Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
March 21
| 630 | Heraclius restores the True Cross, which he has recaptured from the Persians. | |
| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven recantations that same day. | |
| 1617 | Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) dies of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe. | |
| 1788 | Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire. | |
| 1806 | Lewis and Clark begin their trip home after an 8,000 mile trek of the Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast. | |
| 1865 | The Battle of Bentonville, N.C. ends, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop Union General William Sherman. | |
| 1851 | Emperor Tu Duc orders that Christian priests are to put to death. | |
| 1858 | British forces in India lift the siege of Lucknow, ending the Indian Mutiny. | |
| 1906 | Ohio passes a law that prohibits hazing by fraternities. | |
| 1908 | Frenchman Henri Farman carries a passenger in a bi-plane for the first time. | |
| 1910 | The U.S. Senate grants ex-President Teddy Roosevelt an annual pension of $10,000. | |
| 1918 | The Germans launch the 'Michael' offensive, better remembered as the First Battle of the Somme. | |
| 1928 | President Calvin Coolidge gives the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight. | |
| 1939 | Singer Kate Smith records "God Bless America" for Victor Records. | |
| 1941 | The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, falls to the British. | |
| 1951 | Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall reports that the U.S. military has doubled to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War. | |
| 1963 | Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, closes. | |
| 1965 | The United States launches Ranger 9, last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations. | |
| 1971 | Two U.S. platoons in Vietnam refuse their orders to advance. | |
| 1975 | As North Vietnamese forces advance, Hue and other northern towns in South Vietnam are evacuated. | |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter announces to the U.S. Olympic Team that they will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. | |
| 1984 | A Soviet submarine crashes into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan. | |
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Born on March 21 |
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| 1685 | Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer. | |
| 1806 | Benito Juarez, President of Mexico. | |
| 1869 | Albert Kahn, architect who originated modern factory design. | |
| 1869 | Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, creator of Ziegfeld Follies. | |
| 1885 | Raoul Lufbery, French-born American fighter pilot of World War I. | |
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