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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Aquamarine is your modern birthstone. Jade is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Day In History: March 21
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.
Historical Events: March 21
- 1413 –Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1788 –A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
- 1871 –Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- 1918 –World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on March 21?
- 1882 –Bascom Lamar Lunsford, American lawyer, folklorist, and folk musician (d. 1973)
- 1901 –Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
- 1904 –Jehane Benoît, Canadian culinary author (d. 1987)
- 1916 –Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai maestro (d. 2006)
- 1924 –Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (d. 2010)
- 1932 –Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1962 –Matthew Broderick, American actor
- 1964 –Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
- 1975 –Justin Pierce, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1977 –Charles Blackstone, American author
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