EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
March 21
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Day 79 of 2026 | Week 12 | 280 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.
The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others.
The social media site Twitter (now officially named X) is founded.
Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people.
Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships.
Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Count of Orange-Nassau
American actor (Henry Danger)
American singer-songwriter "Million Dollar Baby"
American actress (Yellowjackets)
Indian actor (Life of Pi
American basketball player and sports commentator (1st black woman host for ESPN radio show)
Czech tennis player (US Open 2016 runner-up; Wimbledon 2021 runner-up; Federation Cup 2015
German dance-pop singer (Monrose - "Shame"; solo - "The Way I Like It")
British pop singer (The Saturdays - "What About Us")
French racing car driver
American baseball player (1st to win Silver Slugger Award in NL and AL)
Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41 - "Fat Lip")
Norwegian cross-country skier
Australian broadcast journalist
"K-Fed"
🎯 yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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