Unforgettable Moments From March 21 - This Date In History

1788 Olaudah Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), a freed slave, petitions King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes 1st commissioned officer in the Revenue Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the modern US Coast Guard
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1917 Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
1925 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran
1947 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have "complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States”
1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1980 On season finale cliffhanger of TV show "Dallas", villain J.R. Ewing is shot by unknown assailant
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 Arthur Ashe is nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida
1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
2006 First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr”
2019 A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
2019 Levi Strauss & Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York stock exchange

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