^B{^#!16!21 March^N! Feast day of St Benedict, St Enda, St Nicholas of Flue, St Fanchea, and St Serapion of Thmuis.
^B{1933^B} Germany's first Nazi parliament was officially opened in a ceremony at the garrison church in Potsdam. ^B{1946 ^B}British minister Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour government's plans for the National Health Service. ^B{1952^B} Kwame Nkrumah was elected prime minister of the Gold Coast (later Ghana). ^B{1960^B} The Sharpeville Massacre - in South Africa a peaceful demonstration against the pass laws ended with about 70 deaths when police fired on demonstrators. ^B{1963^B} Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison in San Francisco Bay, US, was closed. ^B{1990^B} A demonstration in London, UK, against the poll tax became a riot, in which over 400 people were arrested.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, ^B{1685^B}; Paul Tortelier, French cellist, ^B{1914^B}; Peter Brook, English stage and film director, ^B{1925^B}; Michael Heseltine, British politician, ^B{1933^B}; Brian Clough, English footballer and manager, ^B{1935^B}; Ayrton Senna, Brazilian racing driver, ^B{1960^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at the stake, ^B{1556^B}; James Ussher, Irish theologian and archbishop of Armagh, who fixed the date of the Creation at 4004 BC, ^B{1656^B}; Robert Southey, English poet, ^B{1843^B}; Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, ^B{1936^B}; Philip Wilson Steer, English painter, ^B{1942^B}; Harry H Corbett, English actor, ^B{1982^B}.
