Daily Calendar for March 21st, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Independence Day (Namibia)

• International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

1610s

• Died 1617: Pocahontas (aka Rebecca Rolfe, funeral occurred on this date)

1680s

• Born 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach (composer; Old Style date)

1790s

• 1790: Thomas Jefferson reported to President Washington in NY as the new Secretary of State

1830s

• Born 1839: Modest Mussorgsky (composer)

1860s

• 1868: Jane Croly organized first club for professional women, Sorosis, in New York City

• Born 1869: Florenz Ziegfeld (theatrical producer)

1870s

• 1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition into Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone150 Years Ago

1910s

• Died 1915: Frederick Winslow Taylor ("father of scientific management")

• 1918: World War I Second Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest in history, began in France

1920s

• Born 1929: Jules Bergman (newsman)

• Born 1929: James Coco (actor)

1940s

• 1946: United Nations established temporary headquarters in New York City, at Hunter College

• Born 1946: Timothy Dalton (actor)

1950s

• 1952: DJ Alan Freed hosted the first rock-n-roll concert, Cleveland, Ohio. Reportedly, 25,000 people showed up, though only 10,000 seats were available

• Born 1958: Gary Oldman (actor)

1960s

• 1960: Sharpeville Massacre took place in S. Africa when blacks besieged Johannesburg police station protesting law requiring all blacks to carry papers

• Born 1960: Ayrton Senna (race car driver)

• Born 1962: Rosie O'Donnell (comedienne & actress)

• Born 1962: Matthew Broderick (actor)

• 1963: The federal prison on Alcatraz Island, California, closed after 29 years of operation

• 1965: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of civil rights demonstrators on a 50+ mile walk from Selma to Montgomery, AL, demanding voting rights for African Americans

• 1967: Order of Canada, to honor outstanding contributions to society and country, instituted

• 1968: "Royals" was the winning name for the new Kansas City baseball team

1970s

• 1970: The Guess Who's "American Woman" was released as a single

1980s

• 1984: Soviet sub collided with USS Kitty Hawk

• 1986: U.S. figure skater Debi Thomas became the first African American woman to win the world's championship, Geneva, Switzerland

• 1989: After 33 years, Dick Clark announced he was stepping down as host of American Bandstand

1990s

• Died 1994: Macdonald Carey (actor)

• 1994: Former NBA star Michael Jordan was dropped from the White Sox major league baseball roster and sent to minor league spring training camp

2000s

• Died 2002: Rabbi Israel Miller (leader of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)

• Died 2002: Herman Talmadge (governor & U.S. senator)

• Died 2004: Ludmilla Tcherina (French-artist & ballet star)

• Died 2004: Johnny Bristol (producer, songwriter, & singer)

• Died 2005: Barney Martin (actor)

• Died 2006: Bernard Lacoste (head of fashion company best known for its crocodile-crested polo shirts)

2010s

• Died 2014: James Rebhorn (actor)

• 2015: Rajveer Meena recited 70,000 decimal places of pi