About March 21
March 21, 2024 is the 81st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 314 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
March 21: More About This Day
March 21st is the common date of the March equinox (although astronomically the equinox is more likely to fall on March 20 in all but the most easterly longitudes). In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year.
What Happened On March 21
- 717 –Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
- 1152 –Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- 1413 –Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1556 –In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- 1804 –Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
- 1857 –An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
- 1918 –World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- 1928 –Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1945 –World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- 1960 –Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- 1963 –Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
- 1965 –Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
- 1980 –On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase “Who shot J.R.?”
- 1980 –US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
- 1990 –Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
- 1994 –The last episode of the Australian TV series Mother and Son was broadcast.
- 1997 –In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
- 2002 –In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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