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A bit of March 21st history…
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa (pictured with Kalulu who he later adopts)
1925 - Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the “Butler Act”, making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching of evolution; - repealed in 1967
1935 - Persia is officially renamed Iran
1943 - Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails
1963 - Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed
2013 - The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
2018 - China announces greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and tv broadcasts into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
Today in History: March 21st