March 21, 1906 - John D. Rockefeller III, industrialist and philanthropist, is born.

March 21, 1939 - Kate Smith records her famous version of the song God Bless America.

March 21, 1942 - Plutonium is coined by Glenn Seaborg and Arthur Wahl as a name for the 94th element. Of course, at the time it didn't become common knowledge because it occurred in a secret report.

March 21, 1963 - Alcatraz Prison, located in San Francisco Bay, stops housing prisoners.

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March 21, 1965 - In an effort to support and draw attention to the voting rights of African-Americans, Martin Luther King, Jr. and more than 3,000 demonstrators began their march from Selma, Alabama. This third attempt to march together from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery was successful, with the help of U.S. Army and National Guard troops present to protect their safety.

March 21, 1967 - It is reported in the North Vietnamese press that Ho Chi Minh rejected an offer of peace presented by President Lyndon Johnson.

March 21, 1980 - America announces that all of its athletes will boycott the Moscow Olympics. The boycott was intended to send a message about the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.


 

"From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi." - Martin Luther King, Jr.