🎂 Benito Juárez is born (1806)
Where: Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico
📅 On This Day: March 21
March 21, 1806: Benito Juárez is born. Benito Juárez was born in 1806 to an Indigenous Zapotec family in Guelatao, a mountain village in Oaxaca, Mexico. As a boy he herded sheep and did not speak Spanish, but he kept studying and became President of Mexico. Mexico takes a holiday for his birthday on the third Monday of March.
✨ More events on this day
- 1768 🔬 Mathematician Joseph Fourier was born in France; he studied how heat moves and was among the first to explain how air keeps Earth warm, the greenhouse effect.
- 1866 🚀 Astronomer Antonia Maury was born; at Harvard she sorted the light of hundreds of stars and helped show which stars are giants and which are dwarfs.
- 1965 🚀 NASA launched Ranger 9, which took close-up pictures of the Moon all the way down to its crash landing, shown live on American television.
🧠 Question of the day
What did Juárez do as a boy?
- He herded sheep
- He sailed ships
- He sold paintings
Show the answer
Answer: He herded sheep
🎂 Landmarks that opened on March 21
🐾 World day: International Day of Forests
About 80% of land animals and plants live in forests. The UN set this day to protect them.
Questions
What happened on March 21?
March 21, 1806: Benito Juárez is born. It happened in Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Which landmarks opened on March 21?
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (opened 2014).
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