March Monthly Observances

Irish American Heritage Month

• National Craft Month

• National Nutrition Month

• Music in Our Schools Month

• Women’s History Month

• National Cheerleading Safety Month

 

 March Daily Observances

• Mar 1 – May 7 Whooping Crane Spring Migration

• Mar 1, 1692 Salem Witch Hysteria Begins

• Mar 1, 1872 Yellowstone National Park Established

• Mar 1, 1911 Korea Independence Movement Day

• Mar 1, 1950 Silly Putty Debuts

• Mar 2, 1904 Dr. Seuss’ Birthday (Celebrated as Read Across America)

• Mar 3, 1847 Alexander Graham Bell’s Birthday

• Mar 3, 1931 National Anthem Day

• Mar 3, 2015 World Book Day

• Mar 4, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as President

• Mar 4, 2015 National Grammar Day

• Mar 5, 1770 Boston Massacre

• Mar 6, 1475 Michelangelo’s Birthday

• Mar 6, 1836 Fall of the Alamo

• Mar 7, 2015 Iditarod Begins

• Mar 7, 1876 U.S. Patent Issued for Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone

• Mar 8, 2015 Daylight Saving Time Begins

• Mar 9, 1959 Barbie Doll Debuts

• Mar 10, 2015 Harriet Tubman Day (the Anniversary of Her Death in 1913)

• Mar 10, 1862 US Paper Money Issued

• Mar 11, 1845 Death of John Chapman, celebrated as Johnny Appleseed Day

• Mar 11, 1918 First Flu Case in the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Reported at Fort Riley, KS

• Mar 13, 1781 Sir William Herschel Discovers Uranus

• Mar 13, 2015 Deaf History Month Begins

• Mar 14, 2015 Pi Day

• Mar 14, 1879 Albert Einstein’s Birthday

• Mar 14, 2015 International Ask a Question Day

• Mar 17, 2015 Ireland National Day

• Mar 17, 2015 St. Patrick’s Day

• Mar 20, 2015 International Earth Day

• Mar 20, 2015 Spring Equinox

• Mar 21, 1617 Pocahontas’ Death Anniversary

• Mar 21, 1885 Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Birthday

• Mar 21, 2015 Race Relations Day

• Mar 22, 1846 Randolph Caldecott’s Birthday

• Mar 22, 1941 Tuskegee Airmen Activated

• Mar 22, 2015 World Water Day

• Mar 23, 2015 National Puppy Day

• Mar 24, 1874 Harry Houdini’s Birthday

• Mar 26, 1874 Robert Frost’s Birthday

• Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2015 National Week of the Ocean

• Mar 30, 1853 Vincent van Gogh Birthday

• Mar 30, 1867 U.S. Agrees to Purchase Alaska From Russia for $7.2 Million Dollars

• Mar 31, 1889 Eiffel Tower Opened