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Today in History: March 21

0630 Heraclius restores the True Cross, which he has recaptured from the Persians.

1556 Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven recantations that same day.

1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire.

1910 The U.S. Senate grants ex-President Teddy Roosevelt an annual pension of $10,000.

1963 Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, closes.

1984 A Soviet submarine crashes into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.


Born on March 21

1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer.

1885 Raoul Lufbery, French-born American fighter pilot of World War I.

JOTD
A soldier ran up to a nun. Out of breath he asked, "Please, may I hide under your skirt. i'll explain later."

The nun agreed... A moment later two Military Police ran up and asked, "Sister, have you seen a soldier?"
The nun replied, "He went that way."
After the MPs ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her skirt said " I can't thank you enough, sister. You see, I don't want to go to Syria."
The nun said, "I understand completely."
The soldier added, "I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!"
The nun replied, "If you had looked a little higher, you would have seen a great pair of balls.... I don't want to go to Syria either."