017 - At his Senate confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared he’d made no promises to President Donald Trump or anyone else about how he would vote on abortion or other issues.
2019 - President Donald Trump abruptly declared that the U.S. would recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy.
2020 - During a White House briefing, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, while Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evidence was “anecdotal.”
2022 - A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a mountainous area of southern China, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. (All 123 passengers and nine crew members would later be confirmed dead.)
Birthdays
20 - Forrest Wheeler (actor)
24 - Jace Norman (actor)
25 - Lexi DiBenedetto (actress)
27 - TINI (singer)
28 - Chase Sui Wonders (actress)
30 - Jasmin Savoy Brown (actress)
32 - Karolina Pliskova (tennis player)
34 - Grayson Waller (professional wrestler)
35 - Rochelle Humes (singer)
38 - Scott Eastwood (actor)
39 - Sonequa Martin-Green (actress)
50 - Laura Allen (actress)
59 - Cynthia Geary (actress)
62 - Rosie O'Donnell (actress/TV host)
62 - Matthew Broderick (actor)
63 - Kassie Depaiva (actress)
66 - Gary Oldman (actor)
66 - Sabrina LeBeauf (actress)
73 - Russell Thompkins Jr. (singer)
78 - Timothy Dalton (actor)
80 - Marie-Christine Barrault (actress)
85 - Kathleen Widdoes (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 21
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington. Washington was the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
1953 - The Boston Celtics beat Syracuse Nationals (111-105) in four overtimes to eliminate them from the Eastern Division Semifinals. A record 106 fouls were called and a record 12 players fouled out.
1959 - California defeats West Virginia 71-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1964 - UCLA defeats Duke 98-83 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1968 - The new American League franchise in Kansas City, MO, took the nickname Royals.
1970 - UCLA defeats Jacksonville 80-69 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1973 - Frank Mohovlich (Montreal Canadiens) became the 5th NHL player to score 500 career goals.
1984 - NFL owners pass its infamous "anti-celebration" rule.
1984 - Arthur Ashe is named to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
1994 - Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals.
2004 - The NHL suspended Calgary Flames coach-general manager Darryl Sutter and forward Krzysztof Oliwa. Sutter was suspended for two games for player selection and team conduct in the final 2.5 seconds of the game. Oliwa was suspended for his conduct after being given a penalty for physical abuse of officials. The Flames lost to the Nashville Predators 3-1.
2012 - Meting out unprecedented punishment for a bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the team’s former defensive coordinator; Commissioner Roger Goodell fined the Saints $500,000 and took away two draft picks.
2019 - Ichiro Suzuki finishes his career with a record 4,367 base hits (MLB and NPB combined) as the Seattle Mariners defeat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 in Tokyo, Japan.