TV actor Joseph Mawle

Events in 1974 and 21-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Joseph Mawle

• OPEC ends the oil embargo begun in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War (Mar. 18).
• Nixon and Brezhnev meet in Moscow to discuss arms limitation agreements. Background: nuclear disarmament
• Leftist revolution ends almost 50 years of dictatorial rule in Portugal (launched Apr. 25).
• India successfully tests an atomic device, becoming the world's sixth nuclear power (May 18).
• Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power (Sept. 12).

Birthday Joseph Mawle (21-3) in history

• Day 21-3 year 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury was imprisoned in Oxford, UK, accused of heresy.
• Day 21-3 year 1804: The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
• Day 21-3 year 1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• Day 21-3 year 1960: Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.
• Day 21-3 year 1963: Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
• Day 21-3 year 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• Day 21-3 year 2010: The House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be sent to President Obama to sign into law.