March
The month of March celebrates these events:
American Red Cross Month Music in our Schools Month
National Craft Month Youth Art Month
National Frozen Food Month National Noodle Month
National Nutritional Month Woman's History Month
First week is Canada Pharmacy Awareness Wee
First week is American Camping Week
First week is Agricultural Week
March 4th-10th is Lutheran Schools Week
Second week is Girl Scout Week
Second week is Bubble Gum Week
Second week is Chocolate Week
Third Week is National Wildlife Week
Third week is National Sports Trivia Week
Fourth week is Art Week
March 18th-25th is Clean Your Closet Week
1st National Pig Day
1st Peanut Butter Lover's Day
1st St. David's Day (Arch Bishop in Celtic church in Wales (6th century)
and also Patron Saint of Wales)
1st Yellowstone National Park (1st U.S. National Park, established)
1st
Share a Smile Day
2nd Dr Seuss's Birthday (born in 1904)
2nd Old Stuff Day
2nd Texas Independence Day
3rd National Anthem Day (the Star Spangled Banner was adopted
by Congress as the national anthem in 1931)
3rd
I Want You To
Be Happy Day
4th First meeting of Congress (met in New York City in 1789)
5th Mother-in-Law's Day
5th Siege of the Alamo ended (San Antonio, Texas in 1836)
6th Oreo Cookies for Sale (on sale for first time in 1912)
6th Michelangelo's Birthday (born in1475)
6th Dentist's Day
7th Monopoly Day
7th Mardi Gras
7th Telephone Patented (in 1876)
8th Ash Wednesday
8th Farmer's Day
8th Working Woman's Day
9th Barbie's Birthday (Barbie doll was introduced in1959)
10th First Paper Money issued (first issued in 1862)
10th Harriet Tubman Day
10th Salvation Army Day
11th Johnny Appleseed Day
11th Camp Fire Girl's Day
12th First Library Opened
12th Girl Scout Day (Girl Scouts founded in 1912)
13th Good Samaritan Day
13th Pluto Discovered (discovered in 1930)
13th Uranus Discovered (discovered in 1781)
14th Casey Jones Birthday (born in 1864)
14th Lewis & Clark begin their explorations
15th Ides of March
16th Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
17th Rubber Band Invented
17th Saint Patrick's Day
(all you ever wanted to know about St. Patrick's Day)
18th First Walk in Space (in 1965)
20th Big Bird's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)
20th National Quilting Day
20th Spring Begins
21st Children's Poetry Day
21st First Day of Spring
21st National Astrology Day
21st National Teenager's Day
22nd National Goof Off Day
22nd As Young As You Feel Day
22nd Sing-Out Day
22nd World Water Day
23rd Toast Day (Nellie Melba revealed her Melba Toast recipe)
24th Agriculture Day
25th Pecan Day (on this day in 1775, George Washington planted pecan trees
at his home in Mt. Vernon; some still survive today)
26th Make Up You Own Holiday Day
27th World Theatre Day
28th Respect Your Cat Day
29th Coca-Cola was invented (invented in 1886)
29th Vietnam Veteran's Day
30th Alaska purchased (purchased from Russia in 1867)
30th Doctor's Day
30th Take A Walk In The Park Day
30th Pencil with Eraser patented (patented in 1858 by Hyman Lipman of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
31st First Map of the U.S. patented
31st Tater Day
31st Bunsen Burner Day
31st Eiffel Tower opened (Paris, France in 1889)
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Little Sayings: hundreds of aphorisms listed by categories
Poems: just a few of my favorites
Jellybeans: little bit of this and that...fun pages
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Updated 6/26/07