Talk:March 21
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March 21: 200th birthday of Benito Juárez (pictured), a Fiesta Patria in Mexico; World Poetry Day; Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í calendar.
- 1556 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England.
- 1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.
- 1933 - The construction of the first Nazi German concentration camp at Dachau was completed.
- 1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
- 1990 - Formerly known as South-West Africa, Namibia gained independence from South Africa, with Sam Nujoma swearing in as the first President.
Recent days: March 20 – March 19 – March 18
PREVIOUS ARTICLE TEXT:"March 21 is also the usual date of the vernal equinox (first day of spring) in the Northern Hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox (first day of autumn) in the Southern Hemisphere." CORRECTION: It should be noted that OVER 90% of the recent occurrances of the Vernal Equinox have fallen on MARCH 20th for persons living in the US' Eastern Standard Time zone. earrach
