March 21st is the anniversary of the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to King Louis VII, of the Second Great Fire of New Orleans, of the onset of the German Kaisherschlacht offensives in 1918, of massacres in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Sharpsville, South Africa, adn of teh only know occasion on which a Soviet submarine damaged an American aircraft carrier. Among those born on this date were Robert the Bruce, Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lewis, who got a boulevard out of the deal, heroic Mexican President Benito Juarez, and Russian soldier-composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Among those who died on this date, Edmund of Woodstock did so by headsmans axe, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was b-b-qued, the duc dEnghien was shot by firing squad, and Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Muhammed was stabbed. strategypage/today-in-military-history.aspx
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:05:21 +0000
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