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On this day: March 21

POSTED: 11:38 AM PDT Mar 18, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Mar 20, 2013

Alcatraz prison closes, Martin Luther King Jr. marches toward Montgomery, the U.S. decides to boycott Moscow's Olympics, and Spielberg nabs his first Oscar, all on this day.

OTD March 21 - Alcatraz — 17 / 31

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1963: Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. The facility, which first served as a military prison and then a federal prison since 1933, is now a museum and one of San Francisco's major tourist attractions.

OTD March 21 - Pocahontas

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OTD March 21 - Son House

OTD March 21 - Bela Kun

OTD March 21 - Russ Meyer

OTD March 21 - Charles Lindbergh

OTD March 21 - Solomon Burke

OTD March 21 - Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff

OTD March 21 - Kenny Washington

OTD March 21 - Timothy Dalton

OTD March 21 - Eddie Money

OTD March 21 - Moondog Coronation Ball

OTD March 21 - Rock Around the Clock

OTD March 21 - Gary Oldman

OTD March 21 - Matthew Broderick

OTD March 21 - Rosie O'Donnell

OTD March 21 - Alcatraz

OTD March 21 - Ranger 9

OTD March 21 - Selma to Montgomery

OTD March 21 - Earth Day

OTD March 21 - Kevin Federline

OTD March 21 - 1980 Olympics

OTD March 21 - JR Ewing shot

OTD March 21 - Ronaldinho

OTD March 21 - Arthur Ashe

OTD March 21 - Robert Preston

OTD March 21 - U2

OTD March 21 - Like a Prayer

OTD March 21 - Steven Spielberg

OTD March 21 - Bruce Springsteen

OTD March 21 - Breitling Orbiter 3

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