March 21
Today in America's Present Past
1617 | Pocahontas died.
1691 | Leisler’s Rebellion ended.
1788 | A massive fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1800 | Politician William Blount died.
1813 | James Strang, self-proclaimed King of Beaver Island, Michigan, was born.
1856 | Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Black-American graduate of West Point, was born.
1866 | Congress: Authorized a national soldiers’ homes for the first time.
1868 | Civil Rights: The professional women’s club, Sorosis, was the first to be formed.
1869 | Architect Albert Kahn was born.
1874 | POTUS: Republican President Grant’s daughter wed in the White House.
1904 | Entrepreneur Forest Mars, Sr. was born.
1905 | Author Phyllis McGinley was born.
1906 | Entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller III was born.
1907 | U.S. sent troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover.
1915 | Engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor died.
1917 | Civil Rights: Loretta Walsh became the US Navy’s first female Petty Officer.
1937 | Civil Rights: Ponce massacre.
1945 | Japanese kamikaze attacks hit U.S. forces on Okinawa.
1946 | The United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College, in the Bronx, New York .
1947 | POTUS: Democrat President Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to sign a loyalty oath.
1949 | Journalist Samuel Sidney McClure died.
1951 | The 22nd Amendment was formally ratified (limiting the terms of President).
1962 | Actor Matthew Broderick was born.
1962 | Entertainer Rosie O’Donnell was born.
1963 | The prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay closed.
1965 | Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1984 | Cold War: A Soviet submarine (K-314) crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk.
2006 | Jack Dorsey sent out the first “Tweet.”