What are the important events that happened on March 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 21: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 21 is the 80^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 8, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,041,920 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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 333 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,473 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 21: This Day In History

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.

March 21 Historical Events

• 1413 –
  Henry V becomes King of England.
• 1788 –
  A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• 1804 –
  Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
• 1935 –
  Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
• 1952 –
  Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1960 –
  Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• 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.
• 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.?”
• 1997 –
  In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
• 2006 –
  Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.

Who were born on March 21?

• 1806 –
  Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman (d. 1872)
• 1854 –
  Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
• 1882 –
  Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician and nationalist (d. 1963)
• 1916 –
  Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai maestro (d. 2006)
• 1923 –
  Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious figure (d. 2011)
• 1944 –
  Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
• 1951 –
  Russell Thompkins Jr, American singer (The Stylistics)
• 1962 –
  Matthew Broderick, American actor
• 1964 –
  Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
• 1967 –
  Jonas Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)

Who died on March 21?

• 1063 –
  Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
• 1487 –
  Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
• 1801 –
  Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
• 1843 –
  Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
• 1980 –
  Angelo Bruno, American mobster (b. 1910)
• 1994 –
  Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2001 –
  Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 –
  Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
• 2007 –
  Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
• 2008 –
  Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect (b. 1931)