On This Day, March 21: Piccard, Jones are 1st to circle globe by balloon

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On March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon. UPI File Photo

On March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed close to Cairo after changing into the primary folks to circle the globe by balloon. UPI File Photograph | License Photo

March 21 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:

In 1413, Henry V was topped king of England.

In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she transformed to Christianity, took the title Rebecca and married Englishman John Rolfe.

In 1790, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia grew to become the primary U.S. secretary of state.

In 1857, 100,000 folks had been killed in an earthquake in Tokyo.

In 1945, 7,000 Allied planes dropped greater than 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany throughout a single World Struggle II daytime bombing raid.

In 1952, Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed organized the primary rock ‘n’ roll live performance — the Moondog Coronation Ball.

In 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged that Russia would cooperate with the USA within the peaceable exploration of area.

In 1963, the U.S. jail on San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island was closed.

In 1965, greater than 300 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr. and guarded by Military and federalized Nationwide Guard troops, began a four-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to demand federal safety of voting rights. This was the primary Selma-Montgomery march. Two earlier makes an attempt had stopped in Selma — one blocked by state troopers on March 7 (“Bloody Sunday”); the opposite halted voluntarily on March 9.

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In 1984, a nuclear-powered Soviet submarine collided with the U.S. plane provider, the usKitty Hawk, within the Sea of Japan however no significant damage was reported.

In 1989, Dick Clark retired from hosting the TV present American Bandstand after 33 years.

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after changing into the primary folks to circle the globe by balloon.

In 2005, a 17-year-old boy on the Purple Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota killed nine people, injured several others and then killed himself.

In 2022, China Japanese Airways Flight MU5735 crashed within the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area in South China, killing all 132 folks on board.