11 History Lessons + 3 Births & 5 Deaths for March 21, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1556 – Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for violating heresy laws revised under the Roman Catholic queen Mary I, known as Bloody Mary.
- 1788 – The Great Fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
- 1857 – An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.
- 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa to locate missing explorer David Livingstone.
- 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German spring offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
- 1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
- 1963 – Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners.
- 1965 – American civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr., began a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States was boycotting the Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
- 2006 – Jack Dorsey sends the world’s first Twitter message, or tweet.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1958 – Gary Oldman, English actor, filmmaker, and musician (67).
- 1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor (63).
- 1990 – Jace Norman, American actor (25).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1617 – Pocahontas, American Indian princess and daughter of Powhatan (b. 1596).
- 1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican independence leader, general and 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786).
- 1891 – Joseph E. Johnston, American military officer (senior officer in Confederate Army and United States Army) (b. 1807).
- 1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management (b. 1856).
- 2005 – Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923).
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