On This Day - March 21 1349 - 3,000 Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany. 1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed. 1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state. 1851 - Yosemite Valley was discovered in California. 1857 - An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000. 1859 - In Philadelphia, the first Zoological Society was incorporated. 1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa. 1910 - The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000. 1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight. 1934 - A fire destroyed Hakodate, Japan, killing about 1,500. 1935 - Incubator ambulance service began in Chicago, IL. 1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington. Washington was the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1960 - About 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired upon demonstrators. 1963 - Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed. 1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. 1980 - On the TV show Dallas, J.R. Ewing was shot. 1990 - Australian businessman Alan Bond sold Van Goghs Irises to the Gerry Museum. Bond had purchased the painting for $53.9 million in 1987. 1994 - Steven Spielberg won his first Oscars. They were for best picture and best director for Schindlers List. 2002 - In Paris, an 1825 print by French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce was sold for $443,220. The print, of a man leading a horse, was the earliest recorded image taken by photographic means.
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