All Events

Historical Events on March 21

  • Napoleonic Wars

    1814

    Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.

  • Otto von Bismarck

    1871

    Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.

  • World War I

    1918

    World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.

  • World War II

    1945

    World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.

  • Apartheid

    1960

    Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    1965

    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.

  • Jimmy Carter

    1980

    US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

  • Pope John Paul II

    2000

    Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.

  • Social media

    2006

    The social media site Twitter is founded.

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