TUESDAY INHISTORY

Today is Tuesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2017. There are 285 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On March 21, 1952, the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena.

On this date:

In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy.

In 1804, the French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it was later called, was adopted.

In 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools.

In 1946, the recently created United Nations Security Council set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in The Bronx.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a four-day conference in Bermuda.

In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed.

In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a year’s residency for voting eligibility.

In 1981, Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Ala., was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

In1997, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclearweapons arsenals.

In 2006, the social media website Twitter was established.

Ten years ago: Former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming.

Five years ago: The NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the team’s former defensive coordinator.

One year ago: President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gary Oldman is 59. Actor Matthew Broderick is 55. Comedian-talk show host Rosie O’Donnell is 55.

Thought for Today: “History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.” — Ernest Albert Hooten, American anthropologist (1887-1954).