March 21 is National Crunchy Taco Day
Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), German composer and instrumentalist of the Baroque period. His music is revered for its depth, technique, and beauty.
1788 – A fire in New Orleans left most of the town in ruins. It destroyed 856 of the 1100 structures. Because the fire was on Good Friday, priests refused to allow church bells to be rung as a fire alarm. After six years of rebuilding, on December 8, 1794, another 212 buildings were destroyed in another fire.
Publication of Federalist Paper #73: The Provision For The Support of the Executive, and the Veto Power written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
From www.gradesaver.com
This paper illustrates the principle of checks and balances on which much of the Constitution is based. The founders believed it was necessary to distribute power among multiple branches of government and ensure that none of these branches became too powerful. This paper focuses in particular on limiting the power of the legislature. Hamilton claims that, in republican societies, the legislative branch of government is always the most powerful since it directly represents the voice of the people. In order to prevent this branch from completely monopolizing the government, the other branches must have means of constitutional “self-defense.”
The Butler Act passed on March 21, 1925. It prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee public schools. The law was subsequently challenged in 1925 in the famous Scopes trial.
1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was completed. It was built about 10 miles northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany to house political prisoners, Jews, and foreign nationals. There were 32,000 documented deaths at Dachau and thousands that were undocumented. Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and emigrants were sent to Dachau after the 1935 passage of the Nuremberg Laws which institutionalized racial discrimination. Dachau was officially liberated by the U.S. Army on 29 April, 1945.
March 21, 1947, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closed in 1963.
1965 – More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.
March 21, 2006 – Twitter was founded.