21 Mairch

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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