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 80th 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.
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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.
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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
- 717 –Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
- 1556 –In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- 1821 –Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
- 1913 –Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1919 –The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
- 1943 –Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- 1960 –Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- 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.
Who were born on March 21?
- 1825 –Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
- 1885 –Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (d. 1952)
- 1906 –Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman (d. 1967)
- 1936 –Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer, bandleader and pianist
- 1943 –Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
- 1968 –Jaye Davidson, American actor
- 1972 –Chris Candido, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1978 –Nick Baines, English keyboardist (Kaiser Chiefs)
- 1988 –Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player
- 1990 –Mandy Capristo, German singer (Monrose)
Who died on March 21?
- 1063 –Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
- 1762 –Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
- 1804 –Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (executed) (b. 1772)
- 1881 –Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
- 1884 –Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
- 1936 –Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
- 1958 –Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1980 –Angelo Bruno, American mobster (b. 1910)
- 2001 –Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
- 2011 –Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)
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