21 March

See also: Category: Holidays March 21

International

• World Poetry Day .
• International Day of Forests ^[2] .
• International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination .
• International Day of Nowruz ^{[3] [4]}
• International Puppet Theater Day .
• International Day of Down Syndrome .

National

•   Belgium ,   Italy ,   Lesotho ,   Portugal - Tree Planting Day .
•   Georgia - Day of the border guard.
•   Iraq - Spring Day.
•   Malaysia - Sultan's Day Terengganu.
•   Namibia - Independence Day ( 1990 ).
•   Poland - truant day .
•   USA - Agriculture Day.
•   Tunisia - Youth Day .
•   South Africa - Human Rights Day .
•   Japan - Spring Equinox .

  Religious

  Catholicism

• memory of Serapion of Tmuit ;
• memory of Nicholas Fluesky .

  Orthodoxy ^{[5] [6] [7]}

• memory of St. Theophylact the Confessor , Bishop of Nicomedia (842-845);
• memory of the Monks Lazarus (1391) and Athanasius (XV) of the Murmansk (Murom), Olonets;
• memory of the apostle Hermas (Hermas), bishop of Philippopolis (I);
• memory of the holy martyr Theodorite , presbyter of Antioch (361–363);
• memory of the Monk Martyr Dometius of Persia (363);
• memory of the holy martyr John of the Znamensky presbyter (1923);
• memory of the martyr Vladimir Ushkov (1942);
• celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” (Kursk Root) (1898).

Name Day

• Catholic: Nicholas , Serapion
• Orthodox: Athanasius , Vladimir , Dometius, Erm (a), Ivan , Lazarus , Theodorite , Theophylactus ^{[5] [6] [7]} .

See also: Category: March 21 events

Until the 19th century

• 630 - Byzantine Emperor Heraclius I beats the Persians from the cross of Jesus Christ and returns it to Jerusalem .
• 1098 - Robert Molemsky founded the Order of the Cistercians in Sito .
• 1556 - Bishop Thomas Cranmer , who translated the Bible into English, is burned in Oxford .
• 1666 - The first census of Canada records that the number of inhabitants is 3,000.

XIX century

• 1804 - Napoleon’s Code adopted in France. On the same day, on the orders of Napoleon I , the Duke of England was killed, which accelerated the creation of the Third Anti-French Coalition (1805) .
• 1843 - Seventh-day Adventists on this day promised the appearance of Jesus Christ .
• 1846 - Belgian wind master Adolf Sachs patented the saxophone .
• 1880 - Chekhov 's debut in print (“A Letter to a Scientist's Neighbor” was published in Dragonfly magazine).

XX century

• 1908 - Henri Farman flies and becomes Europe 's first passenger airplane controlled by Leon Delagrange.
• 1910 - The first public flights of the Russian pilot M. N. Efimov to Farman IV take place in Odessa .
• 1917 - The Romanov family was arrested. On the night of July 16-17, 1918, all those arrested will be shot .
• 1919 - The Hungarian Soviet Republic is proclaimed.
• 1922

- Waterloo Station opened in London .

- In Novonikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk ), the first issue of the Siberian Lights literary magazine was published ^[8] .

• 1923 - In Paris, a certain doctor Roger made a statement that smoking is good for health, since nicotine has antibacterial properties.
• 1924 - 24-year-old physicist Wolfgang Pauli in a published article formulated one of the most important principles of modern theoretical physics, for which in 1945 he received the Nobel Prize.
• 1925 - A law was passed in the US state of Tennessee prohibiting all schools from teaching Darwin's evolutionary theory as contrary to the biblical interpretation of human origin.
• 1927 - The first issue of the Ukrainian Literary Newspaper is published in Kiev .
• 1933 - Potsdam Day
• 1937 - Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On academic degrees and titles."
• 1940 - German scientists Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls reported to the Nazi government about the possibility of creating an atomic bomb .
• 1943 - The corpse of Katharina Labour , who died 67 years earlier, was exhumed in Paris. The corpse was not decomposed.
• 1946 - The United Nations interim headquarters settled in New York .
• 1948 - Pilot V. A. Didenko on the An-6 aircraft set an altitude record for this class of aircraft - 11,248 meters.
• 1961 - The Beatles first performance took place on the stage of the Liverpool The Cavern Club (according to other sources, this happened exactly a month earlier). The protagonist was the long-forgotten band The Bluegenes, and the Beatles (then still a quintet) acted as a supporting group. In the next two years, the group gave almost 300 concerts on this stage.
• 1961 - The first well in Western Siberia produced oil.
• 1962 - According to the Americans, the first living creature to bail out at supersonic speed was a brown bear . The bear was thrown out at an altitude of more than 10 km and a speed of almost 1400 km / h, and after 7 minutes and 49 seconds he landed safely.
• 1963 - Alcatraz , the maximum security prison in the bay of San Francisco , USA closes.
• 1968 - Battle of Karama between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization .
• 1981 - The last recorded case of lynching was recorded in the USA, the victim of which was African-American Michael Donald .
• 1984 - the Soviet nuclear submarine K-314 and the American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided in the Sea of ​​Japan.
• 1986
  • The two-week trip of the Soviet schoolgirl Katya Lycheva across the United States with a "peace mission" began.
  • The first (unsuccessful) test launch of the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile 15A18M (R-36M2) .
• 1990 - Independence of Namibia , 75 years under the rule of South Africa , was proclaimed.
• 1992 - A referendum was held in Tatarstan , in which almost two-thirds of the population voted for the status of a sovereign state, a subject of international law.
• 1999 - After a 478-hour journey, Bertrand Picard and Brian Jones became the first people to fly around the earth in a balloon .

21st Century

• 2005 - Shooting at a training center in Red Lake ( Minnesota, USA ). Organizer - Jeffrey Ways . 10 people died (including the attacker), 5 injured. The attacker shot himself. The tragedy was the second largest school tragedy in the United States after the massacre at Columbine School .
• 2006 - Jack Dorsey posted the first message on his Twitter social network.
• 2014
  • The Federation Council ratified the agreement on the adoption of Crimea to Russia . Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on the annexation of Crimea to Russia .
  • Ukraine has signed an association agreement with the EU.

See also: Category: Born on March 21

Until the 19th century

• 1522 - Mihrimah (d. 1578 ), daughter of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I and Alexandra Anastasia Lisowska Sultan (Roksolany).
• 1666 - Ogu Soray (d. 1728 ), Japanese enlightener, reformer, leader of the Confucians.
• 1763 - Jean Paul (real name Johann Paul Friedrich Richter ; d. 1825 ), German writer.
• 1768 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (d. 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist.
• 1785 - Henry Kirk White (d. 1806 ), English poet.

XIX century

• 1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia (d. 1872 ), Mexican politician, national hero of Mexico .
• 1809 - Fedor Koni (d. 1879 ), Russian playwright, theater critic, theater historian, memoirist, translator.
• 1813 - Timothy Granovsky (d. 1855 ), Russian historian- medievalist , ideologist of Westernism , professor at Moscow University.
• 1825 - Alexander Mozhaysky (d. 1890 ), Russian inventor, one of the pioneers of aviation.
• 1834 - Vasily Mikhailovsky (d. 1910 ), Orthodox priest, theologian, poet, chairman of the St. Petersburg Society of sobriety.
• 1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (d. 1881 ), Russian composer.
• 1840 - Francis Bogushevich (d. 1900 ), Belarusian poet, one of the initiators of new Belarusian literature.
• 1854 - Leo Taxille (d. 1907 ), French journalist-atheist.
• 1864 - Nikolai Chkheidze (d. 1926 ), Russian and Georgian politician.
• 1877 - Maurice Farman (d. 1964 ), French aviation pioneer, creator of the world's first passenger aircraft.
• 1879 - Asmik (real name Tagush Sergeyevna Hakobyan ; d. 1947 ), Armenian actress.
• 1880 - Nikolai Maksimov (d. 1952 ), Soviet botanist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• 1882 - Nikolai Gusev (d. 1967 ), Russian Soviet literary critic, personal secretary of L.N. Tolstoy .
• 1883 - Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko (executed in 1938 ), Russian revolutionary, Soviet party-state and military leader.
• 1888 - Alexey Stanchinsky (d. 1914 ), Russian composer and pianist.
• 1889 - Alexander Vertinsky (d. 1957 ), artist, author and performer of songs, laureate of the Stalin Prize .
• 1891 - Alexander Gorbatov (d. 1973 ), Soviet military leader, army general (1955), Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1945 ).
• 1892 - Alexander Malyshkin (d. 1938 ), Russian Soviet writer.

XX century

• 1920
  • Georg Ots (d. 1975 ), Estonian singer and actor ("Mr. X"), People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Eric Romer (d. 2010 ), French filmmaker.
• 1925 - Peter Brook , English film and theater director.
• 1926
  • Alexander Vokach (d. 1989 ), theater and film actor, theater director, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Andre Delvo (d. 2002 ), Belgian filmmaker.
• 1927
  • Stanislav Neygauz (d. 1980 ), pianist, teacher, people's artist of the RSFSR.
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher (d. 2016 ), German politician and statesman.
• 1929 - Yuri Mushketik (d. 2019 ), Ukrainian writer, head of the Union of Writers of Ukraine.
• 1930 - Simon Schnol , Soviet and Russian biophysicist, historian of science.
• 1932 - Walter Hilbert , American physicist, biochemist, molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (1980).
• 1942 - Francoise Dorleac (d. 1967 ), French film actress, older sister Catherine Deneuve .
• 1946
  • Timothy Dalton , an English film actor, one of the performers of the role of James Bond .
  • Ray Dorset , English musician, founder and frontman of Mungo Jerry .
• 1950
  • Sergey Lavrov , Russian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
  • Roger Hodgson , a British rock musician, singer, songwriter, member and co-founder of Supertramp .
• 1957 - Yousef Rzuga , Arab prose writer and poet.
• 1958 - Gary Oldman , English film actor and director.
• 1959 - Nobuo Uematsu , Japanese composer.
• 1960 - Ayrton Senna (d. 1994 ), Brazilian racing driver, three-time Formula 1 world champion.
• 1961 - Lothar Matteus , German football player, world champion (1990).
• 1962
  • Matthew Broderick , American film and theater actor, film director.
  • Mehdi Jomaa , Tunisian politician, Prime Minister of Tunisia (since 2013).
• 1967
  • Maxim Reality , member of the English group " The Prodigy ".
  • Yunas Petter Berggren , a Swedish musician, singer, composer, member and co-founder of Ace of Base .
• 1972 - Boris Mironov , Soviet and Russian hockey player, Olympic silver medalist (1998).
• 1980
  • Ronaldinho , Brazilian soccer player, world champion (2002).
  • Derik Whibley , vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian punk band Sum 41 .
• 1989 - Jordi Alba , Spanish footballer, European champion (2012).
• 1991 - Antoine Griezmann , French football player, world champion (2018).
• 1992 - Karolina Plishkova , Czech tennis player.

See also: Category: March 21 dead

Until the 20th century.

• 1556 - Thomas Cranmer (b. 1489 ), leader of the English Reformation, from 1533 the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1648 - , (p. 1571 ), Italian rabbi , poet and theologian , compiler of the Hebrew dictionary.
• 1772 - Alexander Kokorinov (b. 1726 ), Russian architect, first director of the Imperial Academy of Arts .
• 1843 - Robert Southey (b. 1774 ), English poet and author of biographies.
• 1871 - Fedor Reshetnikov (b. 1841 ), Russian writer (Podlipovtsi).
• 1891 - Joseph Johnston (b. 1807 ), Brigadier General of the US Army and Confederate Army General during the Civil War .

XX century

• 1902 - Wilhelm Ine (b. 1821 ), German historian.
• 1910 - Felix Nadar (b. 1820 ), French photographer, cartoonist, founder of photojournalism, the first in the world to make aerial photography.
• 1920 - Lev Lopatin (b. 1855 ), Russian idealist philosopher and psychologist, professor at Moscow University .
• 1936 - Alexander Glazunov (b. 1865 ), Russian composer, conductor, music and public figure, director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory .
• 1938 - John Bates Clark (b. 1847 ), American economist.
• 1939 - Ewald Aav (b. 1900 ), Estonian composer.
• 1957 - Charles Kay Ogden (b. 1889 ), English writer, linguist, creator of simplified English Basic English
• 1958 - Cyril Kornblat (b. 1923 ), American science fiction writer .
• 1981 - Mark Donskoy (b. 1901 ), film director, screenwriter, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1985 - Michael Redgrave (b. 1908 ), British film and theater actor, director, writer.
• 1987 - Robert Preston (b. 1918 ), American actor.
• 1991 - Leo Fender (b. 1909 ), American guitar master.
• 1998 - Galina Ulanova (born 1910 ), Soviet prima ballerina .

21st Century

• 2002 - Nicky de Saint-Fall (b. 1930 ), French theater artist, sculptor, filmmaker.
• 2003 - Metropolitan Gideon (b. 1929 ), Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , in 1990-2003 Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz .
• 2004 - Lyudmila Cherina (b. 1924 ), French ballerina and actress of Circassian origin.
• 2009 - Vladimir Kuchmiy (b. 1948 ), sports journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the Sport Express newspaper.
• 2011 - Nikolai Andrianov (b. 1952 ), Soviet gymnast, multiple champion of the world, Europe and the USSR .
• 2012
  • Tonino Guerra (b. 1920 ), Italian poet, writer, screenwriter.
  • Nikolai Nekrasov (b. 1932 ), chief conductor and artistic director of the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 2013 - Chinua Achebe (b. 1930 ), Nigerian writer.
• 2015
  • Jürgen Ingmann (b. 1925 ), Danish guitarist, winner of the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest in a duet with his wife Greta .
  • Alberta Watson (b. 1955 ), Canadian film and television actress.

• If the clouds are high and floating across the sky quickly, then the weather will be good.
• If in the March snowstorm snow falls on the fields in waves and mounds, this promises a good harvest of vegetables in the garden and spring bread ^[9] .
• It will be time for the willow to get silver ^[10] .

• Holidays, city days, significant events on March 21
• March 21 in Russian history