1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

 JustineFromWyoming wrote: 

A Happy Birthday today to Aretha Franklin 1942 and Elton John 1947

 Skydog wrote: 
I think we all know how it went down. —SFW

 Skydog wrote: 

March 24, 1973 : A fan shouting "Leather!" jumps on stage and bites Lou Reed in the butt during a concert in Buffalo. The fan is ejected and Reed is left with a sore posterior.

1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing

1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army

1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history

March 23, 1964
John Lennon's first book, 'In His Own Write,' is published and becomes an instant best-seller. 

2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji

1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young)

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany

1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement

1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City

1963 – The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.

1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

March 21, 1956

Elvis Presley appeared at the 4,000 seated YMCA Gymnasium in Lexington, North Carolina. Also on the bill, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, featuring June Carter, Rod Brasfield, Hal and Ginger. Tickets cost $1 for general admission and $1.50 for reserved seats.