On This Day in History

March 21

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​Historical Events​

​1349 Black Death Massacre: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe

​1804 Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law

Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley with his servant Kalulu, who he later adopted

​1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

​1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years

​2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation

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​Famous Birthdays​

​Taizu​ ​927 - 976

​Modest Mussorgsky​ ​1839 - 1881

​Albert Kahn​ ​1869 - 1942

​Ayrton Senna​ ​1960 - 1994

Also Ingrid Kristiansen (69) and Ronaldinho (45)

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​Famous Deaths​

​Pocahontas​ Died in 1617

​Chinua Achebe​ ​1930 - 2013

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​The Most Expensive Divorce in History​

Beautiful and rich, Eleanor of Aquitaine had one fault according to the King of France: she had not produced a son. So on this day they were divorced.

The Divorce that Changed History