BITS OF HISTORY
(MARCH 21)
1917: Russian revolutionary forces arrested Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
1960: South African police fired on peaceful demonstrators in Sharpeville in the Transvaal, killing 69 unarmed black protesters.
1990: Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa, became independent from South Africa.
2016: US President Barack Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro hold historic joint news conference in Havana.
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