On This Day in U S Political History
On March 21st in 1617 Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) died of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe. As Pocahontas and John Rolfe prepared to sail back to Virginia, she died reportedly from the wet English winter. She was buried at the parish church of St. George in Gravesend, England.
On March 21st in 1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were burned.
On March 21st in 1790 Thomas Jefferson at the age of 46 reported to President Washington in New York as the new US Secretary of state.
On March 21st in 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire became the first commissioned officer of the US Revenue Cutter Service.
On March 21st in 1806 Lewis and Clark began their trip home after an 8,000 mile trek of the Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast.
On March 21st in 1851 Yosemite Valley was "discovered" by non-natives in California. The 58 men of the Mariposa Battalion under Major James D. Savage were the first whites to enter Yosemite Valley. Their first view of the valley was from the plateau later named Mount Beatitude. They expelled Chief Tenaya and his band of Ahwahneechee Indians. Dr. Bunnell, a physician in the battalion, named the valley Yosemite to honor the local Indians. He did not realize that the word “yohemeti” meant “some of them are killers” and was an insult against the valley people.
On March 21st in 1865 The Battle of Bentonville, N.C. ended. Union General William Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, 'a hell of a damn fool.' At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and disobedience of orders proved Sherman's point.
On March 21st in 1866 The US Congress authorized national soldiers' homes.
On March 21st in 1906 Ohio passed a law that prohibited hazing by fraternities.
On March 21st in 1907 US Marines arrived in Honduras to protect American lives and interests in the wake of political violence.
On March 21st in 1910 The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a pension of $10,000 yearly.
On March 21st in 1921 Herbert Hoover, U.S. Secretary of Commerce opposed all trade with Russia.
On March 21st in 1925 Tennessee passed an anti-evolution law, which prohibited the teaching of evolution.
On March 21st in 1928 President Coolidge gave the US Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh. The Medal of Honor was not always awarded for "courage above and beyond" the call of duty.
On March 21st in 1939 Singer Kate Smith recorded “God Bless America” for Victor Records. She introduced the song on her radio program in 1938.
On March 21st in 1945 During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
On March 21st in 1946 The United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in New York City.
On March 21st in 1947 President Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to swear allegiance to the United States.
On March 21st in 1951 Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall reports that the U.S. military has doubled to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War.
On March 21st in 1957 President Eisenhower and British PM Harold Macmillan began a four-day conference in Bermuda.
On March 21st in 1957 Vice President Nixon returned to the U.S. after spending three weeks on a tour of Africa.
On March 21st in 1960 California state officials dumped radioactive waste from civilian installations into the ocean about 50 miles off of San Francisco at a site that the Navy and other Atomic Energy contractors have been using since 1946. The waste was mixed with concrete, sealed in 55-gallon steel drums and dumped in about 7,500 feet of water.
On March 21st in 1962 A female black bear was taken aboard a B-58 bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, flown up to 35,000 feet at a supersonic speed of 850 miles per hour, and ejected from the bomber in a specially made capsule. She landed safely, and became the first living creature to survive a parachute jump from a plane flying faster than sound.
On March 21st in 1963 The Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
On March 21st in 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators on the 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery.
On March 21st in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg obtained a copy of the Pentagon Papers, commissioned by then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, from his former pentagon colleagues and showed it to Neil Sheehan, a young New York Times reporter, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On March 21st in 1971 In Laos South Vietnamese Marines at FSB Delta, south of Route 9, came under intense ground and artillery attacks. During an attempted extraction of the force, seven helicopters were shot down and another 50 were damaged, ending the evacuation attempt.
On March 21st in 1972 The US Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a year's residency for voting eligibility.
On March 21st in 1980 President Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
On March 21st in 1983 The US signed the Strasbourg Treaty with European nations for the exchange of prisoners.
On March 21st in 1984 A ground-breaking ceremony was held as portion of NYC’s Central Park was named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon.
On March 21st in 1984 A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
On March 21st in 1991 A UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq.
On March 21st in 1992 President Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met at Camp David, Md.
On March 21st in 1996 The US proceeded with plans to deliver weapons to the Islamabad government in Pakistan. $368 million had been paid for a naval Orion aircraft and two types of missiles.
On March 21st in 1997 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.
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On March 21st in 1999 It was reported that the Space Laser Energy group, SELENE, proposed to transmit energy to satellites by 2004.
On March 21st in 2000 President Clinton began a 5 day stay in India. India rejected his call for further curbs in the nuclear program.
On March 21st in 2000 A divided Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the FDA lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton administration’s main anti-smoking initiative.
On March 21st in 2000 A US Federal Judge ruled that Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba.
On March 21st in 2000 The US Federal Reserve raised short term interest to 6%.
On March 21st in 2001 The US State Dept. ordered the expulsion of 5 suspected Russian spies and informed Moscow that as many as 50 intelligence officers using diplomatic cover would have to leave over the next few months.
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On March 21st in 2001 The Supreme Court ruled that hospitals cannot test pregnant women for drug use without their consent.
On March 21st in 2001 In Vermont a flock of 234 sheep were seized by federal agents over fears of infection with a version of mad cow disease. The sheep had originated in Belgium in 1996.
On March 21st in 2003 The House approved a $2.2 trillion budget embracing President Bush's tax-cutting plan.
On March 21st in 2003 In the 3rd day of Operation Iraqi Freedom the "shock and awe" air campaign began.
On March 21st in 2003 North Korea condemned the US-led war on Iraq and said American war games in South Korea were pushing the divided peninsula "to the brink of a nuclear war."
On March 21st in 2004 The White House disputed assertions by President Bush's former counter-terrorism coordinator, Richard A. Clarke, that the administration had failed to recognize the risk of an attack by al-Qaida in the months leading up to Sept. 11. Clarke's assertions were contained in a new book, "Against All Enemies," that went on sale the next day.
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On March 21st in 2005 President Bush in the early hours signed an emergency bill called the “Palm Sunday Compromise” to permit the reinsertion of a feeding tube to keep Terri Schiavo alive in Florida.
On March 21st in 1999 It was reported that the Space Laser Energy group, SELENE, proposed to transmit energy to satellites by 2004.
On March 21st in 2000 President Clinton began a 5 day stay in India. India rejected his call for further curbs in the nuclear program.
On March 21st in 2000 A divided Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the FDA lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton administration’s main anti-smoking initiative.
On March 21st in 2000 A US Federal Judge ruled that Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba.
On March 21st in 2000 The US Federal Reserve raised short term interest to 6%.
On March 21st in 2001 The US State Dept. ordered the expulsion of 5 suspected Russian spies and informed Moscow that as many as 50 intelligence officers using diplomatic cover would have to leave over the next few months.
On March 21st in 2001 The Supreme Court ruled that hospitals cannot test pregnant women for drug use without their consent.
On March 21st in 2001 In Vermont a flock of 234 sheep were seized by federal agents over fears of infection with a version of mad cow disease. The sheep had originated in Belgium in 1996.
On March 21st in 2003 The House approved a $2.2 trillion budget embracing President Bush's tax-cutting plan.
On March 21st in 2003 In the 3rd day of Operation Iraqi Freedom the "shock and awe" air campaign began.
On March 21st in 2003 North Korea condemned the US-led war on Iraq and said American war games in South Korea were pushing the divided peninsula "to the brink of a nuclear war."
On March 21st in 2004 The White House disputed assertions by President Bush's former counter-terrorism coordinator, Richard A. Clarke, that the administration had failed to recognize the risk of an attack by al-Qaida in the months leading up to Sept. 11. Clarke's assertions were contained in a new book, "Against All Enemies," that went on sale the next day.
On March 21st in 2005 President Bush in the early hours signed an emergency bill called the “Palm Sunday Compromise” to permit the reinsertion of a feeding tube to keep Terri Schiavo alive in Florida.
On March 21st in 2005 The US State Department said the US is suspending about $2 million in military assistance to Nicaragua because President Enrique Bolanos has not followed through on a promise to destroy surface-to-air-missiles.
On March 21st in 2005 In northern Minnesota Jeff Weise gunned down five fellow students, a teacher and a guard at Red Lake High School. The teen's grandfather and his grandfather's wife also were found dead. Jeff Weise took his own life ending the siege.
On March 21st in 2006 President Bush said that the war in Iraq might outlast his presidency and predicted American forces would remain in Iraq for years. President Bush said it would be up to a future President to decide when to bring them all home.
On March 21st in 2006 President Bush said that the war in Iraq might outlast his presidency and predicted American forces would remain in Iraq for years. President Bush said it would be up to a future President to decide when to bring them all home.
On March 21st in 2006 President Bush welcomed Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the White House, calling Africa's first democratically elected female head of state "a pioneer."
On March 21st in 2006 Sgt. Michael J. Smith, an Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib, was convicted at Fort Meade, Md., of abusing prisoners. Smith was sentenced to 179 days in prison.
On March 21st in 2010 President Barack Obama announced that he will reaffirm a ban on using federal funds to pay for abortions, which convinced some holdout Democrats to support the healthcare overhaul but riled Republicans who said the decision could be easily reversed. US House Democrats voted 219-212 late in the day to send legislation to Obama that would extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans and ban insurance company practices such as denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions.
On March 21st in 2011 President Barack Obama flew to Chile to promote democracy and economic growth on the American continent on the second leg of his Latin American tour aimed at bolstering trade and investment. Obama said he's ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes committed during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
On March 21st in 2011 In Arizona Carlos La Madrid (19) was shot climbing a ladder while trying to cross the border back to Mexico. He was shot three times, twice in the back and once in the thigh, by Border Patrol agent Lucas Tidwell and died later the same day at a local hospital. Investigators found 48 pounds of marijuana in the back of the truck La Madrid was driving. A 17-year-old illegal immigrant identified as Jesus Manuel Chino Lino ran from the truck was arrested on charges of drug possession and transportation charges. In 2012 Guadalupe Guerrero, the mother of Carlos la Madrid, sued the US federal government and the agent.
On March 21st in 2011 In Arizona Carlos La Madrid (19) was shot climbing a ladder while trying to cross the border back to Mexico. He was shot three times, twice in the back and once in the thigh, by Border Patrol agent Lucas Tidwell and died later the same day at a local hospital. Investigators found 48 pounds of marijuana in the back of the truck La Madrid was driving. A 17-year-old illegal immigrant identified as Jesus Manuel Chino Lino ran from the truck was arrested on charges of drug possession and transportation charges. In 2012 Guadalupe Guerrero, the mother of Carlos la Madrid, sued the US federal government and the agent.
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