About March 21
March 21, 2025 is the 80th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters CODELINRRI? Check your answers here: Unscramble words CODELINRRI. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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 333 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
- 1188 –Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
- 1800 –With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
- 1804 –Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- 1871 –Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- 1871 –Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- 1913 –Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1921 –The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
- 1933 –Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- 1935 –Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
- 1943 –Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
- 1945 –World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
- 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.
- 1946 –The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- 1952 –Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 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.
- 1964 –In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing “Non ho l'età” (“I'm not old enough”).
- 1968 –Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
- 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.?”
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: March 21
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Share or Link to This Page: