03-21-2006, 06:24 AM
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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 ~ World War II: British troops liberated Mandalay, Burma.
1960 ~ Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 ~ Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, was closed.
1965 ~ Rev. King led 3,200 people on the start of the third 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 to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 ~ Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were charged with murder in the kidnapping and killing of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl.
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