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