March 21 - Shhh

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This Day In History

1413

Henry V becomes King of England.

1871

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

1928

Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

1946

The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in American football since 1933.

1952

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

1965

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.

1999

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

Famous Birthdays

1685

Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)

1839

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)

1867

Florenz Ziegfeld, American theater producer (d. 1932)

1904

Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)

1946

Timothy Dalton, British actor

1948

Scott Fahlman, American computer scientist^*

1958

Gary Oldman, English actor

1962

Matthew Broderick, American actor

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