Capone
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Al Capone, called before a grand jury, talks to an unidentified man in Chicago, Ill., on March 21, 1929. Capone was charged with tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. (AP Photo)
Raids on Illegal Alcohol
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Dry Agents seize 7,000 barrels of beer in Newark raid, California, March 21, 1930. (AP Photo)
Roosevelt
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, right, enjoys a horseback ride in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., March 21, 1933. (AP Photo)
Bahrain
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A speaker looks down into a sea of Moslem faces as he addresses demonstrators on Bahrain, an oil-rich Island near the coast of Saudi-Arabia on March 21, 1956. Five days of unrest, strikes and demonstrations ended on March 16, when the ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Sir Salman Ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, announced that committees will be set up to consider grievances. The unrest appeared to have been aimed at demand for greater power for the masses and at the influence of the Sheikh’s British adviser, Sir Charles Belgrave. (AP Photo)
Sharpeville Massacre Funeral
- AP
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Trucks laden with coffins of black victims of South African shooting roll through lines of mourners during mass funeral ceremony at Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 21, 1960. No whites were permitted into the area during the funeral of 34 victims, who were killed by South African white police last week. (AP Photo)
ALCATRAZ CLOSES
- AP
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A line of handcuffed prisoners, the last of the convicts held at Alcatraz prison, walk through the cell block as they are transferred to other prisons from Alcatraz Island on San Francisco Bay, Calif., March 21, 1963. Alcatraz, known as "The Rock," was a federal penitentiary for 29 years and a prison for more than a century. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple In Russia 1965
- Brian Calvert
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Shirley Temple, former child film star, waits in the line to visit Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow, March 21, 1965. Miss Temple is in Moscow to consult Russian neurologists about her brother, who has multiple sclerosis. (AP Photo/Brian Calvert)
African American Integration Schools
- WAS
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School integration is now a fact in Cambridge, MD on March 21, 1967 even though it is only on a limited basis. Less than four years ago, the city was wracked by months of demonstrations aimed, in part, at integration of the school systems. One of the top students at formerly all-white Cambridge high school is merit scholar Henry Tucker (front row, second from left) an African American . (AP Photo/WAS)
UCLA ALCINDOR
- AP
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Lew Alcindor towers over coach John Wooden who has some words of advice for the UCLA star during a workout on March 21, 1969 at Louisville, Ky. UCLA will meet Purdue in the finals of the NCAA basketball championships. (AP Phot/stf)
Cambodia Attack 1975
- Anonymous
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A Cambodian soldier grimaces in agony as medics ease him from a stretcher into a helicopter to evacuate him from Neak Luong to Phnom Pehn, March 21, 1975. Neak Luong on the Mekong River was reported under heavy Khmer Rouge mortar, artillery and rocket fire yesterday. (AP Photo)
Boston Public Transportation
- Stu Rosner
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train, known as the "T" moves along the overhead structure part of the Orange Line near the Dover Street station in Boston, March 21, 1980 (AP Photo/Stu Rosner)
Jeffrey Daniel
- Peter Kemp
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Jeffrey Daniel sports a spectacular costume and colorful hairstyle for his role as railroad engine Electra, in the new Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stillgoe musical "Starlight Express," at the Apollo Theatre in London, England, March 21, 1984. The musical, for which all the cast had to learn to roller skate, opens on March 27, 1984. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)
ASPCA pound
- David Bookstaver
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A puppy stares out from a cage at the 91st ASPCA pound in New York on March 21, 1986 after it was saved from a filthy Bronx animal shelter which is owned by a self-proclaimed animal lover. Officials found 285 dogs, 50 cats, and 18 rabbits and exotic birds living under conditions that were described as “the most horrendous possible.” (AP Photo/David Bookstaver)
Spud Webb, Bill Laimberer
- JOE HOLLOWAY, JR.
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Atlanta Hawks Spud Webb is blocks by Detroit Pistons Bill Laimberer and Isiah Thomas as he flies high for a two point try in the 1st period of Tuesday night?s NBA game in Atlanta on March 21, 1989. Color key?the Hawks uniforms are white trimmed in red; Pistons blue. (AP Photo/JHJR)
Oil Disaster U.S. Golf Of Mexico 1989 Explosion
- Burt Steel
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The heavily damaged oil production platform at right was rocked by an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, March 21, 1989. There were 42 people believed to be aboard the Atlantic Richfield Co., platforms when the fires broke out. Thirty-five were rescued, of those 10 were injured and seven are still missing. (AP Photo/Burt Steel)
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A speaker looks down into a sea of Moslem faces as he addresses demonstrators on Bahrain, an oil-rich Island near the coast of Saudi-Arabia on March 21, 1956. Five days of unrest, strikes and demonstrations ended on March 16, when the ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Sir Salman Ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, announced that committees will be set up to consider grievances. The unrest appeared to have been aimed at demand for greater power for the masses and at the influence of the Sheikh’s British adviser, Sir Charles Belgrave. (AP Photo)
Sharpeville Massacre Funeral
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Trucks laden with coffins of black victims of South African shooting roll through lines of mourners during mass funeral ceremony at Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 21, 1960. No whites were permitted into the area during the funeral of 34 victims, who were killed by South African white police last week. (AP Photo)
ALCATRAZ CLOSES
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A line of handcuffed prisoners, the last of the convicts held at Alcatraz prison, walk through the cell block as they are transferred to other prisons from Alcatraz Island on San Francisco Bay, Calif., March 21, 1963. Alcatraz, known as "The Rock," was a federal penitentiary for 29 years and a prison for more than a century. (AP Photo)
Shirley Temple In Russia 1965
- Brian Calvert
Shirley Temple, former child film star, waits in the line to visit Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow, March 21, 1965. Miss Temple is in Moscow to consult Russian neurologists about her brother, who has multiple sclerosis. (AP Photo/Brian Calvert)
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Cambodia Attack 1975
- Anonymous
A Cambodian soldier grimaces in agony as medics ease him from a stretcher into a helicopter to evacuate him from Neak Luong to Phnom Pehn, March 21, 1975. Neak Luong on the Mekong River was reported under heavy Khmer Rouge mortar, artillery and rocket fire yesterday. (AP Photo)
Jeffrey Daniel
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Jeffrey Daniel sports a spectacular costume and colorful hairstyle for his role as railroad engine Electra, in the new Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stillgoe musical "Starlight Express," at the Apollo Theatre in London, England, March 21, 1984. The musical, for which all the cast had to learn to roller skate, opens on March 27, 1984. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)
ASPCA pound
- David Bookstaver
A puppy stares out from a cage at the 91st ASPCA pound in New York on March 21, 1986 after it was saved from a filthy Bronx animal shelter which is owned by a self-proclaimed animal lover. Officials found 285 dogs, 50 cats, and 18 rabbits and exotic birds living under conditions that were described as “the most horrendous possible.” (AP Photo/David Bookstaver)
Spud Webb, Bill Laimberer
- JOE HOLLOWAY, JR.
Atlanta Hawks Spud Webb is blocks by Detroit Pistons Bill Laimberer and Isiah Thomas as he flies high for a two point try in the 1st period of Tuesday night?s NBA game in Atlanta on March 21, 1989. Color key?the Hawks uniforms are white trimmed in red; Pistons blue. (AP Photo/JHJR)
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