On this day: March 21

National days on this date

• NowruzThe spring and new year festival celebrated with feasts and public festivities across the Turkic world.

Events

1. 1779 Treaty of Aynalıkavak 1779 treaty between the Ottoman and Russian Empires

Births

1. 1879 Hasmik Armenian actress (1879–1947)
2. 1885 Elihan Tore Saghuni President of the Second East Turkestan Republic
3. 1906 Samad Vurgun Azerbaijani-Soviet writer (1906-1956)
4. 1941 Abdulla Oripov Uzbekistani poet
5. 1980 Andrey Kashechkin Kazakhstani road racing cyclist

Deaths

1. 1938 Mirza Davud Huseynov Soviet politician (1894–1938)