March 21

This day in history:

• 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.
• 630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
• 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• 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.

Births:

• 1555 – John Leveson, English politician (d. 1615)
• 1835 – Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
• 1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952)

Deaths:

• 1943 – Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 2011 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (b. 1913)

Holidays:

• Rosie the Riveter Day (United States)
• Mother's Day (most of the Arab world)
• Harmony Day (Australia)

Random Article of the day:

Siu Lek Yuen Nullah

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.