March 22, 1981 (Sunday)
- Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa became the first person from Mongolia to travel into outer space, launched on Soyuz 39 along with Vladimir Dzhanibekov. The two cosmonauts returned to earth after almost 8 days on the Salyut 6 space station.
- Born: Shawn Mims, American rapper (This Is Why I'm Hot), in New York City
- Died: Jack McCain, 70, commander of Pacific forces in Vietnam War, and father of U.S. Senator John McCain; while returning from Europe; and Jumbo Elliot, 65, American track and field coach
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)