March 21

Today in History
• 1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
• 1413 - Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, becomes King Henry V
• 1421 - Battle of Beauge-French beat British
• 1788 - Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
• 1804 - Napoleonic Code adopted in France
• 1824 - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
• 1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
• 1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Afghanistan Day
• Education Freedom Day
• Egypt Mother's Day
• Namibia Independence Day
• Naw-Ruz (Baha'i New Year)
• Nowruz Bayram
• South Africa Human Rights Day
• World Poetry Day

Birthdays
• 0927 - Taizu, Founder and 1st Emperor of the Song Dynasty
• 1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
• 1521 - Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony
• 1609 - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland, 1648-68
• 1713 - Francis Lewis, signer, Declaration of Independence
• 1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
• 1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, president of Mexico
• 1856 - Henry Ossian Flipper, soldier, and first former slave to graduate from West Point