1474
Mar 21, Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder, saint, was born.

1702
Mar 21, Queen Anne Stuart addressed the English parliament.

1939
Mar 21, Singer Kate Smith recorded “God Bless America" for Victor Records. She introduced the song on her radio program in 1938.

1970
Mar 21, Marlen Haushofer (b.1920), Austrian writer died. Her 1962 novel “The Wall" was her only work translated into English.

1994
Mar 21, Lili Damita (b.1904), French-born actress and first wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), died.

2007
Mar 21, In Texas investigators said Timothy Wayne Shepherd (27) confessed to strangling Tynesha Stewart (19) because he was angry she had begun a new relationship. Shepherd had dismembered and burned her body on a patio grill.

2011
Mar 21, Guatemala's first lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, began divorce proceedings ending her eight-year marriage to President Alvaro Colom, so that she can seek to succeed him as president. On April 1 a judge temporarily blocked the divorce proceedings. On April 8 a judge dismissed a suit seeking to block the divorce proceedings, clearing the way for her to run for the presidency.

2012
Mar 21, In southern California Shaima Alawadi (32), a woman from Iraq, was found by her daughter (17) unconscious on the dining room floor of her home in El Cajon. She was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but she was taken off life around 3 p.m. on March 24. Police investigated her death as a possible hate crime. On Nov 9 police announced the arrest of her husband, Kassim al-Himidi, on suspicion of her murder. On June 23, 2014, Kassim al-Himidi was sentenced to 26 years in prison for his wife’s fatal beating.

2014
Mar 21, US first lady Michelle Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first day of her week long visit to China, in a sign that the leaders of the world's two largest economies are seeking to build stronger bonds.

2014
Mar 21, In western India 10 women drowned when a small boat loaded with farm workers sank in a lake in Rajasthan's state Tonk district.