March 21: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

March 21st marks the 80th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 81st in case of leap years). There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Gary Oldman (1958), Ayrton Senna (1960) and Ronaldinho (footballer) (1980). Holidays and observances around the world include: Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination, 21-27 March, International Day of Nowruz and International Day of Forests.
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Holidays

Blessed Clementia of Hohenberg
World Poetry Day - by UNESCO.
St. Nicholas of Flue
Astrology: First day of star sign Aries.
China: Chunfen.
Harmony Day in Australia.
World Down Syndrome Day
Earth Day.
Ostara - Neopagan festival of Ostara.
Saints Philemon and Domnin
The third day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz): (also celebrated in many other countries of Asia) Iranian calendar.
Traditional date of vernal equinox, used for reckoning Easter. The real equinox usually occurs one day earlier.
South Africa: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Namibia: Independence Day.
Japan: Vernal Equinox Day (public holiday).
Egypt: Mother's Day
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - by United Nations.
Bahá'f Faith - End of the 19-day sunrise-to-sunset.fast.
Benito Juárez Day, a Fiesta Patria in Mexico.
New Year of the Bahá'f Calendar.
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Events

2019 War in Afghanistan: Six people die and 23 are injured in three explosions that occurred during Nowruz celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2018 Saudi Arabian-led intervention into Yemen: Houthis claim that they have shot down an F-15 Royal Saudi Air Force jet flying over Sa'da Province, Yemen.
2017 War in Somalia: At least five people are killed when a car bomb explodes near Villa Somalia, President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s official residence in Mogadishu.
2016 A Serbian man sets off a grenade in a bakery in Belgrade. He kills himself. There were no other injuries.
2015 Yemeni crisis: Due to the worsening security situation, the United States military has ordered the evacuation of 100 Special Operations Forces members.
2014 Insurgency in Iraq (post-U.S. withdrawal:: Gunmen attack a Baghdad police headquarters and suicide bombers strike across Iraq, killing 25 and injuring many others.
2013 Gaza-Israel conflict :: Two rockets were fired from Gaza Strip, Israel. They were fired in Sderot (Israel), in violation of the ceasefire that was established after the eight-day conflict in November 2012.
2012 Uprising in Syria:
2011 Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, claims that the 2011 Bahraini Protests were a foreign plot. He says they were defeated by the intervention of forces of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf’s Peninsula Shield Force.
2010 French President Sarkozy's UMP party is heavily defeat in regional elections.
2009 Minimum 21 people are killed in combat in Russia's Dagestan Republic.
2008 West China is hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.
2007 The 2007 budget is delivered by Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of Exchequer in Great Britain. Other taxes will be increased, while the main rates of income and corporation tax will be reduced by 2% starting in April 2008.
2006 $1M of damage was caused by immigrant workers who were building the Burj Khalifa.
2005 Red Lake High School massacre in Minnesota kills ten people. It is the deadliest school shooting since Columbine High School massacre.
2004 Jimmy Carter, former US president, and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, strongly condemns George W. Bush's and Tony Blair's inordinate war on Saddam Hussein. Blair, he claims, allowed his better judgement to be influenced by Bush's desire for a successful end to a war his father had begun.
2003 A court in Illinois ordered Philip Morris to pay damages for misleading consumers by using the word "light". The company appealed.
2002 Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were charged in Pakistan with murder in connection to the kidnapping, killing, and attempted murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government does not have the authority to regulate tobacco addiction drugs, thus removing the main anti-smoking initiative of the Clinton administration.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
1997 Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov
1996 Night of the Iguana opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi.
1991 27 lost at sea when two US Navy anti-submarine planes collide.
1990 Normal Life starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
1989 First sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral.
1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr.
1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South Africa, 19 killed.
1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover ("contol" instead of "control"), all recalled.
1982 Little Johnny Jones opens and closes at Alvin Theater, New York City
1980 On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves peace treaty with Israel.
1978 The U.S. most comprehensive homosexual rights bill is passed in San Francisco
1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years.
1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals.
1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require one-year residency to vote.
1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2 10892
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack Palestinian Liberation Organization bases.
1967 A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts' ruling that film Fanny Hill is obscene.
1965 US Ranger 9 launched, last American unmanned lunar space probe; will take 5,814 pictures before lunar impact.
1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0).
1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in the Netherlands for birth control
1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record
1960 Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1959 Juno closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1958 First presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
1956 28th Academy Awards - Marty, Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC / CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 NBA record 106 fouls and 12 players foul out (Boston Celtics - Syracuse Nationals).
1952 3 Wishes for Jamie opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances
1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, Florida (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 Stop the Music with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1944 Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1943 British 8th Army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia.
1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1941 Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in 13 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1940 Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France Paul Reynaud succeeds him.
1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
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.
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran.
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the US Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee.
1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar.
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes first mutual fund set up in US.
1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition.
1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th Steet New York City.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
1914 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld.
1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1909 The remains of the Báb were placed in his Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
1907 US invades Honduras.
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