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Events on March 21

• 1804 The Civil Code, or Code Napoléon, the French civil law code, is promulgated. Its basic principles are still in force today.
• 1848 Following the bloody barricade uprising, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. rides through Berlin wearing a black-red-gold sash and proclaims his will for unity and freedom of Germany.
• 1871 Emperor Wilhelm I. appoints Otto von Bismarck as the first Imperial Chancellor of the newly founded German Empire and raises him to the rank of prince. Hermann von Thile becomes the first cabinet member as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
• 1919 In Weimar, the Bauhaus, initiated by Walter Gropius, is established as a school of design.
• 1933 With a state ceremony in the Garrison Church in Potsdam, the Nazis stage the convening of the Reichstag as the Potsdam Day.
• 1960 The politically inflammatory television series The Black Channel is launched on German television, in which Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler broadcasts excerpts from Western television that have been shortened and spliced together in order to distort their original content.
• 1966 At the party congress of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Konrad Adenauer steps down as party chairman. Two days later, Ludwig Erhard is elected as his successor, and Adenauer is named honorary chairman.
• 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
• 1991 German Federal Minister of Research Heinz Riesenhuber announces the final go-ahead for the Kalkar nuclear power plant. The city of Kalkar in North Rhine-Westphalia receives around 60 million euros in compensation.
• 1999 Following their successful circumnavigation of the globe in their hot-air balloon Orbiter 3, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones land in Egypt after almost 20 days in the air without interruption.
• 2006 The microblogging service Twitter is founded. On the very same day, the very first tweet is sent by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
• 2010 The 10th Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver end after ten days. Germany was the most successful nation with 13 gold medals.

Born on March 21

• 1882 Fritzi Massary, Austrian actress
• 1901 Karl Arnold, German politician
• 1902 Gustav Fröhlich, German actor, director and screenwriter
• 1950 Sergei Lawrow, Russian diplomat and politician
• 1960 Ayrton Senna, Brazilian racing driver
• 1961 Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
• 1961 Hubert Kah, German musician and producer
• 1980 Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 Mandy Capristo, German model and pop singer
• 1991 Antoine Griezmann, French footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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