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 // Birthday Project // 1685 In 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born. Bach was born in Germany. He is a famous composer.
 * Andrew Weaver **

1778 On March 21, 1778, in what became known as the “Massacre at Hancock’s Bridge,” at least 20 members of the militia lost their lives, some after attempting to surrender. The Loyalist reputedly exclaimed, “Spare no one! Give no quarter!” as they stormed the house of Judge William Hancock, a loyalist whose house the Patriots had commandeered, while the Patriot militia slept.

1943 March 21, 1943 On this day, the second military conspiracy plan to assassinate Hitler in a week fails to come off. On March 21, on Heroes' Memorial Day Tresckow selected Col. Freiherr von Gersdorff to act as a suicide bomber at the Zeughaus Museum in Berlin, where Hitler was to attend the annual memorial dedication. With a bomb planted in each of his two coat pockets, Gersdorff was to sidle up to Hitler as he reviewed the memorials and ignite the bombs, taking the dictator out-along with himself and everyone in the immediate vicinity.

1962 In 1962 Rosie O’Donnell was born. She is a comedienne. She played in the movies League of Their Own”, “Flinstones”, and “Rosie”.

1963 March 21, 1963, Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners. At its peak period of use in 1950s, “The Rock, or “Americans Devil Island” housed over 200 inmates at the maximum-security facility. Alcatraz remains an icon of the American prisons for its harsh conditions and record for being inescapable.

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1983 March 21, 1983, the last episode of the long-running TV series Little House on the Prairie airs on this day in 1983. The series, based on the children’s book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Premiered in 1974. The show was one of television’s 25 most highly rated shows for seven of its nine seasons.

1995

The weather in Hagerstown on March 21, 1995 was 56.9 Degrees. It was cloudy. It was also very windy.

1995 was Super Bowl XXIX. It was the 49 ers against Chargers. The 49ers won won 49-26.

In 1995 the president was Bill Clinton. He was President from 1993-2001. Al Gore was the vice President at the time.

The USA national soccer team record was 6-6-2 for 1995. They played a total of 14 games. They didn’t have a winning season.

U.S.A. National Soccer Team

President Jimmy Carter informs a group of U.S. athletes that, in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the United States will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It marked the first and only time that the United States has boycotted the Olympics.

 Union General Edwin Vose Sumner dies while awaiting reassignment to the far West. His death came months after he led his corps at the Battle of Antietam. Born in Boston in 1793, Sumner joined the army in 1819. He had already spent more than a quarter of a century in the military when he fought in the Mexican War, traveling down the Santa Fe Trail with Stephen Watts Kearney to capture New Mexico. 



On March 21, 1918, near the Somme River in France, the German army launches its first major offensive on the Western Front in two years.At the beginning of 1918, Germany’s position on the battlefields of Europe looked extremely strong. German armies occupied virtually all of Belgium and much of northern France. With Romania, Russia and Serbia out of the war by the end of 1917, conflict in the east was drawing to a close, leaving the Central Powers free to focus on combating the British and French in the west. Indeed, by March 21, 1918, Russia’s exit had allowed Germany to shift no fewer than 44 divisions of men to the Western Front.

Gilbert M. Anderson, the first western movie star, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Better known as "Broncho Billy," the name of the western hero he played in over 300 short films, Anderson was the first western movie star. Furthermore, he played several small parts in one of the first movies ever made, //The Great Train Robbery//.

March 21, 1804- After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the "Napoleonic Code." The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.

NBA Championship for 1995 was Detroit. They played Portland. The MVP was Magic Johnson. 

World Series winner for 1995 was Cincinnati. They won the first four games. They played Oakland.

Home Alone was a popular movie in 1995. It brought in $285,016,000. It was the top money making movie in 1995.

In 1960 on March 21, in the black township of Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 people and wounding 180 in a hail of submachine-gun fire. The demonstrators were protesting against the South African government's restriction of nonwhite travel. In the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre, protests broke out in Cape Town, and more than 10,000 people were arrested before government troops restored order.

March 21, 1932 a Series of tornadoes hits Southeast U.S. A storm system arising in the Gulf of Mexico spawns a devastating series of tornadoes that kills more than 350 people across the Southeast over two days. Thousands were seriously injured and many were left homeless by this deadly rash of twisters. 