This Day in History for March 21

21st, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

On this date:
In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.

In 1790, Thomas Jefferson reported to President Washington in New York as the new secretary of state.

In 1804, the French civil code, the "Code Napoleon," was adopted.

In 1806, Mexican statesman Benito Juarez was born in Oaxaca.

In 1945, during World War Two, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.

In 1946, the United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in New York.

In 1960, some 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on demonstrators.

In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that states may not require at least a year's residency for voting eligibility.

In 1979, the Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved a peace treaty with Israel.