About March 21
March 21, 2022 is the 80th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 307 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.
- 1788 –A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
- 1801 –The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
- 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.
- 1919 –The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
- 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.'
- 1937 –Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
- 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: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
- 1952 –Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
- 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.
- 2006 –Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
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