What happend on 21st March

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1928

Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

1919

The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.

1918

World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins

1871

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

1857

Earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.

1804

Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.

1801

The Battle of Alexandria was fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

1800

With the church leadership driven out of the Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.

1788

A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.

1556

In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.