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Saturday, 21 March 2026

2006

Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.

2002

In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl.

1999

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

1997

In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.

1990

Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.

1989

''Sports Illustrated'' reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

1985

Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.

1980

On the season finale of the soap opera ''Dallas'', the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"

US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

1970

The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

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