March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
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. In the 21st century, the equinox usually occurs on March 19 or 20, being on March 21 only in 2003 and 2007. The next year in which the equinox occurs on March 21 is 2102.
NATIONAL COMMON COURTESY DAY
630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
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. In the 21st century, the equinox usually occurs on March 19 or 20, being on March 21 only in 2003 and 2007. The next year in which the equinox occurs on March 21 is 2102.
NATIONAL COMMON COURTESY DAY
630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
1413 – Henry V becomes King of England.
1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
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.
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.
1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
1928 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi, formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1945 – World War II, Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1952 – Disc jockey Albert James "Alan" Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1965 – Dr. 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.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
BORN TODAY
1752 – Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor (d. 1837)
1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952)
1906 – John D. Rockefeller III, American philanthropist (d. 1978)
1910 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)
1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Amina Claudine Myers, American singer-songwriter and pianist
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
BORN TODAY
1752 – Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor (d. 1837)
1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952)
1906 – John D. Rockefeller III, American philanthropist (d. 1978)
1910 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)
1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Amina Claudine Myers, American singer-songwriter and pianist
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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