San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is March 21, 2021. Today’s highlight in history
On March 21, 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
On this date
In 1918, during World War I, Germany launched its Spring Offensive on the Western Front, hoping to break through the Allied lines before American reinforcements could arrive.
In 1945, during World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany. In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
In 1986, Debi Thomas of the United States won the ladies’ title at the World Figure Skating Championships, dethroning Katarina Witt of East Germany.
In 2019, President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. would recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a shift in U.S. policy.
Today’s birthdays
Actor Marie-christine Barrault is 77. Actor Timothy Dalton is 75. Singer Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) is 75. Musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 71. Singer Russell Thompkins Jr. is 70. Actor Sabrina Lebeauf is 63. Actor Gary Oldman is 63. Actor Matthew Broderick is 59. Actor Rosie O’donnell is 59. Rapper-tv personality Kevin Federline is 43.