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| MARCH is . . . Spring Month, Academy Awards Month, Frozen Food Month, Humorists Are Artists Month, National Furniture Refinishing Month, American Red Cross Month, Mental Retardation Month, National Nutrition Month, National Flour Month, National Peanut Month, Philatelic Literature Month, Youth Art Month, Cataract Awareness Month, National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month, National Craft Month, National Hobby Month, National Professional Social Work Month, National Women's History Month, Rosacea Awareness Month, Music in Our Schools Month, National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month, National Feminine Empowerment Month, National Noodle Month, National "On-Hold" Month, National Sauce Month, Poison Prevention Awareness Month, National "Talk With Your Teen About Sex" Month |
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| 1st Week | 2nd Week | ||
| Return the Borrowed Book Week American Camping Week National Aardvark Week Help Someone See Week National Volunteers of America Week Universal Human Beings Week Surfside Salutes Canada Week TV Turn-Off Week National Women's History Week Save Your Vision Week Chamorro Week (Guam) National PTA Drug & Alcohol Awareness Week |
Music in Our Schools Week American Camp Week Garden Book Week National Proscrastination Week Cycle Week Fun Mail Week Girl Scout Week National Lutheran Schools Week Bubble Gum Week National School Breakfast Week Chocolate Week National Surveyor's Week Newspaper in Education Week National Professional Pet Sitters Week | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | Children & Hospitals Week National Wildlife Week American Chocolate Week National Poison Prevention Week Camp Fire Boys & Girls Week National Free Paper Week World Humanist Week National Manufacturing Week |
Art Week National Agriculture Week American Chocolate Week |
| March Movable Daily Holidays | |||
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| Day | Holiday | ||
| 1st Sunday | Vasaloppet (Sweden) Girl Scout Sabbath | ||
| 1st Saturday | Iditarod (dogsled race) begins | ||
| 1st Monday | Discovery Day (Guam) | ||
| 1st Tuesday | Fat Tuesday Town Meeting Day (Vermont) | ||
| 1st Friday | World Day of Prayer Lide (Cornwall, UK) | ||
| 2nd Sunday | Holmenkellen Day (Winter Festival; Norway) | ||
| 2nd Sunday in Lent | Mid-Lent Sunday Braggot Sunday (Lancashire, UK) | ||
| 2nd Monday | Commonwealth Day (Canada & UK) formerly Empire Day | ||
| 2nd Friday | Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest (British Columbia, Canada) | ||
| 3rd Monday | Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing | ||
| 4th Monday | Academy Awards | ||
| 4th Tuesday | National Organize Your Home Office Day | ||
| 4th Sunday in Lent | Mothering Sunday (UK) Bretzelsonndeg (Pretzel Sunday: Luxembourg) Laetare Sunday Simnel Sunday | ||
| 5th Sunday in Lent | Care Sunday Passion Sunday Patient Sunday Carling Sunday | ||
| Vernal Equinox | 1st Day of Spring Earth Day Bock Beer Day National Agriculture Day Ostara (Wiccan) Proposal Day Snowman Burning Master Gardener Day | ||
| Sunday before Easter | Palm Sunday Fig Sunday Fig Pudding Day | ||
| Between Palm Sunday & Easter | Ra-Ra (Haiti) | ||
| Wednesday before Easter | Spy Wednesday | ||
| Thursday before Easter | Maundy Thursday Sheer Thursday (fka Skire Thursday) Procession of the Addolorata (Italy) | ||
| Friday before Easter | Good Friday Long Rope Day Procession of the Mysteries | ||
| Saturday before Easter | Easter Even | ||
| Saturday or Sunday nearest vernal Equinox | Marzenna (Poland) | ||
| 7 days leading up to Easter starting on Palm Sunday and ending on Easter | Holy Week Great Week | ||
| Day before Easter | Vigil of Easter Procession of Icon of St. Lazarus (Cyprus) | ||
| 1st Sunday after 1st full moon or after the Vernal Equinox (always between 3/22 & 4/25) | Easter Pasch Day (Scotland) | ||
| Monday after Easter | Ball Day Anden Paaskedag (Denmark) Emaishen (Luxembourg) Pace Monday (aka Pace Day; Scotland) | ||
| Monday after Coptic Easter | Sham al-Neseem (Egypt) | ||
| Monday after Easter | Festival of the Sardine (Spain) | ||
| Sunday after Easter | Quasimodo Sunday Low Sunday Low Easterday | ||
| 2nd Tuesday after Easter | Hock Tuesday (aka Hock Day) Tutti Day (Berkshire, UK) | ||
| 2 weeks after Shrove Tuesday | Fasnacht (Switzerland) | ||
| Last Sunday | Summer Daylight-Saving Time begins (Europe) | ||
| Last Monday | Seward's Day (Alaska) | ||
| Week before Holy Week (Week of Easter) | Dumb Week (Greece) Passion Week | ||
| March Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| Time Period | Holiday |
| 9th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month (@ Mar/Apr) | Ram Navami |
| 10th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month (@ Mar/Apr) | Meenakshi Kalyana |
| 12th Day of Rabi I, 3rd Islamic month | Maulid al-Nabi |
| 14th Day of NIsan, 7th Jewish month (not including the intercalary month) | Passover begins |
| 1st Day of 1st month of Ibo calendar, set as vernal equinox | Ibu Afo Festival (Nigeria) |
| Full Moon Day of 3rd lunar month | Macha Puja Day (Thailand) |
| 15th Day of 1st Moon of lunar calendar | Lantern Festival and Tourism Day (Taiwan) |
| 19th Day of 2nd Moon of lunar calendar | Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy (Taiwan) |
| Sometime in March | International Leisure Suit Convention |
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| 1 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Sandro Botticelli Fredric Chopin Glenn Miller Moses (1560 BCE) Karen Knezevich David Niven Ron Howard Harry Belafonte Nina Hartley Dmitri Mitropoulos Augustus Saint-Gaudens Ralph Ellison (1914) Herb Alpert Robert Conrad Catherine Bach Roger Daltrey Judith Rossner Richard "Purdy" Wilbur Oskar Kokoschka Dinah Shore Rudolf Diesel Joan Hackett Ralph J. Gleason Pete Rozelle Alan Thicke Deke Slayton Robert Clary Harry Caray Myrle Evers (1933) Dirk Benedict Robert Bork John B. Breaux Cascellius of Rome (1st Dentist; 40 CE) |
Matronalia (Old Roman Marriage Festival) Chalanda Marz (Switzerland) St. David's Day (patron of poets, Wales) Hollow Earth Day Whuppity Scoorie Day (Lanark Lanarkshire, Scotland) Labour Day (Tasmania) St. SWithbert's Day (patron against angina) Heroes' Day (Paraguay) Pinzon Day (Bayona, Spain) Old Roman New Year's Day National Fruit Compote Day Purgatory Banquet (Italy) Water-Drawing Festival begins (Japan) National Pig Day Rice Festival (Thailand) International Day of the Seal Elves, Woodworkers, and Mechanics' Day (Fairy) Samiljol Independence Movement Day (Korea) |
| March 1 Events | 1st Book published in English Ohio became the 17th state (1803) Yellowstone National Park, 1st US National Park, established Nebraska became the 37th state (1867) Peace Corp established (1961) Articles of Confederation ratified (1777) 1st State abolished slavery (Pennsylvania; 1780) Nostradamus' Book of Centuries published (1555) Bikini Atoll destroyed by 1st Hydrogen Bomb test (1954) Lindbergh baby kidnapped 1st Typewriter Manual published Magellan discovered Guam 1st US Census authorized (1790) Bank of England became public (1946) Oswego County, New York founded (1816) 1st Person parachuted from an airplane (1912) Chicago's You've Made Me So Very Happy released A Tree Grows in Brooklyn premiered Essex County, New York founded (1799) Weather Underground bombed US Capitol building (1971) US Civil Rights Act passed (1875) Last Emperor of China coronnated (1934) Charlie Chaplin's coffin stolen (1978) L.B.J. saw light at the end of the tunnel Wabash County, Indiana founded (1835) Avery Brewing Co. founded (Colorado; 1994) Bardo Rodeo brewery founded (Virginia; 1993) Boardwalk Bistro brewery founded (Texas; 1994) Boundary Bay Brewing founded (Washington; 1995) Butterfield Brewing Co. founded (California; 1989) Conners Brewery founded (Ontario; 1991) Hoffbrau Steak & Brewery founded (Texas; 1995) Hub City Brewery founded (Texas; 1995) Indianapolis Brewing Co. founded (Indiana; 1989) Les Brasseurs G.M.T. brewery founded (Quebec; 1988) Lowell Brewing Co. founded (Massachusetts; 1994) Mon Village Brewery founded (Quebec; 1987) Newport Beach Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) No Tomatoes Restaurant & Brewery/Great Falls Brewing Co. founded (Maine; 1987) Pavichevich Brewing Co./Acme Brewing Co. founded (Illinois; 1989) Republic Brewery founded (MH; 1993) Spring Garden Brewing Co. founded (North Carolina; 1994) Sutter Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub founded (Colorado; 1995) Triple Rock Brewery founded (California; 1986) Uinta Brewing Co. founded (Utah; 1994) |
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| 2 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel John Irving Bedrich Smetana Kurt Weill San Houston Mikhail Gorbachev Jennifer Jones Lana Wood Mel Ott DeWitt Clinton Tom Wolfe Donna Perry (Pb 11/94) Megan Leigh Jennifer Jones Mikhail Gorbachev Guy Rose Larraine Newman George Benson Naomi James Carl Schurz Lou Reed John Cullen Desi Arnaz Michael Brooks Eddie Money Melissa Burton Coray Karen Carpenter Jon Bon Jovi Doc Watson Leo XIII Russell D. Feingold Pius XII Jay Osmond |
Holy Wells Day March Nymphs' Parade (Fairy) World Day of Prayer Ceadda (Celtic God of Healing Waters) Everything Acts To Further Day Old Stuff Day Key Grip Day (Alaska) Morocco Independence Day Peasants' Day (Burma) St. Chad's Day National Banana Cream Pie Day Cotton Carnival begins (Tennessee @) St. Simplicius' Day Texas Independence Day St. Agnes of Bohemia American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (@) |
| March 2 Events | Time Magazine 1st published 1st Ballet performed King Kong premiered Texas declared itself independent from Mexico (1836) 1st Semaphore signal sent (1791) Shooting began on A Hard Days' Night 1st US School for the Blind opened (1829) Battle of Waynesboro (1865) Concorde jet 1st flew (1969) Texas seceded from the Union (1861) Aliens landed on Earth (1961; in film Men in Black, 1997) Jim Morrison charged with indecent exposure in Florida (1969) Britain severed formal ties with Australia (1986) Mount Ranier National Park established (1899) Elmer Fudd debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1940) 1st Monkey successfully cloned (1997) Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man debuted (1962) B-52 Bomber completed 1st non-stop global flight, refuelling 4 times in midair (1949) |
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| 3 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jay R.
Brooks Cyrano de Bergerac Jean Harlow Alexander Graham Bell Zoroaster Akira Fubuki George Pullman Norman Bethune Jean Harlow William Frawley Hope Marie Carlton (Pb 7/85) James Doohan Victoria Nika Zdrok (Pb 10/94) Ona Zee Jacqueline Sheen (Pb 7/90) Alan Ginsburg Fatima Whitbread William Godwin Herschel Walker Jackie Joyner-Kersee Fontaine Fox William Green Joe Stydahar Calvin Williams Arnold Newman Guy Rose Bruno Bozzetto Monte Ward David Faustino Willie Keeler Lionel Martin Tim Kazurinsky Mary Page Keller Jackie Joyner-Kersee Matthew Bunker Ridgway Thomas Otway Junior Parker Darnell Williams Martin Ritt Willie Chambers Robert Walker Umi Ryuuzaki (Rayearth Magic Knights) Princess Lee Radziwell |
I Want You To Be Happy Day Town Meeting Day Aegir (Celtic Sea Festival) Free Pass Day Marriage of the March Nymphs (Fairy) Hina Matsuri (Doll's Festival; Japan) Liberation Day (Bulgaria) Unity Day (Sudan) St. Ailred's Day Anniversary of the Throne Day (Morocco) Peach Blossom Day (Japan) Malawi Martyr's Day Bonza Bottler Day St. Cunegund (patron of Luxembourg, Lithuania) National Mulled Wine Day Den Na Nez Avismost'ya (Bulgaria) St. Winnal's Day National Anthem Day Stop the Epidemic of Police Violence Day Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day St. Guignole (patron against impotence, infertility) Ocean Beach Kite Festival (@) |
| March 3 Events | Ponce de Leon set sail looking for the Fountain of
Youth US Forest Service established Gregorian Time began Time Magazine 1st published (1923) Florida became the 27th state (1845) Missouri Compromise passed (1820) 100th Night at West Point Star-Spangled Banner proclaimed US National Anthem District of Columbia created (1791) King Kong premiered 1st Jet crashed Harry Nilsson's Without You released Sound of Music premiered Bizet's Carmen premiered (1875) 1st Child Labor Law passed Angel & the Badman premiered 1st Covered Theatre opened Stagecoach premiered Lucille Ball sued Desi Arnez for divorce (1960) 1st I.R.S. Tax imposed Birth of a Nation premiered National Academy of Sciences established Bachman's Warbler declared extinct Royal Pennsylvania Gazette 1st published Serfdom abolished in Russia Cause of Syphillis discovered (1905) US Army imported camels for use in southwest dessert (1855) Janet Jackson's Escapade reached No. 1 (1990) US Congress appropriated money to buy camels (1855) St. Lawrence County, New York founded (1882) US Double Eagle $20 & $1 gold pieces authorized Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata published (1802) Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles policemen (1991) Suicide bomber killed 18 people (Jerusalem; 1996) Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled terminally ill patients have the "right to die" (1996) US voids and nullifies every indian treaty ever made with the passing of the Indian Appropriation Act (1871) Beaver Street Brewery & Whistle Stop Cafe founded (Arizona; 1994) McGuire's Irish Pub & Brewery founded (Florida; 1989) |
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| 4 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Antonio Vivaldi Erich Leinsdorf Pearl White Catherine O'Hara Henry Raeburn Kenny Dalgleish Alan Sillitoe Knute Rockne William Boyd Casmir Pulaski Jane Goodall Benjamin Waterhouse Kevin Johnson Paula Prentiss Charles Goren Mary Wilson Barbara McNair Chris Squire Arthur "Dazzy" Vance Prince Henry the Navigator (1394) Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini Jim Clark Kay Lenz Miriam Makeba Bobby Womack Chastity Bono Alice Rivlin |
Charter Day (Pennsylvania) Holy Experiment Day This Way To the Egress Day March Dryads' Display (Fairy) Festival of Pirate Utopias Hug a GI Day St. Casmir's Day (patron of Poland, Lithuania; against plague) National Poundcake Day Old US President Inauguration day |
| March 4 Events | 1st Tavern in US opens (Boston; 1634) US Constitution in effect People Magazine 1st published (1974) Bringing Up Baby premiered Charter of Pennsylvania granted (1681) Vermont became the 14th state (1791) 1st Sunday School opened Game Laws began Cortez landed in Mexico Society of Friends founded Battle of Ile d'Aix (7 Years War; 1758) 1st Woman appointed to US Cabinet (1933) Thomas Jefferson inaugurated Harlem established Ding Ling died (1904) 1st Printed Checks issued National Lifeboat Institution founded (1824) Professional Tennis Players 1st allowed to play at Wimbledon (1968) General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila (1945) Rolling Stone's Ruby Tuesday reached No. 1 (1967) Bowling record for consecutive strikes set (33; 1976) Television Academy Hall of Fame established (1984) 1st Former President returned to Congress (John Quincy Adams; 1830) Longest Survival on a Raft began (118 2/3 days; 1973) Royal National Lifeboat Institution founded (1824) Suicide bomber killed 14 people (Tel Aviv; 1996) Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby comic strip began (1946) Ronald Reagan married Nancy Davis (1952) Dick Cavett Show debuted as a daytime show (1968) NY Daily Graphic became 1st illustrated daily newspaper (1873) Pope John Paul II got into the act by branding Salman Rusdie's Satanic Verses "blasphemous" (1989) Pierre Trudeau, 52-year old Prime Minister of Canada, married 22-year old Margaret Sinclair (1971) John Lennon makes his controversial, albeit true, statement that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" setting off ridiculous actions by religious right in US (1966) Palm Springs Brewery founded (California; 1994) |
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| 5 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Howard Pyle Antoine Cadillac Gerardus Mercator (1512) William Blackstone Dean Stockwell Hector Villa-Lobos Eugene Fodor Mariya Yamada Lorin Maazel Penn Jillette James Merritt Ives Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Frank Norris Rex Harrison Samantha Eggar Henry II Elisha Harris Augusta Gregory Rosa Luxembourg Charles Fuller James B. Sikking Paul Sand Elaine Page Michael Warren Fred Williamson Alan Greenspan Leontine T.C. Kelly Del Crandall Louis I "the Great" Andy Gibb Laurence Tisch Michael Irvin |
Stop the Clocks Day Mother-in-Law's Day Feast of Fools Multiple Personalities Day Hemlock Day National Cheese Doodle Day Alimony Equality Day Crispus Attucks Day International Day of the Seal Feast of Excited Insects (China, Korea) Wedding of the March Drayads (Fairy) St. Piran's Day (patron of miners, Cornwall) Navigium Isis (Ancient Egyptian Sailing Festival) St. Phocas of Antioch's Day (patron against snakebites) Anthesteria begins (Festiavl of Flowers & Ancestor's Ghosts Wanderings) |
| March 5 Events | Chinese Calendar 1st began (1953 BCE) Amazing Spiderman #1 published Parachute invented (by Da Vinci) Siege of the Alamo ended Hall of Fame established (1900) Boston Massacre (1770) Term "Iron Curtain" coined (1946) Air Brake patented 8 Hour, 5 Day work week began Creem Magazine 1st published Easter Seal campaign 1st began Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (Hobbit) Spitfire fighter plane 1st flew (1936) Jenny McCarthy Show debuted on MTV (1997) Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline married (1989) Joseph Stalin died of brain hemorrhage (1953) Birdseye perfected frozen food process (1930) Henry VI deposed by Duke of York (1461) John Belushi died of an overdose (1982) Cabot received a commission to discover lands for England Twins Reginald & Ronald Kray sentenced to 30 years (1966) Nazis began drafting 16-year old boys into Hitler Youth (1945) Barry Sadler's Ballad of teh Green Beret reached No. 1 (1966) 1st Old Age Pensions created (Montana & Nevada; 1923) Michael Jackson's Billie Jean reached No. 1 (1983) |
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| 6 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti Elizabeth Barrett Browning Moira Kelly Cyrano de Bergerac Rob Reiner Michelle Leahy Will Eisner Lorin Maazel Ensign Pavel Chekov L. Gordon Cooper Disck Fosbury Philip Henry Sheridan Wes Montgomery Lou Costello Cher Butler (Pb 8/85) Gabriel Garcia Marquez David Gilmour Bob Wills Aqualad Ring Lardner Oscar Straus Robert "Lefty" Grove Willie Stargell Shaquille O'Neal Kiri Te Kanawa Mary Wilson Octavio "Cookie" Rojas Thomas Masaryk Ed McMahon Anna Claypoole Peale Sarah Caldwell Jimmy Conzelman Kiki Dee Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva Christopher S. Bond Alan Greenspan William Webster Tom Arnold Amy Pietz Doug Dillard Jr. Skip Ewing Marion Barry |
Narcissus Day Bursting Day (Ireland) Festival of Mars (Old Roman God of War) Binche Festival (Belgium) French Academy Woman's Day Magellan Day (Guam) St. Fridolin's Day (patron of optometrists) Ghana Independence Day St. Martian's Day Paczki Day March Goblins' Galumphing Gala and Display (Fairy) Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas National Frozen Food Day St. Chrodegang's Day Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day National Chocolate Cheesecake Day |
| March 6 Events | American Chemical Society founded Oreo Cookies 1st for sale (Hoboken, NJ; 1912) Aspirin patented (1899) 1st College Orchestra performed Frozen Food 1st for sale 1st Electric Power Plant opened USFL established Alamo fell (1836) Voyager I flew past Jupiter (1979) 1st Steel Ship built FDR ordered all banks to close (1933) Guam discovered (1521) Verdi's La Traviata premiered (1853) Fall of the Alamo (1836) 1st Car driven in Detroit (1896) Beatles' Hey Jude went gold Nguyen Van Phred became Vietnam Envoy to UN (Doonesbury) Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, shot and paralyzed (1978) Temptations' My Girl reached No. 1 (1965) Channel Ferry overturned, drowning 200 (1987) Dred Scot decision invalidated Missouri Compromise (1857) A man was told on the Jenny Jones TV show that another man was in love with him (1995) |
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| 7 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Bill Scott (voice of Bullwinkle) Piet Mondrian Maurice Ravel Luther Burbank Stephen Hopkins David Baltimore John Heard Edwin Landseer Milton Avery Joseph Niepce Viv Richards Rik Mayall Lynn Swann Peter Wolf Ivan Lendl Koko Abe Lord Snowdon Janet Collins Willard Scott Franco Harris Janet Guthrie Alessandro Manzoni Tomas G. Masaryk Daniel J. Travanti Joseph Carter Michael Eisner Kobo Abe |
Junoalia (Old Roman Festival to Juno) Masaryk Day (Czechoslovakia) Impeachment of March Goblins (Fairy) St. Felicity's Day (patron of mothers; against infertility) Anthesteria ends St. Perpetua's Day National Crown Roast of Pork Day St. Drausius' Day (patron of champions) |
| March 7 Events | Pennsylvania Tax Rebellion 1st Jazz Record issued (1917) Dana Scully joined the X-Files (1993) Metro Weekly Newspaper 1st published Telephone patented (1876) 1st Newspaper giveaway Room with a View premiered 1st Coin-Operated Locker built Battle of Remagen Bridge 1st Whaling Expidition set sail GM bought Opel (1929) Salvador Dali Museum opened (St. Petersburg, Florida; 1982) Coca-Cola Bottler's Association formed (1914) Remagen Bridge captured by Allied troops (WW2; 19450 1st Non-stop flight from Paris to London (1912) Distinguished Service Medal established (US; 1918) Switzerland voted to give women the vote (1971) Students at Gallaudet University for the Deaf protested the election of a non-deaf president (1988) |
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| 8 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Sophocles Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach Kenneth Grahame Alan Hale Jr. Jim Bouten Mickey Dolenz Julian Lennon Cyd Charisse Kathy Shower (Pb 5/85) Louise Beavers Carl "Skoonj" Furilli Frederick William Goudy Joseph Lee Ruggiero Leoncavallo Pytor Lebedev Otto Hahn James Dean Richie Allen Lynn Redgrave Susan Clark Randy Meisner David Wilkie Sam Jaffe Claire Trevor Jim Bouten Lynn Seymour Carole Bayer Sayer Mike Lowry Charley Pride Hannah Hoes Van Buren Jim Rice Raynoma "Mayberry Liles" Gordy Singleton George F. Allen |
Farmer's Day Be Nasty Day Festival of the Earth Goddess (China) Tij Day (Nepal) St. John of God's Day (patron of booksellers, hospitals, nurses, printers; against alcoholism, heart disease) Labour Day (Victoria, Australia) St. Felix's Day Tar & Feather Day Syria Revolution Day Working Women's Day National Peanut Cluster Day St. Pontius' Day Day of No Interest to Fairies (Fairy) International Women's Day (Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Nepal, USSR) |
| March 8 Events | Combat Troops 1st arrived in Vietnam 1st Illustrated Book published (Mirror of the World; UK; 1481) Soap Opera Writers went on strike (1988) Ulysses S. Grant made commander-in-chief of Northen Armies (1864) Roberta premiered 1st Dog License issued Malcolm X split from Nation of Islam (1964) Caxton's Mirror of the World translation finished (1481) Beavis and Butthead debuted on MTV (1993) London Gangster Ronnie Kray shot rival gangster through the head in Blind Beggar Pub (1966) Police in India force 3,000 to stay indoors enforcing a ban on nude worship of a Hindu god (1988) Coca-Cola's 6-Pack Carton introduced (1923) Train crossed the 1st suspension bridge (Niagra Falls; 1855) China imposed martial law in Tibet after protests (1988) International Whaling Commission outlawed harpoon use on great whales (1982) Olivia Newton-John's Have You Ever Been Mellow? reached No. 1 (1975) |
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| 9 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Modest Mussorgsky Samuel Barber Bobby Fischer Juliet Binoche Mickey Spillane Granville Redmond Amerigo Vespucci Edward Stone Alan Ladd David Hume Kennerly Taras Shevchenko Leland Stanford Bill Beaumont Andre Courreges Raul Julia Linda Fiorentino Howard Aiken Finn Carter Paul Robeson William Corbett Yuri Gagarin Trish Van Devere Bert Campaneris Joe Franklin Eddie Foy Mickey Gilley Will Geer Brian Bosworth Vyacheslav Molotov Benito Santiago Franz Joseph Gall Joyce Van Patten Emmanuel Lewis Jeffrey Osborne |
Panic Day St. Catherine of Bologna's Day (patron of artists) Absolute Total Nihilists Bang Clang Day (Los Angeles) Rockhound Days begin Jonquil Festival 40 Saints Day St. Dominic Savio's Day (patron of choirboys, juvenile delinquents) Festival of Primal Ooze St. Pacian's Day Baron Bliss Day (Belize) St. Frances of Rome's Day (patron of motorists, widows) National Crabmeat Day St. Gregory of Nyssa's Day Wellness Permission League's Panic Day Second Day of No Interest to Fairies (Fairy) |
| March 9 Events | Beatles won 4 Grammys Queen's A Night At the Opera released Dog 1st sent in space Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac (1862) 1st V-8 Engine built French Foreign Legion founded (1831) Artificial Teeth patented Frankie Avalon's Venus reached No. 1 (1959) Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine married (1796) Kissing in public made punishable by death (Naples; 1562) Tokyo bombed by 343 Superfortresses (WW2; 1945) Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, defected to the West (1967) REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling reached No. 1 (1985) Barbara Hummel, his wife, died (1995; according to 1997 film, The Rock) A man who 3 days earlier was told on the Jenny Jones TV show that another man was in love with him, murdered that man (1995) Table Rock Brewpub & Grill founded (Idaho) |
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| 10 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Eva Herzigova Frederich Von Schlegel Bix Beiderbecke Sharon Stone Arthur Honegger Benjamin West Jeff Ament Shannon Tweed (Pb 11/81) Paul Wunderlich Lillian D. Ward John McClosky Tom Scholz Cynthia Brimhall (Pb 10/85) Barry Fitzgerald Sam Jaffe David Rabe Claire Luce Booth Marcello Malpighi Bob Greene James Herriot Dean Torrence Pamela Mason Thomas Howard Heywood Hale Brown Tamara Karsavina Ron Mix Jakob Wassermann Chuck Norris Prince Edward Alexander III |
Festival of Life in the Cracks Whoopsical Day (Fairy) Thai New Year Harriet Tubman Day Maple Sugar Festival St. Kessog's Day (patron of Scotland) Decoration Day (Liberia) St. Simplicius' Day National Blueberry Popover Day St. John Ogilvie's Day Canadian-American Days Festival (@) St. Macarius of Jerusalem's Day |
| March 10 Events | Dante's Inferno published 1st Message sent by telephone (1876) George Orwell's 1984 published US Paper Money 1st issued (1862) 42nd Street premiered 1st Old Age Home opened Salvation Army founded in US (1880) Jupiter Effect occured (1982) 1st Film shot in Hollywood (1910) Mercury Comet introduced (1960) Rings of Uranus discovered (1977) 1st Badminton Tournament held Smokey Stover comic strip began (1935) Zinn's Dinner opened (Pennsylvania) How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying premiered Christopher Columbus founded Santo Domingo (1496) Suffragette attacked Velasquez' Rokeby Venus with a Meat Cleaver at the National Gallery (London; 1914) New show Nightline named (1980) Japanese soldier found hiding on Lubang Island in Philippines, believing World War 2 was still going (1974) Mississippi finally passed legislation allowing microbreweries & brewpubs in the state (1998) |
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| 11 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Douglas Adams Vannevar Bush Henry Cowell Thomas Hastings Raoul Walsh Tina Louise Nina Hartley Lulu Sam Donaldson Dock Ellis Kenneth Hayes Miller Robert Treat Paine Dorothy Gish Antonin Scalia Marius Petipa Lawrence Welk Rupert Murdoch Torquato Tasso Malcolm Campbell Bobby McFerrin Nigel Lawson Cathy Lynn Rowland (Pb 8/71) Ralph Abernathy Harold Wilson Robert Adam Mosbacher Joey Buttafuoco |
Worship of Tools Day (India) Debunking Day Feast of Guari (Hindu Married Women's Feast;no widows) Camp Fire Girls Day Johnny Appleseed Day St. Sophronius' Day Human Services Day Bunching of Fairies for the Second Flight (Fairy) St. Hercules' Day Flower Show Day Birthday of the God of Literature (China) St. Oengus' Day National Oatmeal-Nut Waffles Day St. Constantine's Day National Anti-Drugs Day St. Eulogius or Cordova's Day (patron of carpenters, coppersmiths) |
| March 11 Events | Romeo and Juliet married Witchcraft Trials began 1st Newspaper Column published Sitting Pretty premiered 1st Daily Newspaper published (1702) Bureau of Indian Affairs established 1st Electric Oven for sale Mary Shelley's Frankenstein published (1818) Bank of Canada established (1935) Niagra County, New York founded (1808) 1st Automobile hold-up Heath Hen declared extinct Boner's Ark comic strip began (1968) Paul McCartney knighted (1997) Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh premiered (1977) Save the Redwoods Foundation formed (1918) Charles Van Doren threw a game of Twenty-One on national TV (1957) Pound Notes replaced by pound coins (UK; 1988) 13-year old Jennifer Capriati played her 1st pro tennis match (1990) Confederate States adopted their own constitution (1861) General MacArthurs makes his famous "I Shall Return" remark while leaving the Philippines (1942) 1st Women's Medical College incorporated (1850) British Luddites attack machines meant to replace them (1811) Johnson Beer Co. founded (North Carolina; 1995) Magic City Brewery founded (Alabama; 1995) |
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| 12 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jack Kerouac Edward Albee Simon Newcomb Jane Delano Ron Jeremy Kemal Ataturk Clement Studebaker Gabriele D'Annunzio Debra Jensen (Pb 1/78) Mstislav Rostropovich Barbara Feldon George Berkeley Charles Boycott Paul Kantner Wally Schirra Jr. Henry the Navigator Al Jarreau Paul Kantner Gordon MacRae John Aubrey Henry Perkin Vaslav Nijinsky Andrew Young Jane Appleton Pierce Daryl Strawberry Sandra Edwards (Pb 3/57) James Taylor Kent Conrad Graham Coxon Dale Murphy John D. Waihee III Marlon Jackson Liza Minelli |
Martyrdom of Hypatia Girl Scout Day Moshoeshoe's Day (Lesotho) Huddling for Fairies of the Third Flight (Fairy) St. Gregory the Great's Day Alfred Hitchcock Day Mauritius Independence Day St. Fina's Day National Baked Scallops Day |
| March 12 Events | 1st Library opened Gregorian Chants named 1st Fireside Chat given (1933) Girl Scouts founded (1912) Destruction of the Ring (Hobbit) Chelsea Hosptial founded (1682) Anne Frank died in a concentartion camp (1945) 1st Magazine article written about dope smoking (1938) Dennis the Menace debuted US Post Office established (1789) 1st Uniformed Police Force started Tutu 1st worn Canberra made capital of Australia (1913) Germany annexed Austria (1938) 1st Parachute jump from a plane Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman (1969) John Wanamaker's, 1st department store, opened (Philadelphia; 1877) 1st Exhibition of Cubist Art (Paris; 1909) Lithuania declared independence from USSR (1990) John Lennon and Harry Nilsson kicked out of an L.A. bar 1st Automobile accident involving 2 cars both equiped with air bags (1990) Pointcast Network opened (1997) Otter Creek Brewing founded (Vermont; 1991) |
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| 13 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Johann Wyss Akira Fubuki Hugh Walpole Uncle Sam Hugo Wolf Joseph Priestley Percival Lowell Lorenzo Delmonico Sammy Kaye Debi Nicole Johnson (Pb 10/84) Helen "Callaghan" St. Aubin Walter Annenberg Maximilien Luce Will Clark Frank "Home Run" Baker Daniel Lambert Neil Sedaka Andy Bean Vance Johnson Deborah Raffin George McAfee Doug Harvey Abigail Powers Filmore Don "The Weasel" Bessent Robin Duke Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741) L. Ron Hubbard |
Religious Freedom Day Burgsonndeg (Luxembourg) Purification Feast (Bali) Feast of Tropicalismo JEWEL Day (Grenada) Good Samaritan Involvement Day St. Ansovinus' Day (patron of crops, harvests) Zambia Youth Day Runic half-month of Tyr ends St. Nikephoros' Day (Greece) Chelsea Antiques Fair (UK; @) St. Nicephorus' Day National Cocoanut Tort Day Sticking Very Close Together for Fairies of the Fourth and Fifth Flights (Fairy) |
| March 13 Events | Gutenberg Bible printed Harvard founded 1st Strip Tease performed (Paris; 1894) Uranus discovered (1781) 1st Perfect 300 Bowling Game bowled 12 Mayan temples destroyed by Spanish Conquistadors Standard Time established Meet John Doe premiered Earmuffs patented Pluto discovered (1930) Beatles' Eight Days A Week reached No. 1 (1965) Idaho 1st issued license plates (1913) Arab Oil Embargo ended (1974) 1st Transatlantic Radio broadcast Tammy Wynette and George Jones divorced (1975) Charles De Gaulle Airport opened (Paris; 1974) Tammy Wynette & George Jones' divorce was final (1975) Grenada Revolution began (1979) Nazi Germany invaded Austria (1938) Halley's Comet passed near the Earth and was noticed for the 1st time (1758) 79-year old Pablo Picasso married his 37-year old model, Jacqueline Rocque (1961) Father Eusebio Kino began his missionary work in US Southwest, introducing the Spanish horse to America (1687) |
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| 14 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Albert Einstein Thomas Malory Maxim Gorky Johann Strauss Georg Philip Telemann Les Brown Edward Abbey Frank Borman Billy Crystal Michael Caine Janis Schmitt (Pb 2/78) Casey Jones Ferdinand Hodler Reginald Marsh Adolph Gottlieb Thomas Hart Benton Quincy Jones David Byrne Isadore Mudge Hank Ketchum Walter Parazaider Lucy Hobbs Taylor Steve Kanaly Diane Arbus Kirby Puckett Rita Tushingham Tessa Sanderson Adrian Zmed Victor Emmanuel II |
National Potato Chip Day Vaturius Mamurius (Festival to Armor) Runic half-month of Beorc (birch tree) begins Feast of Hyperborea St. Lubin's Day (patron against rheumatism) Pilgrimage to the Dragon Pagoda (Rangoon, Burma) Moth-Er Days St. Benedict's Day (Eastern) Fallas de San Jose (Spain) Vienna International Spring Festival (@) |
| March 14 Events | 1st Bird Reservation opened Cotton Gin patented (1794) 1st Town Meeting War Bonds authorized Iron Man 1st appeared Lewis & Clark began their explorations Battle of New Berne Gung Ho premiered Us adopted the gold standard (1900) Spain expelled 150,000 Jews (1492) Dennis the Menace comic strip began (1951) Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado International Copyright Act passed (1891) Stock Market Crash (NYC; 1907) New English Bible published (1961) Snoopy walked on the Moon (Peanuts; 1969) Burt Reynolds posed nude in Cosmopolitan Magazine National Civil Liberties Council founded (UK; 1934) Gaseous Weiner debuted on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1996) Andorra voted to end its feudal system and adopted a parliamentary government (1993) Charles II granted William Penn charter for Pennsylvania to pay off debts owed to Penn's father (1681) Jack Russell Brewing Co. founded (California; 1997) |
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| 15 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Harry James Bobcat Goldwaith Lightin' Hopkins Andrew Jackson Edvard Strauss Donna Smith (Pb 3/85) Augusta Gregory Carey MacDonald Ry Cooder Alan Bean William Lamb Nicolas Lacaille J.J. Roberts Wallace Irwin Mary Stratton Liberty Bailey Nancy Cameron (1/74) Judd Hirsch Sly Stone Mike Love Terry Cummings Mickey Hatcher Dolores Del Monte (Pb 3/54) Norm Van Brocklin Bobby Bonds George Brent Dee Snider Terrance Trent d'Arby Federico Pena Jimmy Swaggart |
Season of Discord begins (Discordian) Ides of March Everything You Think Is Wrong Day Dumbstruck Day (Fairy) Rhea (Greek Goddess of the Earth) Open Minded Husband's Day Rude Awakenings Day True Confessions Day Hilaria (Old Roman Spring Festival begins) Gambling Day Marduck's Festival (Ancient Mesopotamia) Feast of Esther Lifeboat Day St. Clement Hofbauer's Day Planting Ceremony of the Kikuyu (Kenya) Buzzards' Day (Ohio) St. Matrona's Day (patron against dysentery) Canberra Day (Australia) Thanksgiving (Honduras) St. Louis de Marillac's Day (patron of orphans, social workers, widows) National Pears Helene Day Turkey Vultures return to Ohio (@) |
| March 15 Events | Oxygen discovered Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BCE) Maine became the 23rd state (1820) 1st Glider tested Watts Riot (1966) 1st Blood Bank opened (1937) My Fair Lady premiered Escalator patented Three's Company debuted (1977) B.A. punched General Ludlum (Doonesbury) New London Bridge opened American Legion founded (1919) Battle of Guilford Eight Is Enough debuted (1977) Selfirdge's department store opened (London; 1909) My Lai Massacre, Vietnam (1968) Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Mora, former Italian Prime Minister (1978) Oneida County, New York founded (1798) Nicholas II of Russia abdicated (1917) Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton for the 1st time (1964) 1st Cardinal posted in US at St. Patrick's (NYC; 1875) Washington's Farewell Address to his troops Chris Elliot's 1st appearance on Late Night with David Letterman (1982) Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich, banning newpapers & kosher food (1933) Paul Shaffer accidently became the 1st person to say "fuck" on TV during an SNL skit (1980) Cincinnati Red Stocking became 1st pro baseball team (1869) Florida man waved at UFO & was hit by beam of light casuing him lose conscienciousness for several hours (1965) Matthew Vassar's Brewhouse/Dayger & Emmerson Brew Co. founded (New York; 1995) Prescott Brewing Co. founded (Arizona; 1994) Red Rock Brewing Co. founded (Utah; 1994) |
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| 16 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| James Madison Georg S. Ohm Bernardo Bertolucci Jerry Lewis Leo McKern Rene Sully Prudhomme Caroline Lucretia Herschel Robert Rossen Judge Roy Bean Alice Hoffman Isabelle Huppert Pat Nixon Rosa Bonheur George Clymer Henny Youngman Matthew Flinders Lloyd Waner Brian Mullen Kate Nelligan Nancy Wilson Daniel Patrick Moynihan Erik Estrada |
Dionysus' Day Feast of Bacchus Everything You Do Is Right Day Wild Spring Flower Festival (India) Curlew Day Bock Beer Day Freedom of Information Day Day After Dumbstruck Day (Fairy) Black Press Day Docking Day Goddard Day St. Herbert's Day (patron for rain) Buzzard Day St. Urho's Day (Finland) Italian Renaissance Festival begins National Artichoke Hearts Day |
| March 16 Events | CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) established
(1971) Reading, Pennsylvania became a city (1874) 1st Cup Final (Soccer) Absent Minded Professor premiered Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet premiered My Lai Massacre (1968) 1st Liquid Fuel Rocket launched (1926) Gemini 8 launched (1966) Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay reached No. 1 (1968) Beatles appeared in Strange Tales #130 comic book Typoo of Mysore surrendered to British (1792) 1st Law to license automobiles passed (California; 1901) US Military Academy at West Point established (1802) Julie Newmar 1st played Catwoman (1966) William of Orange crowned William I (1815) NFL rule added that plays be whistled dead whenever QB clearly tackled (1979) 1st Black Newspaper published (1827) K-K-K-Katy published (1918) New London Bridge opened (1973) Eddie McStiff's Brewpub founded (Utah; 1991) Mark's Brewing Co. founded (Colorado; 1995) |
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| 17 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Frank Buck Gottlier Damier Rudolf Nureyev Kate Greenaway Sammy Baugh Rudolph Diesel Kurt Russell Stephen Samuel Wise Clare Grogan Leslie Ann Down Charles Brush Lee Ann Michelle (Pb 2/79) Paul Horn Mercedes McCambridge Chaim Gross Rob Lowe Nat "King" Cole Bobby Jones Paul Kantner Daniel Ray Ainge Bayard Rustin John Sebastian Harold Brown Shemp Howard Betty Allen Frederick Brisson Billy Corgan Dianecht (480 BCE) Patrick Duffy |
St. Patrick's Day (patron of Ireland, Nigeria; against
snakes) Violet Day Trefuilnid Treochair (Feast of Triple Bearer of the Triple Key; Ireland) Submarine Day National Day (Ireland) St. Joseph of Arimathea's Day (patron of funeral directors, pallbearers, tin miners) World Maritime Day St. Gertrude of Nivelles' Day (patron of outdoor gardeners, cats, travelers; against mice) Celtic tree month of Nuin ends National Green Beer Day Holi Festival (India) Green Ribbon Day Camp Fire Boys and Girls Founders Day Evacuation Day (Massachusetts) Patrickmas Royal Hunt of the Sun Speckled Perch Festival (Hong Kong) |
| March 17 Events | National Gallery of Art opened (US) Rubber Band invented (1845) 1st Yacht Club established New 1 Pound Notes issued (UK) Camp Fire Girls established Vanguard 1 launched (1958) 1st Practical Submarine built England repealed Stamp Act (1766) 1st Birth Control Clinic opened in UK (1921) Edward, the Black Prince made 1st Duke of Cornwall (1337) Champs' Tequila reached No. 1 (1958) Great Pizza Race held on Late Night with David Letterman (1982) 1st Sidewheel Steamboat, The New Orleans launched (1811) UN International Maritime Organization established (1958) Victor Emmanuel crowned King of Italy 1st Radio Distress Signal sent from a ship (1899) Burlingame Station Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) Joe-Joe's Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) River Walk Brewery/Boca Beer Works founded (Florida; 1994) Seven-Barrel Brewery founded (New Hampshire; 1994) |
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| 18 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Updike Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Grover Cleveland Jim Funk Edward Everett Horton William H. Johnson Pillsbury Dough Boy Stephane Mallarme Edgar Cayce Rudolf Diesel Christina Ferguson (Pb 4/83) Andre Rison Grover Cleveland Tiffany Clark Stephane Mallarme Patricia Farinelli (Pb 12/81) George Kander Vanessa Williams Peter Graves George Plimpton Wilson Pickett Frank Gatski Neville Chamberlain Unita Blackwell Robert Donat Wilfred Owen Kevin Dobson John Caldwell Calhoun Bonnie Blair Irene Cara Charlie Pride Frederik Willem de Klerk |
Supreme Sacrifice Day (Congo) De Molay Day Sheelah's Day (Ireland) St. Urho's Day (patron of Finland) Canberra Day (Australia) St. Edward's Day Celtic tree month of Fearn (Alder) begins St. Edward the Martyr's Day Flag Day (Aruba) Sheep and Goats Separation Day (Fairy) Casey Jones Day St. Anselm of Lucca's Day National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Day |
| March 18 Events | One of the Dead Sea Scrolls written (385 BCE) NATO established (1949) 1st Recorded Flood in US Electric Shavers 1st for sale (1931) 1st Walk in Space taken (1965) Kamikazes 1st attacked US ships (WW2; 1945) Stamp Act repealed (1766) 1st Motor Bus built Paris Commune established (1871) 1st Public Bus Service began (Paris; 1662) American Express Company founded (1850) NFL began putting player's names on jerseys (1970) Roger Bannister bacme 1st man to run 1 mile in under 4 minutes (1950) John Holmes died (1988) Red Brigade kidnapped former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1978) Neil Young's Heart of Gold reached No. 1 (1972) Lt. Col. Henry Blake killed going home (on M*A*S*H; 1975) Point After Touchdown changed to be woth only 1 point (NFL; 1970) Last Grand Master of Knights Templer, Jacques De Molay, burned at the stake (1314) |
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| 19 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Nikolai Gogol Vivian Hsu David Livingstone Sheldon Duncan Alfred P. Ryder William Jennings Bryan Ursula Andress David McCallum Bruce Willis Ornette Coleman Georges de la Tour Philip Roth Irving Wallace Wyatt Earp Patrick McGoohan Charles M. Russell Lisa Baker (Pb 11/66) Joseph Albers William Bradford Richard Francis Burton Thomas McKean Earl Warren Tobias Smollett Ricky Wilson Moms Mabley Clarence "Frogman" Henry Paul Atkinson Walter Haworth Joe "Iron Man" McGinnity William Bradford Glenn Close Robin Pacquing John J. Sirica Edith Nourse Rogers Lynda Bird Johnson Courtney Pine Brent Scowcroft Adolf Eichmann |
Feast of Athena/Minerva St. Joseph's Day (patron of Austria, Belgium, Canada, carpenters, fathers, house hunting, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, workers; for a happy death; against communism, doubt) National Agriculture Day Swallows Day (traditional return to Capistrano) Dia de San Giuseppe (Italy) Poultry Day Mojoday (aka Dr. Van Van Mojo's Day; Discordian) Eyvind Kinnrifi (Norse) Chariot Races on the Field of Mars (Old Roman) Zimber-Quattor's Revenge Week begins (Fairy) Goddess Month of Moura ends Canberra Day (Australia) National Chocolate Caramel Day |
| March 19 Events | Massachusetts Bay Colony founded 1st Recorded Eclipse of the Sun (721 BCE) League of Nations not ratified by US (1920) Royal Wedding premiered Alka Seltzer 1st for sale (1931) 1st US Bank Robbery (NYC; 1831) Rio Bravo premiered Standard Time Act passed (1918) Battle of Falkland Islands began Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov premiered (1913) Santa Clara University founded 1st Planetarium in UK opened (1958) Elvis Presley bought Graceland (1957) Final episode of Mary Tyler Moore aired (1977) Evangelist Jim Bakker resigned in disgrace (1987) MonkeyCam debuted on Late Night with David Letterman (1993) |
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| 20 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Henrik Ibsen Ovid Isaac Newton Fred "Mr." Rogers Max Brand B.F. Skinner John De Lancie Charles William Eliot Holly Hunter Mathias Keller Ozzie Nelson Mitsumasa Anno Sviatislav Richter Ray Goulding Jean Houdon Carl Reiner Bobby Orr Carl Palmer George Caleb Bingham William Hurt Theresa Russell Slim Jim Phantom Jerry Reed Larry Elgart Hal Linden Ray Goulding Ted Bessell Friedrich Holderin Brian Mulroney Pat Riley Larry Elgart Paul Junger Witt Vanessa Bell Calloway John Erlichman Napoleon II Big Bird (Sesame Street) |
Earth Day (UN) St. Cuthbert's Day (patron of shepherds, seafarers, sailors) Alban Eilir (aka Ostara; 5th Station) St. Joachim's Day (Father of the Blessed Virgin) Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions Tunisia Independence Day Festival for Driving Out All Evils (Inca) Goddess Month of Columbina begins Iduna (Norse Bearer of Magic Apples) Palm Beach Festival St. John of Parma's Day Lajos Kossuth Day (Hungary) National Ravioli Day St. Martin of Braga's Day Namibia Independence Day Great American Meatout Children's Day (US) Pisces zodiac sign ends Snowman Burning (Lake Superior State College) Pigeons return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana) |
| March 20 Events | Switzerland declared perpetual neutrality 1st Scale made Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852) Dutch East India Company founded (1602) Radar 1st demonstrated (1934) 1st Radio Telephone built Red Sonja 1st appeared (Conan #24) South Pacific premiered Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament (1653) 1st Squash Club established Janis Joplin's Me and Bobby McGee reached No. 1 (1971) Patty Hearst found guilty of helping SLA (1976) John Lennon married Yoko Ono (1969) 1st Woman executed James Cagney died (1986) Mrs. Peel reunited with her long, lost husband, and was replaced by Tara King (The Avengers; 1968) Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1st Detective Story, published (1841) Jaipur Restaurant & Brewpub founded (Nebraska; 1992) |
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| 21 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Modest Mussorgsky Florenz Ziegfield Timothy Dalton Hans Hoffmann Samantha Leah Dorman (Pb 9/91) Roger Hodgson Francis Lewis Son House Phyliss McGinley Mr. T Jennifer Jackson (Pb 4/89) Matthew Broderick Frederick Taylor Benito Juarez Kathleen Widdoes Peter Brook Al Freeman Jr. Peter Brook James Jesse Strang Mort Lindsey Conrad Lozano Russell Thompkins Jr. Cynthia Geary Jonas "Joker" Berggren Paul Tortelier James Coco Ed Broadbent Jay Walter Hilgenberg Helena Antonaccio (Pb 6/69) Mary Gross John D. Rockefeller III |
Global Understanding Day Vernal Equinox (Northern Hemisphere @) International Astrology Day Ancient Babylonian New Year End of the World Day (Iran) Memory Day Aries zodiac sign begins Children's Poetry Day Namibia Independence Day Fragrance Day Marzanna (Spring Festival; Poland) Bird Day (Iowa) National Teen-Agers Day Single Parent Day Festival of Washerwomen (France) Noruz (Iran) St. Enda's Day Ching Ming Festival (China) Feast of Naw-Ruz (Baha'i New Year @) Back Badge Day Astrology Day National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho) California Strawberry Day Iranian New Year St. Benedict's Day (patron of speleologists) National French Bread Day Heroes' Day (South Africa) St. Serapion of Thmuis' Day Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day (UN) |
| March 21 Events | Beatles played their 1st gig at the Cavern Holy City of Tara Founded by Tea and Tephi (Ireland) 1st US Zoo opened Hatfield-McCoy feud ended 1st UN Naval Officer commissioned Blackboard Jungle premiered 1st Old Soldier's Home opened Beatles' She Love You reached No. 1 (1964) France's Napoleonic Code in effect (1804) Shauna Grant (Colleen Applegate) committed suicide (1984) UK National Health Service announced (1946) Alcatraz Prison closed (1963) Elliot Gould & Barbra Streisand married (1963) 1st Air Passenger Plane flew over Paris (1908) Leland McKenzie fell down an elevator shaft & died (on L.A. Law; 1991) New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman renamed a Route 295 rest stop after Howard Stern, fulfulling a campaign promise (1995) The final group of Mayflower passengers disembarked, having spent the winter aboard (1621) Wiliam Miller claimed the world would end on this day in 1843 . . then 1844 |
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| 22 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Anthony Van Dyck James T. Kirk (2228) Randolph Caldecott Stephen Sondheim William Glackens Rosa Bonheur Ernest Lawson Robert Millikan Marcel Marceau George Benson Werner Klemperer Bob Costas Robert Milikan Matthew Modine Elvis Stojko Stephen Pearl Andrews Ross Martin John Bartram Karl Malden Bill Wendell Andrew Lloyd Webber William Shatner Nicholas Monsarrat Chico Marx Mariah Carey Kaiser Wilhelm I Orrin Hatch Pat Robertson Cody Gifford |
National Goof-Off Day Tree Planting Day (Lesotho) Festival of Immortality Banned in Boston Day St. Nicholas von Flue's Day (patron of Switzerland) World Day for Water (UN) National Sing-Out Day Arab League Day Saka (Indian New Year) St. Catherine of Sweden's Day Liberty Day Jordan Independence Day National Bavarian Crepes Day |
| March 22 Events | Laser patented (1960) Rutlemania began Senate approved ERA Cornstarch patented International Airline service began Anything Goes premiered 1st Color Pictures in a Newspaper (1904) English Football League founded (1888) Beatles' album Early Beatles released Stamp Act imposed by England (1765) Arab League Pact signed Niagra Falls ran out of water due to a drought (1903) Grand Coulee Dam became operational (1941) 1st Metered Taxi Cabs in London (1907) UK Parliament buys 38 paintings to begin National Collection (1824) Carbonated Water discovered by Joseph Priestly (1733) 1st Women's College Basketball Game played (1893) Equal Rights Amendment sent to the states for ratification (1972) Puerto Rico abolished slavery (1873) Beatles' single Please Please Me released Tillie the Toiler comic strip began (1931) Hale-Bopp comet came closest to Earth (4 a.m.; 1997) Patrick Henry gave his "Give me liberty or give me death speech" (1775) Smokey Mountain Brewery founded (North Carolina; 1993) |
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| 23 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Akira Kurosawa William Smith Fanie Farmer Karen McDougal (Pb 12/97) Werner Von Braun John Bartram Sidney Hillman Roger Bannister Moses Malone J.P. Donleavy Ron Jaworski Juan Gris Arnie Wienmeister Martha Wright Dante Jones Teresa Ganzel Amanda Plummer Joan Crawford Marty Allen Chaka Khan Muirhead Bone Schuyler Colfax |
Toast Day Summer Finding (Norse) Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Day Pakistan Republic Day National Chip and Dip Day Fun & Sun Festival Dandelion Dance (Fairy) Near-Miss Day World Meterological Day (UN) National Energy Education Day St. Toribio's Day (patron of Latin American bishops) Rally For Decency Day St. Turibius de Mongrovejo's Day Provincial Anniversary Day (Otago and Southland, New Zealand) |
| March 23 Events | Beat the Clock debuted Cable Car patented 1st Photographic Portrait Studio opened Nellie Melba revealed her Melba Toast recipe 1st Department Store Elevator installed John Lennon's In His Own Write published Truth or Consequences debuted Handel's Messiah premiered Fascism founded in Italy Rivet patented Canada's 1st Newspaper published (1752) Jaguar E-type introduced (1961) Rally For Decency held in Miami (1969) Tennessee outlawed Teaching of Evolution (1925) Benito Mussolini founded Fascist Party in Italy (1919) UN World Meteorlogical Organization established (1950) Lewis & Clark began their trip back from the Northwest (1806) Pedro the Cruel, King of Castille, murdered by his brother Henry (1369) 1st Group of Heaven's Gate cult members committed suicide (1997) Patrick Henry gave his "give me liberty or give me death" speech (1775) Barney Clark, 1st permanent heart transplant recipient, died after 112 days (1983) Willamette Brewing Co. founded (Oregon; 1991) |
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| 24 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Ub Iwerks William Morris John Wesley Powell Nick Lowe Georgius Agricola Andrew Mellon Steve McQueen Lawrence Ferlinghetti Roger Bannister Galen Clark Clyde Barrow Thomas E. Dewey Byron Janis Norman Fell George Sisler Rufus King Bob Mackie Wilhelm Reich Kathy Rinaldi Robert Caradine Dorothy Constance Stratton George Francis Train Donna Pescow Kim Ulrich Dorothy Irene Height Larry Wilson Dario Fo Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Harry Houdini escaped from his mother's womb |
Britannia's Day Day of Blood (Ancient Rome) Archangel Gabriel's Day Left-of-Field Fanciers' Fortnight (Fairy) St. Catherine of Sweden's Day (patron against abortion, miscarriage) Polish Constitution Day Agriculture Day St. Gabriel's Day (patron of childbirth, diplomats, messengers, postal workers, stamp collectors, telephone workers) Philippines Independence Day National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day |
| March 24 Events | Library of Congress opened Bomb invented Elvis Presley drafted James I crowned King of England Seneca County, New York founded (1804) 1st Sebring Trans-Am race held (1966) Ginny Slade announced her candidacy (Doonesbury) O'Jay's Love Train reached No. 1 (1973) Duane Delacourt named Secretary of Symbolism (Doonesbury) UK Parliament passed Quartering Act (1765) Cold Fusion announced (1989) Denmark abolished capital punishment (1911) Beaver became a royal emblem of Canada (1975) Sylvester debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1945) 1st Air Transport Company incorporated (London; 1843) Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race ended in a tie (1877) 2nd Group of Heaven's Gate cult members committed suicide (1997) Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of oil (1989) Denver Chop House & Brewery founded (Colorado; 1995) Old Harbor Brewing Co. founded (Massachusetts; 1995) River City Brewing Co. founded (Kansas; 1993) |
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| 25 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jimmy Stewart Bela Bartok Arturo Toscanini Gutzon Borglum Elton John Pierre Boulez Bonnie Bedelia Nick Lowe Aretha Franklin Howard Cosell James Lovell Jr. Gloria Steinem Flannery O'Connor Sarah Jessica Parker Jack Youngerman David Lean Bridget D'Oyly Carte Simone Signoret Hoyt Axton Eileen Ford Johnny Burnette Paul Michael Glaser Haywood Nelson Laszlo Papp Debi Thomas William Bell Wait Nancy Kelly John A. Keel Tom Monaghan Mary Gross John Winebrenner Anita Bryant |
Day of Tourists Quarter Day (aka Lady Day; UK, Ireland) Feast of the Annunciation Greece Independence Day Swallow Day (UK) Palace Theatre Day Waffle Day (Sweden) Celebrate Rivers, Lakes & Ponds Day Numbskulls and Clodhoppers' Dance (Fairy) Birthday of Kuan Yin (Goddess of Healing; China) Maryland Day Pecan Day Dismas Day National Lobster Newburg Day St. Dismas' Day (patron of prisoners, funeral directors, criminals, thieves) |
| March 25 Events | Pancakes 1st made 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded Common Market formed (1957) Polio Vaccine announced 1st Color TV image produced Maryland 1st settled (1634) Treaty of Rome formed EEC (1957) Jesus crucified (according to old beliefs) Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland (1306) Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Prince William Sound (1989) UK Parliament abolished slave trade (1807) Scotland win 1st Soccer game against Wales (2-0; 1876) 1st Catholic Mass performed in US (1634) Happy Land Social Club set fire (1990) Michael Jackson 1st Moonwalked (1983) Pizza Hut introduced Stuft Crust Pizza (1995) George Washington planted pecan trees at Mt. Vernon (1775) Boston Patriots became the New England Patriots (1971) Last group of Heaven's Gate cult members committed suicide (1997) Saudi Arabian King Faisal assassinated by his nephew (1975) Charlie Parker played with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1946) Jackson Hole Pub & Brewery/Snake River Brewing Co. founded (Wyoming; 1994) |
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| 26 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Robert Frost Duncan Hines Tennessee Williams Sandra Day O'Connor James Caan Pierre Boulez Alan Arkin Leonard Nimoy Tara Curtis Natsuko Tohno Erica Jong Nathaniel Bowditch Bob Elliot Louis Otto Sterling Hayden Edward Bellamy Chico Marx Diana Ross Jane Delano Alexei Jawlensky Morris West Robert Woodward Scooter Uwe Blab Jennifer Grey Star Stowe (Pb 2/77) Vicki Lawrence Steven Tyler Louise Otto Teddy Pendergrass Gino Cappelletti William Westmoreland John Houston Stockton Marcus Allen Rufus Thomas Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Kenny Chesney James Iha Leeza Gibbons Martin Short |
Universal Dole Day Fiesta del Arbol (Fete of the Tree; Spain) Make Up Your Holiday Day St. Braulio's Day (patron of Aragon, Spain) Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii) Spinach Festival (Texas) National Nougat Day Festival of Masked Mastubation Bangladesh Independence Day St. Petersburg Festival of States (Florida) Tichborne Dole (gallon of flour given to every resident of Alresford, Hampshire, UK by Tichborne family head to avoid curse; since 1150) St. Ludger's Day (patron of Saxons) End of Zimber-Quattor's Revenge Week and Day of Reconcilliation with All Those Whose Hats Have Been Damaged (Fairy) |
| March 26 Events | 1st Oxford/Cambridge Rowing Contest Lifeboat patented Battle of Iwo Jima ended (1945) Interstate Roads 1st authorized 1st Game Reserve formed (1878) John & Yoko's Bed-In began (1969) Incredible Mr. Limpet premiered Cape Cod named (1602) 1st Sunday Newspaper published (1780) US Naturalization Act passed (1790) American Motors introduced the Gremlin (1970) Sabi Game Reserve established (South Africa; 1878) Hall & Oates' Rich Girl reached No. 1 (1977) Nazis began sending Jews to Auschwitz (1942) 1st Woman Stockbroker trades on London Stock Exchange (1973) Vanderbilt's 1st social event dress ball held (1883) Happy Holligan comic strip began (1900) Carol Burnett won her libel suit against the National Enquirer |
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| 27 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Dashiell Hammett Carl Barks Nathaniel Currier Ferde Grofe Vincent D'Indy Sarah Vaughn Quentin Tarantino Chris Willis Tony Banks William Konrad Rontgen Edward Steichen Gloria Swanson Mstislav Rostopovich Henry Royce Georges Haussmann David Janssen William Roentgen Michael York Randall Cunningham Ludwig Van der Rohe Snooky Lansen Miller Huggins Sato Eisaku Alice Herz Thorne Smith Anthony Lewis Little Junior Parker Maria Schneider Cole Yarborough Raymond Hood Cyrus Vance Walt Kiesling Patty Smith Hill Adolphus Washington Greely Jesse Brown Mariah Carey Louis XVII |
Downtown Day National "Joe" Day Liberalia (Ancient Rome; Festival of Vegetation God) Rosa's Cantina Day (Mason City, Iowa) St. Alkelda's Day (patron against eye disease) Lazy Moocher's Day Smell the Breezes Day (Egypt) Resistance Day (Burma) National Spanish Paella Day Osweiler (Blessing of horses, tractors, and cars; Luxembourg) |
| March 27 Events | Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to death (30
CE) Corkscrew patented 1st Cherry Tress planted on Potomac River Rutles released US Navy established (1794) 1st Fire Engine tested North Sea oil rig disaster (1980) Ponce de Leon reached Florida (1513) Alaska Earthquake (1964) Funky Winkerbean comic strip 1st published (1974) 1st Successful Blood Transfusion (1914) Kerosene Oil patented Plaster Cast invented Scott of the Antarctic perished 1st Long Distance Phone Call made Florida named (1513) Eric Clapton and Patti Boyd married "Great Revival" begins (1858) Mutt and Jeff 1st met (1908) Polish Solidarity strikes began (1981) Kim Bassinger bought the town of Braselton, Georgia for $20 million (1989) National Exchange Club established (Detroit, Michigan; 1911) Ponce de Leon discovered Florida's east coast (1513) David Letterman pissed off the media with his "Uma . . . Oprah. Oprah . . . Uma." bit hosting the Oscars (1995) Supremes' Stop! In the Name of Love reached No. 1 (1965) Queen Elizabeth II made her 1st official visit to a pub (1998) Umpqua Brewing Co. founded (Oregon; 1991) |
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| 28 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Raphael Jesus Christ Marlin Perkins Rudolf Serkin Dirk Bogarde Paul Whiteman Ken Howard Nelson Algren Bill Haley Master Samwise Spencer Kimball John Evan Maxim Gorki Russel Banks Susan Grode Diane Wiest Byron Anton Scott Reba McEntire Wade Hampton Edmund Muskie Abraham Walkowitz Freddie Bartholomew Edmund S. Muskie John Nepomucene Neumann Frank Hughes Murkowski |
Sun and Moon Creation Day Illness Day Teacher's Day (Czecholsovakia) Something on a Stick Day Sacrifice At the Tombs (Old Roman Festival) Taurobolium (Baptism of Blood) Confucius Memorial Day Tulip Festival begins (@) St. Teresa of Avila's Day National Black Forest Cake Day Scratch Ankle Festival (Florida @) Defy Death Today Day St. Gontron's Day Invasion of Loaming Shores Beyond the Certain Sea Anniversary (Fairy) St. John N. Neumann's Day (1st US Male St.) |
| March 28 Events | Three Mile Island overheated (1979) Washing Machine patented Tarzan the Apeman premiered Mexican War began (1846) Battle of Berwick-on-Tweed (1296) April Fools Day premiered Run Silent, Run Deep premiered Virginia Woolf commited suicide (1941) Paris declared "Commune of the People" (1871) Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married (1920 1st Seaplane flew (1910) Hair premiered on Broadway (1968) Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated (193 CE) Blondie's Rapture reached No. 1 (1981) P.T. Barnum & James A. Bailey formed a circus partnership (1881) Both Oxford & Cambridge varsity race boats sank (1912) Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married (1920) Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett separated (1995) The Avengers debuted in the US (1966) Computer program "Laila" translated into Norwegian (1990; Sophie's World) Zhang, Tiananmen Square activist, granted political asylum by US Gov't (1990) David Morris of Munroe Falls, Ohio saw a glowing cone-shaped UFO in a nearby field and then accidently ran over a stocky, spacesuited midget on the road (1967) According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ' birthday was 28 March until changed in 336 CE by Rome |
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| 29 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| William Walton Eric Idle John Tyler Edward Burra Jack Butler Yeats Elle MacPherson Spike Lee Elihu Thomson Marina Sirtis Jill Goodacre E. Power Biggs Oscar Meyer Bud Cort Pearl Bailey John McLaughlin Edwin Lutyens Karen Ann Quinlan Counsellor Troi (2336) Arthur O'Connell Cy Young Vangelis Walt Frasier Howard Lindsay Nancy Kwan Denny McLain Emlen Tunnell Ales Hrdlicka Earl Campbell Kurt Thomas Billy Carter Edwin Drake Larry Pressler Norman Tebbit Lou Henry Hoover Man O' War Samwise Eugene McCarthy |
Alchemy Day Vietnam Veteran's Day Festival of Smoke and Mirrors Memorial Day (Madagascar) Boganda Day (Central African Republic) Swedish Colonial Day (Delaware) Day of Redress (Fairy) Runic half-month of Beorc ends Delaware Swedish Colonial Day St. Woolos' Day National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day Youth Day (Tawain) WHIM Conference (Western Humor & Interdisciplinary Irony Membership) Borrowed Days begin (calendar legend held that March stole 3 days from April) |
| March 29 Events | Royal Albert Hall opened (1871) Coca-Cola invented (1886) 1st Bookmobile Day (David Letterman) Fog Disposal Unit 1st tested Louvre Pyramid inaugurated (1989) 1st Music Society formed Lil' Abner married Daisy May (1952) 1st Comic Relief benefit concert held (1986) Knights of Columbus founded (1882) Last US Troops left Vietnam (1973) 1st Automobile went 200 mph Battle of Towton, Yorkshire (1461) Lt. Calley scapegoated for My Lai Massacre Niagra Falls stopped flowing (1848) 1st Swedish immigrants arrived in US (1638) UK Women got the vote (1929) King & I premiered on Broadway 1st Commercial space launch (1989) Idi Amin deposed (1979) John Partridge "Death" Hoax perpetrated by Jonathan Swift (1708) LaBelle's Lady Marmalade reached No. 1 (1975) 23rd Amendment (DC residents granted right to vote; 1961) Marquis de Sade freed by demand of the people (1790) Blood, Sweat & Tears' Child is Father to the Man released Original Johnny Carson Show ended on CBS (1956) Committee on Assassinations Report issued by US House of Representatives stating JFK assassination was result of conspiracy (1979) |
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| 30 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Vincent Van Gogh Francisco Jose de Goya John Astin Moses Maimonics Sean O'Casey Eric Clapton DeWitt Wallace Warren Beatty Jo Davidson Donna D'Errico (Pb 9/95) Clifford Whittingham Beers Nichiren Richard Dysart McGeorge Bundy Bernhard Schmidt John Hawkins Frankie Laine Peter Marshall Melanie Klein Paul Verlaine Bob C. Smith Emma Goldman Bob Miller |
Birthday of Lao-Tzu (China) Doctor's Day Festival of Reality Fabrication National Badminton Day "I Am in Control" Day Runic half-month of Ehwaz (horse) begins Limited Liability Day Festival of Janus and Concordia National Hot Dog Day Pennsylvania Crafts Fair Day St. John Climacus' Day Take A Walk In the Park Day Flowertown Festival Seward Day Benediction de Los Animales (Blessing of the Animals; Mexico) Fairies of the First Wand Reunion Dinner (Guests not invited; Fairy) |
| March 30 Events | Metropolitan Museum opened US bought Alaska from Russia (1867) 1st Dance Marathon held Some Like It Hot premiered Anaesthesia 1st used (1842) Eraser-topped Pencil patented (1858) Treaty of Fez signed Crimean War ended (1856) Incubator patented Kull #1 published Transistor patented (1956) Jesus Christ died (29, 30, 33, or 36 CE) Genessee County, New York founded (1802) Texas readmitted to the Union (1870) Okefenokee Swamp National Refuge established Sino-British Opium War began (1839) Knoxville Road, Tennessee began construction (1791) Beatles have 5 songs in Top 5; 12 songs in Top 100 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of spying (1951) Kurt Russell proposes to Goldie Hawn at the Oscars (1989) Jack Paar hosted The Tonight Show for the last time (1962) US President Ronald Reagen shot by John Hinckley Jr. (1981) 1st Ocean Liner circumnavigated the Earth (1923) John Denver's Sunshine on My Shoulder reached No. 1 (1974) Brooklyn Brewery founded (New York; 1988) River Market Brewing Co. founded (Missouri; 1995) |
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| 31 March | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rene Descartes Nikolai Gogol Franz Joseph Haydn Edward FitzGerald Robert Von Bunsen John Donne Red Norvo William Morris Hunt John La Farge Edith "Aunt Jemima" Wilson William Daniels Andrew Lang Gordie Howe John Jakes Ethel Harper Henry Morgan Judith Rossner Andrew Marvell Liz Claiborne Gabe Kaplan John Fowles Patrick Leahy Octavio Paz Richard Kiley Christopher Walken Al Gore Herb Alpert Mose Maimonides Sergei Diaghliev Barney Frank Rhea Perlman Shirley Jones Judith Rossner Richard Chamberlain Ed Marinaro Leo Buscaglia Jimmy Johnson Patrick J. Leahy Cesar Chavez |
Tater Day Oranges and Lemons Day Luna (Old Roman Moon Festival) Sacred Drama Day (Ancient Babylonia) Transfer Day (Virgin Islands) Malta National Day Bunsen Burner Day Pennsylvania Maple Festival Soviet Georgia Independence Day Day Everyone Says "31" a Lot (Fairy) National Clams on the Half Shell Day St. Balbinus' Day (patron against diseases of the lymph glands, scrofula) |
| March 31 Events | Eiffel Tower opened (1889) Daylight Savings Time 1st went into effect (1918) Schumann's Spring Symphony premiered Mt. Rushmore authorized 1st Air Warfare casualty died Dalai Lama fled Tibet (1951) Tejano singing star Selena murdered (1995) Japan opened its doors to US trade (1854) Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki published (1950) Oklahoma premiered on Broadway (1940) 1st Map of the US published Newfoundland became a Canadian Province (1949) Smilin' Jack married in comic strip (1973) US Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark (1917) Milton Caiff's Male Call with Miss Lace comic strip ended (1945) Kenny Loggins' Footloose reached No. 1 (1984) Singer Selena gunned down (1995) New Zealand farmer flew a homemade monoplane (1903) San Francisco's Army Street renamed Cesar Chavez (1995) Madonna is bleeped 12 times using the word "fuck" on David Letterman (1994) Gottlieb Daimler named his newly invented automobile after his daughter, Mercedes (1901) 2 short, gray & hairy aliens appeared on the patio of a house in Puerto Rico (1991) The SandLot Brewery at Coors Field founded (Colorado; 1995) |
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