Today in History<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">March 21</a></strong></p><p><strong>This day in history</strong>:</p><ul><li><em>1937 – Ponce massacre: Nineteen unarmed civilians in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police in a terrorist attack ordered by the US-appointed Governor, Blanton Winship.</em></li><li><em>630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.</em></li><li><em>1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.</em></li><li><em>1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.</em></li></ul><p><strong>Births:</strong></p><ul><li><em>1555 – John Leveson, English politician (d. 1615)</em></li><li><em>1835 – Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)</em></li><li><em>1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952)</em></li></ul><p><strong>Deaths:</strong></p><ul><li><em>1943 – Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)</em></li><li><em>1999 – Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)</em></li><li><em>2011 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (b. 1913)</em></li></ul><p><strong>Holidays:</strong></p><ul><li><em>Rosie the Riveter Day (United States)</em></li><li><em>Mother's Day (most of the Arab world)</em></li><li><em>Harmony Day (Australia)</em></li></ul><p><strong>Random Article of the day:</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siu_Lek_Yuen_Nullah" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Siu Lek Yuen Nullah</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>The Siu Lek Yuen Nullah (Chinese: 小瀝源渠) is one of the nullahs of the Shing Mun River in Siu Lek Yuen, Hong Kong.</p></blockquote>