21 Mairch

The 21st o Mairch is the 80t day o the year (81st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 285 days ti come.

 Events 
 1684 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muins Tethys an Dione.
 1788 - Fire destroys much o the ceety o New Orleans.
 1844 - Stairt o the Baha'i calendar.
 1871 - Otto von Bismarck is made Chancellor o the German Empire.
 1918 - Warld War I: The first German Ware offensive stairts.
 1935 - Persie is renamed Iran.
 1960 - 69 demonstrators are kilt bi polis in the Sharpeville Shuitin in Sooth Africae.
 1963 - Alcatraz preeson, in San Francisco Bay, closes.
 1965 - NASA launches the Ranger 9 space probe.
 1990 - Namibie gains unthirldom frae Sooth Africae.
 2000 - Pape John Paul II visits Israel.
 2006 - Twitter is foondit.
 2010 - The 2010 Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Vancouver, Canadae, end.
 2017 - Umwhile Deputy First Meenister o Northren Ireland Martin McGuinness dees, twa month efter his demission.
 2018 - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski propales his demission as Preses o Peru efter a corruption scandal.
 2019 - Aroond 70 fowk dee efter a river ferry capsizes naur Mosul, Iraq.
 2019 - Fitbaw: Scotland loses 3-0 tae Kazakhstan in ane o its maist embarrassin results iver.

 Births 
 1675 - James Douglas, Scots medicinar an anatomist (d. 1742) 
 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German componer (d. 1750)
 1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 1830)
 1806 - Benito Juarez, Preses o Mexico (d. 1872)
 1839 - Modest Mussorgsky, Roushie componer (d. 1881)
 1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politeecian an diplomat (d. 2016)
 1928 - Surya Bahadur Thapa, Prime meenister o Nepal (d. 2015)
 1929 - Jimmy Wardhaugh, Scots fitbawer (d. 1978)
 1933 - Michael Heseltine, Welsh politeecian
 1940 - Solomon Burke, American muisicker (d. 2010)
 1942 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, Preses o Yemen (d. 2017)
 1946 - Timothy Dalton, Breetish actor
 1950 - Sergey Lavrov, Roushie politeecian an diplomat
 1955 - Jair Bolsonaro, Preses o Brazil
 1958 - Gary Oldman, Inglis actor
 1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian racin driver (d. 1994)
 1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor
 1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch fitbawer an coach
 1967 - Carwyn Jones, umwhile First Meenister o Wales
 1978 - Rani Mukerji, Indian actress
 1980 - Ronaldinho, Brazilian fitbawer
 1989 - Jordi Alba, Spaingie fitbawer
 1989 - Mark Garside, Scots ice hockey player
 1991 - Antoine Griezmann, French fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Inglis airchbeeshop (b. 1489)
 1838 - George Ramsay, 9t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots sodger an colonial admeenistrator (b. 1770)
 1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st Preses o Mexico (b. 1786)
 1884 - Allen Thomson, Scots medicinar (b. 1809)
 1910 - Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
 1936 - Alexander Glazunov, Roushie componer (b. 1865)
 1991 - Ewan Cameron, Scots medicinar (b. 1922)
 2013 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
 2017 - Martin McGuinness, Northren Erse politeecian (b. 1950)

 Halidays 
 Tradeetional Date o the Northren Ware Equinox
 Tradeetional Date o the Soothren Hairst Equinox
 Iranian Ne'er's Day
 Baha'i Ne'er's Day
 Independence Day (Namibie)
 Human Richts Day (Sooth Africae)
 Birthday o Benito Juarez (Mexico)
 Harmony Day (Australie)
 Warld Down syndrome Day
 Warld Poetry Day
 Warld Puppetry Day
 Internaitional Day o Forests
 Internaitional Colour Day

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Category:Days o the year