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'''March 21'''
'''March 21''' in history:
* 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.
* 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.
* 1804: The Napoleonic Code was promulgated in [[Directory:France|France]], replacing a collection of Roman law, local customs, and ecclesiastical law.
* 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.
[[Category:March]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]
