WHAT HAPPENED ON 21. MARCH
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The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. (21. March 1919)

The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism. (21. March 1921)

The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. (21. March 1925)

Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. (21. March 1925)

Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. (21. March 1928)

Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed. (21. March 1933)

Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans". (21. March 1935)

Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship. (21. March 1937)

Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. (21. March 1943)

World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the [Battle of the Transdanubian Hills] concludes. (21. March 1945)

The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933. (21. March 1946)

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. (21. March 1952)

Apartheid in South Africa: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. (21. March 1960)

Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. (21. March 1963)

In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough"). (21. March 1964)

Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. (21. March 1965)

Dr. 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. (21. March 1965)

Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah. (21. March 1968)