What Day of the Week
March 21: Day of the Week
March 21, 2023 was the 80th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 285 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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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)
- 1788A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
- 1800With 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.
- 1801The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
- 1804Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- 1913Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1933Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- 1946The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- 1960Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- 1970The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
- 1999Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
Who were born on March 21?
- 1768Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
- 1882Bascom Lamar Lunsford, American lawyer, folklorist, and folk musician (d. 1973)
- 1904Jehane Benoît, Canadian culinary author (d. 1987)
- 1923Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious figure (d. 2011)
- 1950Roger Hodgson, English musician (Supertramp)
- 1955Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Greek politician
- 1967Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
- 1968Cameron Clyne, Australian businessman
- 1968Shin Seung Hun, South Korean ballad singer
- 1970Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (d. 2000)
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