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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871 –Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- 1919 –The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
- 1925 –Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- 1963 –Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
- 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.
- 1965 –Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
- 1968 –Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
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