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| 1617 |
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Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) dies of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe. |
| 1788 |
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Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire. |
| 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark begin their trip home after an 8,000 mile trek of the Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast. |
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| 1928 |
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President Calvin Coolidge presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh,
a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, for making the first solo
trans-Atlantic flight. On June 11, 1927, Lindbergh had received the
first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded. |
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| 1980 |
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President Jimmy Carter announces to the
U.S. Olympic Team that they will not participate in the 1980 Summer
Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. |
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| Born on March 21 |
| 1685 |
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Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer. |
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| 1869 |
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Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, creator of Ziegfeld Follies. |
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