Civil Rights March ( 1965 ) Following the Bloody Sunday March earlier in the month, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 3,000 civil rights demonstrators in a march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery under the protection of army units deployed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
US To Boycott Olympics21st March ( 1980 ) President Carter told U.S. Olympic athletes that the U.S. will be boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Charles A. Lindbergh 21st March ( 1928 ) : President Coolidge presented Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with the Congressional Medal of Honor. .
Sharpeville Massacre21st March ( 1960 ) Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators in the black township of Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, South Africa, killing 69 people and wounding 180 in a hail of submachine-gun fire.