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
- 1152 –Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- 1556 –In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871 –Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- 1913 –Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1918 –World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- 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.
- 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 –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 –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.
- 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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