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− | '''March 21''' | + | '''March 21''' in history: |
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| + | * 1960: Police in South Africa opened fire on a large crowd of black Africans demonstrating in a township near Johannesburg; at least 67 people died in what is called the Sharpeville Massacre. |
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| + | * 1918: German general Erich Ludendorff led shock troops along a 60-mi (100-km) front and rolled back the Allies as much as 40 mi (65 km) to begin the Second Battle of the Somme during World War I. |
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| + | * 1804: The Napoleonic Code was promulgated in [[Directory:France|France]], replacing a collection of Roman law, local customs, and ecclesiastical law. |
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| + | * 1617: The American Indian princess Pocahontas, who befriended the English colony at Jamestown, [[Directory:Virginia|Virginia]], supposedly saved the life of Capt. John Smith, and became the wife of John Rolfe, died in London. |
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| + | [[Category:March]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |