On March 21
On March 21, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Promulgation of the Napoleonic Code (1804).
On this day
On 21 March 1804 France promulgated the Civil Code of the French, soon known as the Code Napoléon.
On 21 March 1960 South African police opened fire on a crowd of several thousand unarmed Black protesters outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville, in the Transvaal.
Also this week in history (Mar 18 to Mar 24)
The germ theory of disease holds that specific microorganisms such as bacteria invade the body and cause specific infectious illnesses, overturning the long-dominant miasma theory that attributed disease to bad air.
Between 1600 and 1611 the institutional core of modern finance took shape in northwestern Europe.
On 20 March 2003 a US-led coalition including Britain, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq, opening with a 'shock and awe' bombing campaign aimed at the government of Saddam Hussein.