This Day in History: March 21

On at the present time, March 21…

2006: Twitter is established with the sending of the primary tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who writes: “just setting up my twttr.”

Also on at the present time:

• 1556: Thomas Cranmer, the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned on the stake for heresy.
• 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.
• 1925: Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay indicators the Butler Act, which prohibits the educating of the Theory of Evolution in public colleges. (Tennessee would repeal the regulation in 1967.)
• 1935: Persia formally adjustments its identify to Iran.
• 1946: The just lately created United Nations Security Council units up short-term headquarters at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York.
• 1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball, thought-about the primary rock and roll live performance, takes place at Cleveland Arena.
• 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan start a four-day convention in Bermuda.

• 1963: The Alcatraz federal jail island in San Francisco Bay is emptied of its final inmates and closed on the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1972: The Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, guidelines that states could not require no less than a yr’s residency for voting eligibility.
• 1981: Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Ala., is kidnapped, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (A lawsuit introduced by Donald’s mom, Beulah Mae Donald, would consequence in a landmark judgment that bankrupted one Klan group.)
• 1997: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrap up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, nonetheless deadlocked over NATO growth, however capable of agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.
• 2009: Former Vice President Al Gore makes an emotional return to Congress as he pleads with House and Senate committees to struggle international warming.
• 2014: A beforehand divided U.N. Security Council sends a powerful and united message to the Syrian authorities and opposition to right away implement proposals by worldwide envoy Kofi Annan to finish Syria’s yearlong bloodshed.