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Horoscope
Zodiac signs are based on the position of the sun at the time of your birth. We are currenly in Aries
21st March 2025 - 19th April 2025.
21st March 2025 - 19th April 2025.
So if your a Aries, here is your horoscope for today:
Nothing is too hot for you to handle, but why do you insist on burning your hand when you don't have to, Aries? Are you trying to prove to someone that you can take the heat without being affected by it? You can get burned just as easily as anyone else even if you deny it. Do things for you and not to prove something to other people, especially when it comes to matters of love and romance.
On this day in...
See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.
2006
2006 – At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
2005
2005 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.
2003
2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
2001
2001 – Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.
1999
1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
1994
1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
1990
1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1979
1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by one vote, precipitating a general election.
1979
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
1978
1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1970
1970 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.
1969
1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1968
1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.
1965
1965 – An Mw 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.
1961
1961 – ČSA Flight 511 crashes in Igensdorf, Germany, killing 52.
1959
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1949
1949 – United States President Harry S Truman fires James Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
1946
1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1942
1942 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
1941
1941 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.
1939
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1933
1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1920
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1918
1918 – Finnish Civil War: On the so-called "Bloody Maundy Thursday of Tampere", the Whites force the Reds to attack the city center, where the city's fiercest battles being fought in Kalevankangas with large casualties on both sides. During the same day, an explosion at the Red headquarters of Tampere kills several commanders.
1918
1918 – General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector. Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over an entire sector on its own, which it held longer than any other American division-occupied sector alone for a period of three months".
1910
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille.
1862
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
1860
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1854
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1842
1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
1814
1814 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels.
1809
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
1802
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
1801
1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
1795
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1776
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1745
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the Battle of Vilshofen, Austrian forces defeat French forces.
1566
1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1065
1065 – The Great German Pilgrimage, which had been under attack by Bedouin bandits for three days, is rescued by the Fatimid governor of Ramla.
364
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
193
193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.
AD 3
AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.