what on this day - 21 march
 The Parliament of Greece votes in favor of an international bailout deal |
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| 2012 | Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne reveals the 2012 British budget which cuts the top rate of income tax |
| 2011 | In Tripoli, the compound of leader Muammar Gaddafi is targeted with more bombing raids during the third night of international intervention in Libya |
| 2011 | The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts |
| 2010 | A suicide bomb attack in Geresh, Helmand Province, Afganistan kills ten people and injures 7 |
| 1999 | 71st
Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in
Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead
acting awards READ MORE KLIK JUDUL !!!!! |
| 1997 | Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov (Rus) |
| 1997 | Wrestlemania XIII |
| 1996 | "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1995 | New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295 |
| 1995 | New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM) |
| 1994 | 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter win |
| 1994 | Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History |
| 1994 | Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend |
| 1994 | Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals |
| 1993 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint |
| 1993 | South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl |
| 1992 | 2nd WLAF season begins |
| 1992 | Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi |
| 1991 | 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide |
| 1991 | Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome |
| 1991 | Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship |
| 1991 | U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq |
| 1990 | "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances |
| 1990 | "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1990 | "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1990 | Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president |
| 1989 | 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral |
| 1988 | 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams, Jr. |
| 1986 | 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02) |
| 1986 | Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million |
| 1985 | Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 1985 | Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South Africa, 19 killed |
| 1984 | Border scores 100* vs. WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings |
| 1984 | NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule |
| 1984 | Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon |
| 1984 | Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan |
| 1983 | Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled |
| 1982 | "Little Johnny Jones" opens and closes at Alvin Theater New York City |
| 1982 | Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard |
| 1982 | Movie "Annie" premieres |
| 1982 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot |
| 1979 | Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel |
| 1978 | Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training) |
| 1975 | Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years |
| 1974 | Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall |
| 1973 | Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1972 | U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote |
| 1971 | Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown |
| 1971 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2" |
| 1971 | WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69 |
| 1969 | John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton) |
| 1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City AL franchise |
| 1968 | Hill, Hawkins and Coghill's musical premieres in London |
| 1968 | Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases |
| 1968 | Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tome |
| 1966 | Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1965 | Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1965 | U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact |
| 1964 | 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83 |
| 1964 | Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1964 | UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0) |
| 1963 | Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed |
| 1963 | David Hendon and Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London |
| 1962 | A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds |
| 1962 | Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands for birth control |
| 1962 | Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control |
| 1962 | Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36 |
| 1961 | Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000) |
| 1961 | Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club |
| 1960 | Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC |
| 1959 | "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1959 | 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats West Virginia 71-70 |
| 1958 | 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1957 | Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in New York City |
| 1956 | 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win |
| 1955 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece |
| 1955 | Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums" |
| 1954 | KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, Montana (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | NBA record 106 fouls and 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) |
| 1952 | "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 94 performances |
| 1952 | Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths |
| 1952 | 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S. |
| 1952 | Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever |
| 1951 | 2,900,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea |
| 1951 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage |
| 1949 | WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, Florida (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio |
| 1947 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur |
| 1947 | President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States |
| 1947 | Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand vs. England at Christchurch |
| 1946 | Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933 |
| 1946 | U.N. set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) |
| 1945 | 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa |
| 1945 | During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany |
| 1945 | Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy |
| 1943 | Assassination attempt on Hitler fails |
| 1943 | British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia |
| 1942 | Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk |
| 1942 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| 1941 | Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1939 | Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland |
| 1937 | Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade |
| 1935 | Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris |
| 1935 | Persia officially renamed Iran |
| 1934 | Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 |
| 1934 | Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play |
| 1933 | Hitler, Goring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning and top army meet in Berlin |
| 1931 | KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland |
| 1931 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1931 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1927 | Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee |
| 1925 | Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens |
| 1925 | Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar |
| 1924 | 1st foreign language course broadcast on U.S. radio (WJZ, New York City) |
| 1924 | Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US |
| 1923 | U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition |
| 1922 | KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St. New York City |
| 1918 | During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive |
| 1917 | 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh |
| 1916 | JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies |
| 1914 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld |
| 1914 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott |
| 1913 | Flood in Ohio, kills 400 |
| 1909 | Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) |
| 1907 | U.S. invades Honduras |
| 1899 | British and French accord about West-Africa |
| 1891 | A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 20 years |
| 1890 | Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law |
| 1888 | Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London |
| 1885 | 2nd French government of Ferry resigns |
| 1874 | U.S. Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House |
| 1871 | Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa |
| 1871 | Otto von Bismarck elevated Furst |
| 1868 | 1st U.S. professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in New York City |
| 1866 | Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes |
| 1865 | Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman |
| 1864 | Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana |
| 1863 | Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon |
| 1860 | U.S. extradition treaty with Sweden |
| 1859 | 1st Zoological Society incorporates in Philadelphia |
| 1859 | Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh |
| 1859 | Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in U.S., incorporated |
| 1857 | Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die |
| 1851 | Yosemite Valley discovered in California |
| 1844 | Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) |
| 1843 | Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin and Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass |
| 1826 | Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna |
| 1824 | Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses |
| 1804 | French civil Code of Napoleon adopted |
| 1791 | Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in Revenue Cutter Service |
| 1790 | Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State |
| 1788 | Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana |
| 1788 | Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans |
| 1702 | Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament |
| 1697 | Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe |
| 1681 | 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London |
| 1610 | King James I addresses English House of Commons |
| 1492 | Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus |
| 1421 | Battle of Beauge-French beat British |
| 1349 | 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany |
