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March 21, 1924: Popular English music hall comedian T.E. Dunville kills himself at 56 by leaping into the River Thames in London. He leaves a note to his wife: "I feel I cannot bear it any longer. Goodbye!"




March 21, 1924: The first mutual fund, the Massachusetts Investors Trust, is launched in Boston. The fund pools cash from small investors to buy a basket of many stocks; its open-ended capitalization allows stockholders to withdraw at any time. Sherman Adams (Jan 8, 1899 – October 27, 1986) runs the venture. As a politician he was best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of an 18-year political career that also included a stint as the 67th governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal when he accepted an expensive vicuña (wool) coat and an oriental rug.



The trust's initial $50,000 is raised through brokerage channels; this grows to $2.5 million in two years amid the 1920s stock boom. Although the trust loses 83% of its holdings to the Crash of 1929, it survives and is still in business today as MFS Investment Management. They are one of the oldest asset management companies in the world.


March 21, 1966: memo from Mount Weather: "Do Not Remove From Installation." Special Facility Bulletin No. 1 concerning "Rabies Problem." Found at the LBJ Presidential Library.




In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Earth Day, and so it began, climate change, depopulation, a round table of Malthusians and puppet charlatans and here we are.


Earth Day is April 22, 2024 and the official theme for 2024 is "Planet vs. Plastics."



50 years ago, Candy Darling, transsexual actress and friend of Andy Warhol, dies of lymphoma in New York City. She was 29. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.


She left a sad letter on her deathbed:

Finally, having spent most of his life emulating Hollywood's great tragic divas, Candy became one herself: "By the time you read this I will be gone," she writes in a letter to Warhol and other friends from her death bed. "Unfortunately before my death I had no desire left for life . . . I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. (D)id you know I couldn't last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again."

On March 19, 2024, Cynthia Carr published Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, a biographical portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar.


March 21, 1963: Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, known for housing notorious criminals like Al Capone and the "Birdman of Alcatraz," officially closed after 29 years. The decision was made to close it based on high operational costs and deteriorating facilities due to its location in San Francisco Bay.




1969 British film Moon Zero Two, released in USA in March 1970. The film takes place in May 2021. What happened Elon???



Catherine von Schell, born July 17, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary, real name is Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott, the scion of a once wealthy German patrician family. Her father, the Baron Paul Schell von Bauschlott, was a well-respected diplomat until the Nazis confiscated their estates during WWII, while her mother was Countess Katharina Maria Etelka Georgina Elisabeth Teleki de Szék.

Her family was living in poverty until 1948 when they sought asylum in Vienna and Salzburg as the communist regime began to take hold in Hungary. In 1950, her family emigrated to the States and Baron von Schell Bauschlott renounced his title in order for his family to gain citizenship. Catherine entered a convent school in New York's Staten Island area. In 1957, her father joined Radio Free Europe, taking the family to Munich where she developed an interest for acting and trained at the prestigious Falconberg School. Her inauspicious debut (sometimes billed as Catherine von Schell) was in the German film Lana, Queen of the Amazons (1964).

Through her German great-grandfather, she is a great-niece of King Louis XIV of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, 7th Prime-Minister of France, and Franz I & II & III, 50th Holy Roman Emperor and 8th Grand-Duke of Tuscany and former Duke of Lorraine.

Both the director and writer of "Lana, Queen of the Amazons" are of German aristocrat bloodlines.


Married twice, no kids, she is now known as Catherine Hays after her second husband, Bill Hays who died in March 2006. Retired from acting in 2004, but came out of retirement, starting with the Netflix series Dracula (2020).

Actor and dancer Yvonne Castelle was paralyzed for life after an accident on the film's Moon Zero Two set, remaining bedridden for 10 years.

The film's lunar surface sets and models were so well done some were re-used in other television productions for many years afterwards, appearing in the likes of UFO (1970), Moonbase 3 (1973) and Space: 1999 (1975), as well as the feature films Superman II (1980), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and as recently as Duncan Jones' debut film Moon (2009).



"We have a cancer — within, close to the presidency, that’s growing."

- John Dean to Richard Nixon, March 21, 1973



Audio and transcript: Watergate Trial Tapes


March 21, 1974: Belly dancer Zizi Mostafa (1943-2008) provides after dinner entertainment for Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, (seen third from left), and her husband, Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis, (wearing dark glasses, on right), who removed wine glasses from the table to make the way for the bejeweled feet of the exotic dancer at a Cairo nightclub late March 21st - the first day of the couple's private holiday to Egypt with a party of millionaires. At the age of 16 she quickly became one of the most popular actresses in Egypt and throughout the Arab world.






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