Thursday March 21, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

March 21: Day of the Week

March 21, 2024 was the 81st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 285 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

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 Event(s)

1413
Henry V becomes King of England.
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: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
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: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
1965
Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1970
The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980
US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1999
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

Who were born on March 21?

1863
George Owen Squier, American inventor (d. 1934)
1895
Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1921
Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
1923
Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
1962
Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress
1964
Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1973
Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
1975
Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player
1988
Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player
1990
Rafael Avila, Honduran Celebrity

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