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Anniversaries

Sunday 21 March 1993 00:02 GMT
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21 March 1556: Thomas Cranmer, first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, burnt at the stake for heresy.

1960: Police killed about 70 protesters at Sharpeville in South Africa.

1963: Alcatraz prison closed.

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