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March 21

1685
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.

1713
Birth of Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Llandaff, Wales, Lewis immigrated to the American colonies in 1735. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1775-1779 and served in the Provincial Congress in 1776 and 1777. His participation in the Revolutionary movement cost him most of his fortune, and led to the imprisonment and ultimately the death of his wife. After her death he retired from public life. He died in 1802 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Trinity Episcopal Church in New York City.

1788
Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans, LA.

1790
Thomas Jefferson took office as America's first secretary of state.

1859
The first Zoological Society was incorporated in Philadelphia by its 36 members. The Civil War interrupted establishing a zoological park, but work was finally begun in 1873 and the zoo was completed in 1874.

1865
The Civil War Battle of Bentonville (NC) ends. It was the last Confederate effort to stop Sherman and the Union Army. Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston wrote to General Robert E. Lee: "Sherman's course can not be altered by the small force I have. I can do no more than annoy him." On April 18 he signed an armistice with Sherman at the Bennett House in Durham, NC, and on April 26 formally surrendered his army.

1871
Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.

1918
Germany launched the Somme offensive during World War I, hoping to break through the Allied line before American reinforcements could arrive.

1965
More than 3000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.