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March 21 in recent years

2008 (Friday)

2007 (Wednesday)

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March 21 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

Common date of the Equinox. In astrology, March 21 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; and International Astrology Day.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

[edit] Events

630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
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.
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
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.
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1849 - The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree.
1857 - An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
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: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1919 - The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
1937 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1940 - Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
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.
1962 - Taco Bell founded.
1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
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.
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.
1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1970 - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1970 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything".
1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
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 JR?"
1985 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
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.
2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
2004 - In Malaysia, the 11^th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
2005 - Red Lake High School massacre: Jeff Weise shoots and kills seven people at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota before committing suicide. Weise had priorly killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend.
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.

[edit] Births

1521 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
1527 - Hermann Finck, German composer (d. 1558)
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1763 - Jean Paul, German writer (d. 1825)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and national hero (d. 1872)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
1854 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theater producer (d. 1932)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1885 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (d. 1952)
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist (d. 1990)
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
1922 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
1922 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
1923 - Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1925 - Peter Brook, British film director and producer
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1932 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor
1930 - James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
1933 - Michael Heseltine, English politician
1934 - Al Freeman, Jr., American actor
1935 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (d. 2004)
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1936 - Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer, bandleader and pianist
1937 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1942 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)
1943 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (d. 1995)
1943 - István Gyulai, Hungarian General Secretary of the IAAF (d. 2006)
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
1945 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, British actor
1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
1949 - Eddie Money, American musician
1950 - Roger Hodgson, English musician, former member of Supertramp
1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr, American singer (The Stylistics)
1956 - Guy Chadwick, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (The House of Love)
1956 - Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian runner
1958 - Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian 3-time Formula 1 World Champion (d. 1994)
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso
1961 - Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, talk show host, and publisher
1962 - Mark Waid, American comic book writer
1963 - Shawon Dunston, baseball player
1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch footballer and football manager
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1964 - Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1967 - Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1967 - Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
1968 - DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer, Highest International Goal Scorer
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1973 - Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
1973 - Jerry Supiran, American actor
1974 - Jose Clayton, Tunisian footballer
1975 - Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player, playing for San Antonio Spurs
1975 - Justin Pierce, British actor (d. 2000)
1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
1977 - Brian Shaw, American Entertainer/Recording Artist
1978 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
1978 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor channel 10 (d.2 November 2007)
1978 - Cristian Guzmán, baseball player
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1980 - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian current international footballer (Ranked best Brazilian Footballer)
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
1982 - Aaron Hill, American baseball player
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1985 - Adrian Peterson, Professional Football Player for the Minnesota Vikings
2004 - Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg