What happend on 21st March

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1970

Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.

1965

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

1965

Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

1964

In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough).

1963

Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.

1960

Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180

1952

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio

1945

World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma

1940

Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France

1935

Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.