On This Day:
Saturday March 21, 2015 This is the 80th day of the year, with 285 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: bulbs, tubers, corms Some plants produce underground storage organs, such as bulbs, tubers, and corms. Every autumn the leaves of the plant die, but the following spring new leaves develop from buds on the bulb. Although this process may look like germination, it is very different.
Holidays Feast day of St. Benedict, St. Enda, St. Nicholas of Flue, St. Fanchea, and St. Serapion of Thmuis.
Namibia: Independence Day (from South Africa, 1990).
South Africa: Human Rights Day (commemorating the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, when a peaceful demonstration against apartheid was fired upon and 69 people killed).
United Nations: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Iowa: Bird Day.
Iran: Iranian New Year / Noruz.
Lesotho: National Tree Planting Day.
Events 1804 - The French civil code, the Napoleonic Code, was adopted.
1806 - Lewis and Clark began their trip home after investigating Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast.
1826 - The Rensselaer School in Troy, New York was incorporated. Known today as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, it was the first engineering college in the U.S.
1946 - The United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in New York City.
1961 - The Beatles made their debut in an appearance at Liverpool's The Cavern.
1963 - The Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
1965 - More than 3,000 demonstrators led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Births 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer.
1806 - Benito Juarez, Mexican statesman.
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer Ziegfeld Follies.
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, American Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
1910 - Julio Gallo, American vintner.
Deaths 1843 - Robert Southey, English poet.
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