March 21<\/p>\n
630 \u2013 Emperor Heraclius of Byzantium returns the True Cross relic to Jerusalem from Constantinople.<\/p>\n
1788 \u2013\u00a0 Le Grand incendie de La Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans<\/em> – The Great New Orleans Fire, destroys 856 of the 1,100 structures in the city (now the French Quarter) in less than 5 hours.<\/p>\n 1871 \u2013 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek across Africa to find the missionary and explorer, Dr. David Livingstone.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 As he held a commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, Charles Lindbergh is awarded the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight the previous year.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California closes.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 NASA launches Ranger 9<\/em>, the last unmanned lunar space probe.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 President Carter announces a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet\u2013Afghan War.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Transbrasil Flight 801, a Boeing 707, crashes near S\u00e3o Paulo\/Guarulhos International Airport, killing the 3 crew aboard and 22 more people on the ground.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 The social media site Twitter is founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 21 630 \u2013 Emperor Heraclius of Byzantium returns the True Cross relic to Jerusalem from Constantinople. 1788 \u2013\u00a0 Le Grand incendie de La Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans – The Great New Orleans Fire, destroys 856 of the 1,100 structures in the city (now the French Quarter) in less than 5 hours. 1871 \u2013 Journalist Henry Morton … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90971,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66026\/revisions\/90971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}