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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:
Today is a terrific day for you, Aries. You finally seem to have a grasp on your thought processes and inner emotions. You will feel extra sensitive and loving, and people will be drawn to you because of it. You're able to look at your feelings in a rational, levelheaded manner instead being at the mercy of your wildly fluctuating emotions.
On this day in...
See what happened on this day in history. Click on a year to learn more.
2024
2024 – The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing 6 people.
2017
2017 – Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
2010
2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
2005
2005 – Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
1998
1998 – During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
1997
1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1991
1991 – Singapore Airlines Flight 117 is hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport.
1991
1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1982
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
1981
1981 – Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
1979
1979 – An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 10.
1979
1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
1975
1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1971
1971 – East Pakistan, then province of Pakistan, declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh; the Bangladesh's War of Independence begins.
1970
1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
1967
1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1958
1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1958
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1955
1955 – Pan Am Flight 845/26 ditches in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, killing four.
1954
1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
1945
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1942
1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1939
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1934
1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
1931
1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1931
1931 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1922
1922 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1917
1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1915
1915 – The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1913
1913 – First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1896
1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.
1885
1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1871
1871 – The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
1839
1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1830
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1812
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1812
1812 – An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
1700
1700 – William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea.
1697
1697 – Safavid government troops take control of Basra.
1651
1651 – Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José is pushed south by strong winds, subsequently it wrecks in the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos.
1640
1640 – The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe.
1636
1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1552
1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
1484
1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1351
1351 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights.
1344
1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1244
1244 – The crown of Aragon and the crown of Castile agree in the Treaty of Almizra on the limits of their respective expansion into al-Andalus.
1169
1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1027
1027 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1021
1021 – The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah.
624
624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration.
590
590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.