Historical Events on March 21
1935
Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
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The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
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Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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Famous Birthdays on March 21
- 1933
Michael Heseltine
- 1960
Ayrton Senna
- 1980
Ronaldinho
- 1985
Adrian Peterson
Famous Deaths on March 21
- 1556
Thomas Cranmer
- 1617
Pocahontas
- 1843
Guadalupe Victoria
- 2013
Chinua Achebe