History for March 21

History for March 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - Composer, Albert Khan 1869 - Architect, Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor


Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor, Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress, Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")


1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.


1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.


1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa.


1918 - During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive.


1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.


1966 - In New York, demolition work began to clear thirteen square blocks for the construction of the original World Trade Center.


1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.


1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.