21 Amordad · Ameretat 1418

Events on this day

• Krishna Janmashtami · Janmashtami

  Hindu · Cultural

  Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

• Parsi New Year (Navroz, Shahenshahi) · Navroz

  Zoroastrian · Cultural

  The New Year of the Parsis of India on the Shahenshahi calendar, which has no leap day, so it has drifted from the spring equinox to mid-August and comes a day earlier every four years.

Other events

• Dormition Fast (new calendar) · Day 12
• Rogation of Mary (Fast of Mary) · Baouta d-Mart Maryam · Day 12

Facts

• Day 145 of 1418
• 220 days left
• Zodiac sign: Leo · Asad