📜 This Day in History
March 21
1556Thomas Cranmer, a former archbishop of Canterbury and one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burned at the stake for heresy in Oxford, England.- 1844The Baháʼí calendar, used in the Baháʼí Faith, began.
- 1918First World War: The German Army opened the Spring Offensive with Operation Michael, attempting to break through the Allied lines and to seize ports on the English Channel.
- 1952The Moondog Coronation Ball, generally considered to be the first major rock and roll concert, took place at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1980The American soap opera Dallas aired the episode "A House Divided", which led to eight months of international speculation on "Who shot J.R.?"
- 2019A major explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng, China, killed 78 people and injured 640 others.
