What Day of the Week

March 8, 2021 was the 67^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 298 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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

Pisces 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.

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• 1010

  Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
• 1126

  Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1655

  John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
• 1702

  Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 1736

  Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1777

  Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
• 1782

  Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
• 1916

  World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• 1957

  The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 2004

  A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.

• 1712

  John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
• 1714

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
• 1746

  André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
• 1886

  Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
• 1948

  Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
• 1949

  Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1957

  Billy Childs, composer/pianist
• 1960

  Buck Williams, American basketball player
• 1979

  Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
• 1984

  Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer

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