March 21

People born on this day are Aries.

On this day in history01

1968
Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
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1970
The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
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1970
San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event.
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1980
Cold War: American President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
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1985
Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
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1989
Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people.
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1990
Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
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1994
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
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1999
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
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2000
Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
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2006
The social media site Twitter (now officially named X) is founded.
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2022
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.
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