THE PAST HISTORY DATES THAT GOES WITH TODAY'S DATE

March 21, 1933
- Constructon of Dachau,
the first Nazi Germany
concentration camp, is
completed.

March 21, 1935
- Persia offically renamed
Iran.

March 21, 1960
- Apartheid:
Massacre in sharpeville,
South Africa: Police open
fire on a group of unarmed
South African demonstrators,
kiling 69 and wounding 180.

March 21, 1963
- Alcatraz Prison in
San Francisco Bay, a harsh
maximum security jail which
once housed gangster Al Capone,
closed.

March 21, 1965
- Martin Luther King Jr leads
3,200 people on the start of
the third and finally successfull
civil rights march from Selma to
Montgomery,Alabama.

March 21, 1975
- Ethiopia ends monarchy after
3000 years.

March 21, 1980
- US president Jimmy Carter
announces a United States
boycott of the 1980 Summer
Olympics in Moscow to protest
the Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan.