Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2019.
Todays Highlight in History:
On March 21, 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: just setting up my twttr.
In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran.
In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
In 2007, former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republicans questioned the science behind his climate-change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
