please enjoy your travel through time on the 21st day of March, with interesting events, births & deaths on this day in history
21st March History Timeline
1700s / the 18th century on the 21st of March
1788 : Great New Orleans Fire destroyed 856 of 1,100 structures in New Orleans in Louisiana, USA.
1800s / the 19th century on the 21st of March
1804 : Napoléonic Code was adopted as French civil law.
1871: Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone, one of England’s most intrepid explorers that increased Africa’s fame. In 1865, Livingstone set out on a planned two-year expedition to find the source of the Nile River, and also wanted to help bring about the abolition of the slave trade, which was devastating Africa’s population.
1900s / the 20th century on the 21st of March
1928 : Charles Lindbergh was presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1950 : Roger Hodgson the English musician was born Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He is best known as the former lead singer of Supertamp. Roger composed and sang most of Supertramp’s hits such as Dreamer, It’s Raining Again, Breakfast in America, Take the Long Way Home, The Logical Song, and Give a Little Bit.
1952 : 1st rock & roll concert in the world : Moondog Coronation Ball, was presented by disc jockey Alan Freed in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1960 : Ayrton Senna the Brazilian race car driver was born Ayrton Senna da Silva in São Paulo, Brazil. He died in 1994 aged 34, after fatal injuries from an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix, on 1 May 1994.
1963 : Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closed.
1965 : NASA launched Ranger 9, the last of a series of their unmanned lunar space probes.
1999 : Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2000s / the21st century on the 21st of March
2006 : Twitter was founded. The microblogging and social networking service originated in New York, USA.
Today in History for March 21st by Associated Press
Video features : Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. began his march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurred, wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams was released from prison, and Musician Johann Bach born…
We hope you enjoyed your travel through time on the 21st day of March
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