hey.. in the morning sherry asked about wad historic events happened on 14 nov... i go internet search and come out qutie a lot.. haha.. then i search 21 march.. and here's the result:

Events

• 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
• 1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
• 1800 - Pius VII becomes Pope
• 1804 - Code Napoléon adopted as French civil law
• 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins
• 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
• 1935 - Persia is renamed Iran
• 1940 - Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
• 1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
• 1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
• 1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
• 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
• 1980 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
• 1985 -Canadian wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen begins his round the world journey in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• 1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations that tie Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
• 1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
• 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
• 2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
• 2004 - In Malaysia, The 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.

Holidays and observances

• South Africa: Human Rights Day
• Traditional date of vernal equinox, used for reckoning Easter. The real equinox usually occurs one day earlier.
• The third day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
• New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox
• New Year of the Bahá'í Calendar
• Bahá'í Faith: Naw-Rúz: New Year (Norouz)
• Bahá'í Faith - End of the fast (end of the 19 day sunrise to sunset fast)
• Ostara - Neopagan festival of Ostara
• World Day Of Sleep- by World Health Organization
• World Poetry Day - by Unesco
• International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - by United Nations