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.
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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 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
- 717 –Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
- 1188 –Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
- 1413 –Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1556 –In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- 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.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
- 1844 –The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
- 1928 –Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1933 –Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- 1946 –The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- 1964 –In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing “Non ho l'età” (“I'm not old enough”).
- 1965 –Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- 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.?”
- 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.
- 1999 –Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- 2006 –Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
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