Important Dates & Events in History
MARCH

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

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

Vasaloppet (Sweden)
Girl Scout Sabbath

Iditarod (dogsled race) begins

Discovery Day (Guam)

World Day of Prayer
Lide (Cornwall, UK)

Holmenkellen Day (Winter Festival; Norway)

Mid-Lent Sunday
Braggot Sunday (Lancashire, UK)

Commonwealth Day (Canada & UK)
formerly Empire Day

Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest (British Columbia, Canada)

Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing

Academy Awards

National Organize Your Home Office Day

Mothering Sunday (UK)
Bretzelsonndeg (Pretzel Sunday: Luxembourg)
Laetare Sunday
Simnel Sunday

Care Sunday
Passion Sunday
Patient Sunday
Carling Sunday

1st Day of Spring Earth Day
Bock Beer Day
National Agriculture Day
Ostara (Wiccan)
Proposal Day
Snowman Burning
Master Gardener Day

Palm Sunday
Fig Sunday
Fig Pudding Day

Ra-Ra (Haiti)

Spy Wednesday

Maundy Thursday
Sheer Thursday (fka Skire Thursday)
Procession of the Addolorata (Italy)

Good Friday
Long Rope Day
Procession of the Mysteries

Easter Even

Marzenna (Poland)

Holy Week
Great Week

Vigil of Easter
Procession of Icon of St. Lazarus (Cyprus)

Easter
Pasch Day (Scotland)

Ball Day
Anden Paaskedag (Denmark)
Emaishen (Luxembourg)
Pace Monday (aka Pace Day; Scotland)

Sham al-Neseem (Egypt)

Festival of the Sardine (Spain)

Quasimodo Sunday
Low Sunday
Low Easterday

Hock Tuesday (aka Hock Day)
Tutti Day (Berkshire, UK)

Fasnacht (Switzerland)

Summer Daylight-Saving Time begins (Europe)

Seward's Day (Alaska)

Dumb Week (Greece)
Passion Week

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

Moses (1560 BCE)
Cascellius of Rome (1st Dentist; 40 CE)
Sandro Botticelli
1810 Frédéric Chopin, composer (Poland; died 1849)
1904 Glenn Miller, bandleader /musician /composer (Clarinda, IA; died 1944)
1914 Ralph Ellison, writer (Oklahoma City, OK; died 1994)
1920 Harry Caray, sportscaster (St. Louis, MO; died 1998)
1922 William M. Gaines, Mad Magazine publisher (Bronx, NY; died 1992)
Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister (Jerusalem, Israel; died 1995)
1924 Donald "Deke" Slayton, astronaut (Sparta, WI; died 1993)
1927 Harry Belafonte, singer (New York, NY)
1933 Myrle Evers, civil rights leader
1935 Robert Conrad, actor (Chicago, IL)
1944 Roger Daltrey, singer /musician (London, England)
1947 Alan Thicke, actor (Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada)
1954 Ron Howard, actor/director (Duncan, OK)
1958 Timothy Daly, actor (Suffern, NY)
Dinah Shore

" 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 Festival (Bulgaria)
" Shivrati (Hindu)

" Nostradamus' Book of Centuries published (1555)
" Articles of Confederation ratified (1777)
" 1st State abolished slavery (Pennsylvania; 1780)
" 1st US Census authorized (1790)
" Ohio became the 17th state (1803)
" Nebraska became the 37th state (1867)
" US Civil Rights Act passed (1875)
" 1st Person parachuted from an airplane (1912)
" Last Emperor of China coronnated (1934)
" Bikini Atoll destroyed by 1st Hydrogen Bomb test (1954)
" Peace Corp established (1961)
" Weather Underground bombed US Capitol building (1971)
" 1st Book published in English
" Yellowstone National Park, 1st US
" National Park, established
" Lindbergh baby kidnapped
" 1st Typewriter Manual published
" Magellan discovered Guam
" Shivrati (Hindu) - On Shiva's Night, the Hindu deity Lord Shiva performed the Tandav, the cosmic dance of creation and destruction. A 24 hour fast is kept and devotees make pilgrimages to major shrines for worship.
" St. David, the patron saint of poets, died on this day.

1793 Sam Houston, soldier/politician/hero of Texas independence (Rockbridge County, VA; died 1863)
1876 Pope Pius XII, pope during WWII (Rome, Italy; died 1958)
1900 Kurt Weill, composer (Germany; died 1950)
1904 Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's author (Springfield, MA; died 1991)
1909 Mel Ott, baseball player (Gretna, LA; died 1958)
1919 Jennifer Jones, actress (Tulsa, OK)
1923 Doc Watson, country singer/musician (Deep Gap, NC)
1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader (Privolnoc, Russia)
Tom Wolfe, novelist/journalist (Richmond, VA)
1942 John Irving, novelist (Exeter, NH)
1943 Lou Reed, singer/songwriter (Long Island, NY)
1952 Laraine Newman, actress/comedian (Los Angeles, CA)
1962 Jon Bon Jovi, singer/songwriter (Sayreville, NJ)
Desi Arnaz
Eddie Money
Karen Carpenter

" Holy Wells Day
" March Nymphs' Parade (Fairy)
" World Day of Prayer
" Ceadda (Celtic God of Healing Waters)
" Key Grip Day (Alaska)
" National Independence Day (Morroco)
" Peasants' Day (Burma)
" St. Chad's Day
" National Banana Cream Pie Day
" St. Simplicius' Day
" Texas Independence Day
" St. Agnes of Bohemia
" Ala - Bahai - The nineteenth and final month in the Baha'i calendar and the time of the 19 Day fast in preparation of their new year, Naw Ruz. The English translation of Ala (Arabic) is Loftiness.
" Nawabarsha (New Year) (India, Nepal)
" Carnival Parade (Brazil)

" 1st Semaphore signal sent (1791)
" 1st US School for the Blind opened (1829)
" Texas declared itself independent from Mexico (1836)
" Texas seceded from the Union (1861)
" Battle of Waynesboro (1865)
" Mount Ranier National Park established (1899)
" Elmer Fudd debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1940)
" B-52 Bomber completed 1st non-stop global flight, refuelling 4 times in midair (1949)
" Concorde jet 1st flew (1969)
" 1st Monkey successfully cloned (1997)
" Britain severed formal ties with Australia (1986)
" Time Magazine 1st published
" 1st Ballet performed

1853 Mar 2, The Territory of Washington was organized after separating from Oregon Territory. (1853)

1899 Mar 2, Congress established Mount Rainier National Park, the nation's 5th national park. (1899)

1831 George Pullman, inventor/industrialist (Brocton, NY; died 1897)
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (Edinburgh, Scotland; died 1922)
1895 Matthew Bunker Ridgway, general (Fort Monroe, VA; died 1993)
1950 Tim Kazurinsky, actor/comedian (Johnstown, PA)
1958 Miranda Richardson, actress (Lancashire, England)
1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic champion heptathlete (East St. Louis, IL)
Herschel Walker, football player (Wrightsville, GA)
1974 David Faustino, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Jean Harlow, actress
James Doohan, actor ("Scotty" of Star Trek)
Alan Ginsburg, beatnik poet and peace activist
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)
" Hinamatsuri (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
" St. Guignole (patron against impotence, infertility)
*** Losar (New Year) - Tibet

" Juan Ponce de Leon set sail looking for the fabled island of Bimini where supposedly the Fountain of Youth was located. (1513)
" District of Columbia created (1791)
" Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata published (1802)
" Florida became the 27th state (1845)
" Missouri Compromise passed (1820)
" US Congress appropriated money to buy camels for use in southwest dessert (1855)
" Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to help free blacks of the South. (1865)
" The Indian Appropriations Act was passed by Congress. It made all American Indians wards of the federal government and nullified all previous treaties with the Indians. (1885)
" Bizet's Carmen premiered (1875)
" Rutherford B. Hayes took the oath of office as the 19th president of the United States in a private ceremony. A public swearing-in took place two days later. (1877)
" Cause of Syphillis discovered (1905)
" The film "Birth of a Nation" debuted in New York City. Once hailed as the greatest silent film ever produced, the film has also been the target of much criticism for its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. (1915)
" Boeing flew the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Wash. (1919)
" Time Magazine 1st published (1923)
" "The Star Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key wrote the song during the War of 1812. (1931)
" Mount Rushmore is dedicated. (1933)
" Citing the "tribal rhythms" and "encouragement to behave in a hedonistic manner," the head of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, Samuel Cardinal Strich, banned rock & roll from Catholic schools and "recreations" in his district. (1957)
" "Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, premiered (1965)
" Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles police officers following a high speed chase. The entire scene was captured on home video, sparking a nationwide outrage against police brutality. (1991)
" Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled terminally ill patients have the "right to die" (1996)
" Larry Doby was elected to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame. He was the first black player in the American League. (1998)
The New Carissa ran aground again on the Oregon coast after its towline broke during towing in stormy seas. (1999)
" Boxer John Ruiz became the first Hispanic WBA heavyweight champion by defeating Evander Holyfield in a unanimous, 12-round decision. (2001)
" 1st I.R.S. Tax imposed
" National Academy of Sciences established
" Bachman's Warbler declared extinct
" US Double Eagle $20 & $1 gold pieces authorized
" Serfdom abolished in Russia
" 1st Child Labor Law passed
" Star-Spangled Banner proclaimed US National Anthem
" King Kong premiered

" US Forest Service established
" Gregorian Time began
" The Hinamatsuri, or Doll Festival, ( Japan) is combined with the Spring Festival. Ceremonial dolls are displayed in honor of the girls in the family.

1678 Antonio Vivaldi, composer (Italy; died 1741)
1747 Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero (Winiary, Mazovia, Poland; died 1779)
1888 Knute Rockne, football coach (Voss, Norway; died 1931)
1921 Joan Greenwood, actress (London, England; died 1987)
1932 Miriam Makeba, singer/actress/political activist (Johannesburg, South Africa)
1934 Barbara McNair, singer/actress (Racine, WI)
1939 Paula Prentiss, actress (San Antonio, TX)
1944 Mary Wilson, singer and member of the Supremes (Detroit, MI)
1954 Catherine O'Hara, actress/comedian (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1961 Steven Weber, actor (Queens, NY)
1966 Kevin Johnson, basketball player (Sacramento, CA)
Jane Goodall, scientist
Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer
Chastity Bono

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
Pancake Day - UK

" Charter of Pennsylvania granted (1681)
Battle of Ile d'Aix (7 Years War; 1758)
The Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (1789)
Vermont became the 14th state (1791)
" George Washington was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States. He gave an inauguration speech of only 133 words. It remains the shortest inauguration speech to date. (1793)
" John Adams was inaugurated as the second president of the United States. (1797)
" Thomas Jefferson inaugurated. Jefferson became the first President of the U.S. to be sworn into office in Washington, D.C. (1801)
" National Lifeboat Institution founded (1824)
" Crowds mob the White House during the inaugural reception for President Jackson. (1829)
" 1st Former President returned to Congress (John Quincy Adams; 1830)
" Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States. (1861)
" The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded in Chicago. (1902)
" Ding Ling died (1904)
" President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration is broadcast live on radio coast to coast. (1925)
" Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to lead the country out of the Great Depression during his inauguration speech. (1933)
" 1st Woman appointed to US Cabinet (1933)
" General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila (1945)
" Professional Tennis Players 1st allowed to play at Wimbledon (1968)
" Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr announced plans to begin the Poor People's Campaign. (1968)
" Longest Survival on a Raft began (118 2/3 days; 1973)
" Bowling record for consecutive strikes set at 33 (1976)
" Television Academy Hall of Fame was established. Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman Lear, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley, and David Sarnoff were the first inductees. (1984)
" Pope John Paul II declares Salman Rusdie's Satanic Verses "blasphemous" (1989)
" Time Incorporated and Warner Communications Incorporated announce plans to merge into the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate. (1989)
" A $69 million class-action lawsuit was filed in San Francisco against the U.S. federal government by 8,600 Amerasian children who claimed their U.S. military fathers abandoned them in the Philippines. (1993)
" Four Arab defendants were found guilty of all counts against them in relation to the bombing of New York's World Trade Center Complex in February, 1993. The blast underneath the world famous Twin Towers caused six deaths and injured more than one thousand others. (1994)
" An oceanside memorial was held in Hawaii for nine people from a Japanese fishing boat who were killed when their vessel was accidentally sunk by a U.S. submarine. (2001)
" Cortez landed in Mexico
" Harlem established
1st Printed Checks issued
" Society of Friends founded

" First of Muharram - Islam. The first day of the first month of the Islamic year 4121 CE. This day commemorates the migrtion of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE where the first Islamic community was established. Muharram lasts
for ten days.

Shrove Tuesday - Christian. Day before Lent. Taken from the old word 'shrive', it means forgiveness. Traditionally it was a time to give up meat and dairy foods. The British and Canadians make pancakes; Italians cook omelettes; Poles make special donuts called paczki. The Portuguese throw baby powder at each other; in Quebec, the Mardi Gras celebrations are held over the week-end; the Dutch have a Mardi Gras festival; the Russians use up all their butter; the Germans hold festivities called Fasching; the Brazilians hold a Carnival Ball.

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 (Festival of Flowers & Ancestor's Ghosts Wanderings)

Ash Wednesday (Lent begins) - Christian
Marks the beginning of Lent. Ash symbolizes sorrow for wrong doings and
foreheads of churchgoers are marked with the shape of the cross with ashes
as a sign of penitence. During the forty days of Lent, Christians pray and
fast to imitate Jesus' withdrawl into the wilderness before his crucifixion.

" Chinese Calendar 1st began (1953 BCE)
" Henry VI deposed by Duke of York (1461)
" Boston Massacre. Five people were killed when British troops opened fire on a crowd of colonists. Crispus Attucks, one of the five people killed, became the first black to die for American freedom.(1770)
" Samuel Colt manufactured the first pistol.
" James Monroe was inaugurated as President of the United States.
" Hall of Fame established (1900)
1st Old Age Pensions created (Montana & Nevada; 1923)
" Birdseye perfected frozen food process (1930)
" Nazis began drafting 16-year old boys into Hitler Youth (1945)
" Winston Churchill delivered his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, coining the term "Iron Curtain" (1946)
" Joseph Stalin died of brain hemorrhage (1953)
" Actor Jay Silverheels died at the age of 61. He is best remembered for his role as Tonto on "The Lone Ranger." (1980)
" Switzerland announced plans to establish a $4.7 billion government-financed fund, using interest from its gold reserves, to compensate survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and their descendants. (1997)
" North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years to talk peace. (1997)
" "The Osbournes" made its debut on MTV. The show features cameras following the every move of aging heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon and teenage children, Kelly and Jack. (2002)
" Air Brake patented
" 8 Hour, 5 Day work week began
" Amazing Spiderman #1 published
" Parachute invented (by Da Vinci)
" Cabot received a commission to discover lands for England

1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter/sculptor (Caprese, Italy; died 1564)
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (near Durham, England; died 1861)
1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (Russia; died 1908)
1923 Ed McMahon, TV personality (Detroit, MI)
1924 Sarah Caldwell, conductor (Maryville, MO)
1926 Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (New York, NY)
1927 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (Shawnee, OK)
1928 Gabriel García Márquez, novelist (Arcata, Colombia)
1936 Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington, DC (Itta Bena, MS)
1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer (Gisborne, New Zealand)
1945 Rob Reiner, actor/director (Bronx, NY)
1959 Tom Arnold, actor (Ottumwa, IA)
1972 Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player (Newark, NJ)
Ed McMahon

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
Alamo Day - Mexican/USA

" Guam discovered (1521)
" Fall of the Alamo. Mexican General Santa Anna and his army captured the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, after a 13-day battle. Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie were among the 187 U.S. soldiers killed during the siege. Oonly 15 women, children and
servants were spared. (1836)
" Verdi's La Traviata premiered (1853)
" Nora Blatch became the first woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers (1906)
" U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case. The court ruled black Americans were not full citizens. The Dred Scot decision invalidated Missouri Compromise (1857)
FDR ordered all banks to close (1933)
" Silly Putty invented (1950)
" Larry Hisle of the Minnesota Twins became the first designated hitter in major league baseball history. (1973)
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, shot and paralyzed (1978)
Voyager I flew past Jupiter (1979)
" CBS newsman Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News." He was replaced by Dan Rather. (1981)
" USFL established
" 1st Steel Ship built

1872 Piet Mondrian, painter (Netherlands; died 1944)
1875 Maurice Ravel, composer (France; died 1937)
1908 Anna Magnani, actress (Italy; died 1973)
1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), photographer and former husband of England's Princess Margaret (London, England)
1934 Willard Scott, weatherman/TV personality (Alexandria, VA)
1938 Janet Guthrie, auto racer (Iowa City, IA)
1940 Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Kenosha, WI)
1942 Michael Eisner, Disney Co. executive (New York, NY)
1945 John Heard, actor (Washington, DC)
1950 Franco Harris, football player (Fort Dix, NJ)
1955 Gary Sinise, actor (Blue Island, IL)
1960 Ivan Lendl, tennis champion (Ostrava, Czechoslovakia)
Bill Scott (voice of Bullwinkle)

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)

" Telephone patented (1876)
" 1st Non-stop flight from Paris to London (1912)
" 1st Jazz Record issued (1917)
" Distinguished Service Medal established (US; 1918)
" Remagen Bridge captured by Allied troops -WW2; (1945)
" Switzerland voted to give women the vote (1971)
" Salvador Dali Museum opened at St. Petersburg, Florida; (1982)
" Students at Gallaudet University for the Deaf protested the election of a non-deaf president (1988)
" Pennsylvania Tax Rebellion

1859 Kenneth Grahame, children's author (Edinburgh, Scotland; died 1932)
1902 Louise Beavers, actress (Cincinnati, OH; died 1962)
1909 Claire Trevor, actress (New York, NY; died 2000)
1921 Cyd Charisse, actress/dancer (Amarillo, TX)
1943 Lynn Redgrave, actress (London, England)
1945 Mickey Dolenz, singer and member of the Monkees (Los Angeles, CA)
1947 Carole Bayer Sager, songwriter/singer (New York, NY)
1959 Aidan Quinn, actor (Chicago, IL)
1963 Kathy Ireland, model (Santa Barbara, CA)
1976 Freddie Prinze Jr., actor (Albuquerque, NM)
1977 James Van Der Beek, actor (Cheshire, CT)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., author
Sophocles
Alan Hale Jr., actor, the "Skipper"
Jim Bouten, baseball player
Julian Lennon, singer and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Farmer's 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
National Peanut Cluster Day
St. Pontius' Day
Day of No Interest to Fairies (Fairy)
Syria Revolution Day
Working Women's Day
" International Women's Day - UN (Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Nepal, USSR)
This occasion is marked by women's groups around the world. Women, often divided by national boundaries, come together to celebrate this Day when they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

" 1st Illustrated Book published: Caxton's Mirror of the World; UK; (1481)
" Train crossed the 1st suspension bridge (Niagra Falls; 1855)
" Ulysses S. Grant made commander-in-chief of Northen Armies (1864)
" Malcolm X split from Nation of Islam (1964)
" China imposed martial law in Tibet after protests (1988)
" International Whaling Commission outlawed harpoon use on great whales (1982)
" Combat Troops 1st arrived in Vietnam

1451 Amerigo Vespucci, explorer (Florence, Italy; died 1512)
1918 Mickey Spillane, writer (Brooklyn, NY)
1926 Irene Papas, actress (Chiliomedion, Greece)
1930 Ornette Coleman, composer/saxophonist (Fort Worth, TX)
1934 Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut and 1st person to travel in space (Gzhatsk, USSR; died 1968)
1936 Mickey Gilley, country singer/musician (Natchez, MS)
Marty Ingels, actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1940 Raul Julia, actor (San Juan, Puerto Rico; died 1994)
1943 Bobby Fischer, chess champion (Chicago, IL)
Trish Van Devere, actress (Tenafly, NJ)
1948 Jeffrey Osborne, musician/songwriter (Providence, RI)
1960 Linda Fiorentino, actress (Philadelphia, PA)
1965 Brian Bosworth, football player (Oklahoma City, OK)
1922 Benito Santiago, baseball player (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
Alan Ladd
Emmanuel Lewis

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)

" Kissing in public made punishable by death (Naples; 1562)
" Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine married (1796)
" French Foreign Legion founded (1831)
" Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac (1862)
" Tokyo bombed by 343 Superfortresses (WW2; 1945)
" Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, defected to the West (1967)
" 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)
" The Snake River (Idaho/Oregon) was declared the most endangered river in the US for the 2nd year in a row. (2000)
" Dog 1st sent in space
" 1st V-8 Engine built
" Artificial Teeth patented

1867 Lillian Wald, social worker/reformer (Cincinnati, OH; died 1940)
1888 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Ireland; died 1961)
1903 Claire Boothe Luce, playwright/politician (New York, NY; died 1987)
1940 Chuck Norris, actor (Ryan, OK)
David Rabe, playwright (Dubuque, IA)
1947 Bob Greene, journalist (Columbus, OH)
1958 Sharon Stone, actress (Meadville, PA)
1964 Jasmine Guy, actress (Boston, MA)
Prince Edward, youngest son of England's Queen Elizabeth II (London, England)
1966 Edie Brickell, singer (Oak Cliff, TX)
1977 Shannon Miller, champion gymnast (Edmond, OK)
Sam Jaffe
James Herriot, author
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

" Christopher Columbus founded Santo Domingo (1496)
" US Paper Money 1st issued (1862)
" Alexander Graham Bell sent the first clear telephone message. The first words spoken into his new invention were quote, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." (1876)
" Salvation Army founded in US (1880)
" 1st Film shot in Hollywood (1910)
" Suffragette attacked Velasquez' Rokeby Venus with a Meat Cleaver at the National Gallery (London; 1914)
" Benny Goodman earned the nickname "The King of Swing" following a performance at New York's Paramount Theatre. (1937)
" 300 United States B-29 bombers launched an air assault on Tokyo. The attack, known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid, killed 100-thousand people. (1945)
" James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder. (1969)
" Japanese soldier found hiding on Lubang Island in Philippines, believing World War 2 was still going (1974)
" Rings of Uranus discovered (1977)
" New show Nightline named (1980)
" Jupiter Effect occured (1982)
" Russian leader Konstantin Chernenko died after only 13 months in office. (1985)
" Pope John Paul the Second approved the sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. Drexel was canonized in October 2000. (2000)
" Dante's Inferno published
" George Orwell's book "1984" published
" 1st Old Age Home opened
" 1st Badminton Tournament held

1903 Lawrence Welk, bandleader/TV personality (Strasburg, ND; died 1992)
1916 Harold Wilson, British prime minister (Yorkshire, England; died 1995)
1931 Rupert Murdoch, publisher/media executive (Melbourne, Australia)
1934 Sam Donaldson, TV journalist (El Paso, TX)
1936 Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice (Trenton, NJ)
1950 Bobby McFerrin, jazz musician/singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1952 Douglas Adams, writer (Cambridge, England)
1956 Dana Delaney, actress (New York, NY)
Tina Louise
Lulu
Dorothy Gish
Marius Petipa
Bobby McFerrin, singer
Ralph Abernathy
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)

Ram Navami - Hindu

" Shakespeare's characters Romeo and Juliet married (1302)
" 1st Daily English Newspaper "The Daily Courant" published (1702)
" British Luddites attack machines meant to replace them (1811)
" Mary Shelley's Frankenstein published (1818)
" John Chapman - better known as "Johnny Appleseed" -- died in Allen County, Indiana. This day became known as "Johnny Appleseed Day." (1847)
" 1st Women's Medical College incorporated (1850)
" Confederate States adopted their own constitution at Confederate Convention held in Montgomery, Alabama. (1861)
" Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts in Hawaii (1867)
" U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world's richest man. (1901)
" Save the Redwoods Foundation formed (1918)
" The Flatheads Gang stole $104,250 in the first armored-car robbery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (1927)
" General MacArthurs makes his famous "I Shall Return" remark while leaving the Philippines (1942)
" Reginald Weir became the first black tennis player to participate in a US Indoor Lawn Tennis Association tournament. (1948)
" Charles Van Doren threw a game of Twenty-One on national TV (1957)
" Gene Roddenberry first proposed a series called "Star Trek" to MGM Studios.
(1964)
Pound Notes replaced by pound coins (UK; 1988)
" Cease-fire declared in the war between Iran and Iraq. (1988)
" 13-year old Jennifer Capriati played her 1st pro tennis match (1990)
" Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to become the first female attorney general. (1993)
" Paul McCartney knighted (1997)
" An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant caused 35 workers to be exposed to low levels of radioactivity. The incident was the worst in Japan's history. (1997)
" The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth. (1998)
" Witchcraft Trials began
" Bureau of Indian Affairs established
" 1st Electric Oven for sale
" Heath Hen declared extinct

1881 Kemal Ataturk, Turkish leader (Salonika, Greece; died 1938)
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (Russia; died 1950)
1922 Jack Kerouac, poet/novelist (Lowell, MA; died 1969)
1923 Wally Schirra, astronaut (Hackensack, NJ)
1928 Edward Albee, playwright (Washington, DC)
1932 Andrew Young, politician/civil rights leader (New Orleans, LA)
1940 Al Jarreau, singer/songwriter (Milwaukee, WI)
1941 Barbara Feldon, actress (Pittsburgh, PA)
1946 Liza Minnelli, singer/actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1948 James Taylor, singer/songwriter (Boston, MA)
1956 Dale Murphy, baseball player (Portland, OR)
1960 Courtney B. Vance, actor (Detroit, MI)
1962 Darryl Strawberry, baseball player (Los Angeles, CA)
Clement Studebaker
Mstislav Rostropovich
Barbara Feldon
Paul Kantner
Al Jarreau
Marlon Jackson

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

Girl Scout Day - USA/Canada

Lent begins - Eastern Orthodox

" Chelsea Hospital founded (1682)
" The first steam-engine used. (1755)
" US Post Office established (1789)
" the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate. (1868)
" 1st Exhibition of Cubist Art (Paris; 1909)
" Girl Scouts founded. The group was originally known as the American Girl Guides. (1912)
" Canberra made capital of Australia (1913)
" 1st Fireside Chat given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (1933)
" Germany annexed Austria (1938)
" 1st Magazine article written about dope smoking (1938)
" Anne Frank died in a concentration camp at the age of 16. (1945)
" Dennis the Menace debuted (1951)
" Civil rights activist Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam. (1964)
" A Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy guilty of 33 murders. He was later sentenced to death. (1980)
" Lithuania declared independence from USSR (1990)
" 1st Automobile accident involving 2 cars both equipped with air bags (1990)
" In an unprecedented moment in the history of the church, Pope John Paul the Second asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities. (2000)
" The World Health Organization first issues a global alert about SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, which originated in Viet Nam and China and rapidly spread, causing hundreds of deaths. (2003).
" Destruction of the One Ring (in "Lord of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien)
" 1st Library opened
" Gregorian Chants named
" 1st Parachute jump from a plane
" 1st Uniformed Police Force started
" Tutu 1st worn

1733 Joseph Priestly, scientist/clergyman (Fieldhead, England; died 1804)
1855 Percival Lowell, astronomer (Boston, MA; died 1916)
1908 Walter H. Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist (Milwaukee, WI)
1911 L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer and founder of Scientology (Tilden, NE; died 1986)
1929 Helen Candaele St. Aubin (Helen Callaghan), star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; died 1992)
1939 Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1950 William H. Macy, actor (Miami, FL)
1953 Deborah Raffin, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1957 Glenne Headly, actress (New London, CT)
1960 Adam Clayton, musician (Dublin, Ireland)
Uncle Sam
Frank "Home Run" Baker
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)

" Great Prayer Festival (Tibet)
" 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)
" National Coconut Tort Day
" Sticking Very Close Together for Fairies of the Fourth and Fifth Flights (Fairy)

" Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz, Germany. Johannes Gutenberg invented a way of mechanising the production of printing type, as distinct from individually engraved or cast letters. This was the beginning of the mass production of books. About 180 copies were printed and significant parts of 48 copies still survive. (circa 1454-5)
" Harvard College founded, named after clergyman John Harvard. (1639)
" Father Eusebio Kino began his missionary work in US Southwest, introducing the Spanish horse to America (1687)
" Halley's Comet passed near the Earth and was noticed by Europeans for the 1st time (1758)
" 12 Mayan temples destroyed by Spanish Conquistadors
" Uranus discovered (1781)
" The "Uncle Sam" cartoon was seen for the first time in "The New York Lantern." The character was modeled after Samuel Wilson, a real U.S. officer who served in the War of 1812. (1852)
" President Jefferson Davis signed a bill stating that slaves were subject to military duty in the Confederate Army. (1865)
" Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States. (1884)
" Pluto discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh (1930)
" Nazi Germany invaded Austria (1938)
" 79-year old Pablo Picasso married his 37-year old model, Jacqueline Rocque (1961)
" In a case that drew much notoriety, 38 residents of a Queens, New York neighborhood failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager who was stabbed to death. (1964)
" Arab Oil Embargo ended (1974)
" Charles De Gaulle Airport opened (Paris; 1974)
" Grenada Revolution began (1979)
" Exxon Corporation agreed to pay a 100-million dollar criminal fine and more than 900-million dollars in civil damages following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (1991)
" Publication of the official Soviet Communist Party newspaper "Pravda," stopped due to lack of funds. The paper was founded in 1912. (1992)
" Earmuffs patented
" 1st Perfect 300 Bowling Game bowled
" 1st Transatlantic Radio broadcast

" Great Prayer Festival (Tibet) - Monks from the Three Great Monasteries of Tibet assemble in Jikhang to pray to Shayamuni's image as if it were the Living Buddha. Philosophical debates are held among the candidates for the Doctor of Metaphysics. Pilgrims come from every corner of Tibet and donations are offered to monks.

1864 Casey Jones, railroad engineer and hero of the ballad (near Cayce, KY; died 1900)
1879 Albert Einstein, physicist (Ulm, Germany; died 1955)
1916 Horton Foote, playwright (Wharton, TX)
1920 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist and creator of Dennis the Menace (Seattle, WA)
1928 Frank Borman, astronaut/airline executive (Gary, IN)
1933 Michael Caine, actor (London, England)
Quincy Jones, composer/record producer (Chicago, IL)
1942 Rita Tushingham, actress (Liverpool, England)
1947 Billy Crystal, actor/comedian (Long Beach, NY)
1946 Steve Kanaly, actor (Burbank, CA)
1951 Rick Dees, radio personality/comedian (Jacksonville, FL)
1961 Kirby Puckett, baseball player (Chicago, IL)
1969 Larry Johnson, basketball player (Tyler, TX)
Johann Strauss

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)
Pi Day
A day [March 14 (3.14)] to celebrate our favorite number, 3.14159. Celebrated by engineers, mathematicians, students, people everywhere!!

" Spain expelled 150,000 Jews (1492)
" Charles II granted William Penn charter for Pennsylvania to pay off debts owed to Penn's father (1681)
" Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin. The invention made it possible to clean 50-pounds of cotton per day. (1794)
" Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado premiered (1885)
" International Copyright Act passed (1891)
" US adopted the gold standard (1900)
" Stock Market Crash (NYC; 1907)
" President Warren G. Harding became the first president to pay taxes and account for his income. (1923)
" National Civil Liberties Council founded (UK; 1934)
" FBI released its first Ten Most Wanted list. (1950)
" Recording Industry Association of America certified the first gold record. The song was Perry Como's "Catch a Falling Star." (1958)
" New English Bible published (1961)
" A jury in Dallas, Texas, found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby died of cancer while waiting for a new trial. (1964)
" Jockey Bill Shoemaker earned career victory number seven-thousand. (1976)
" Andorra voted to end its feudal system and adopted a parliamentary government (1993)

" 1st Town Meeting
" War Bonds authorized
" 1st Bird Reservation opened
" Lewis & Clark began their explorations
" Battle of New Berne

1767 Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States and hero of the War of 1812 (Waxhaw, SC; died 1845)
1923 Laurence Tisch, entertainment executive (New York, NY)
1926 Norm Van Brocklin, football quarterback and coach (Eagle Butte, SD; died 1983)
1932 Alan Bean, astronaut (Wheeler, TX)
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice (Brooklyn, NY)
1935 Judd Hirsch, actor (New York, NY)
1941 Mike Love, singer/musician and member of the Beach Boys (Los Angeles, CA)
1944 Sly Stone, singer/musician (Dallas, TX)
1954 Craig Wasson, actor (Ontario, OR)
1961 Fabio, actor/model (Milan, Italy)
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)
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

Adam's Peak Pilgrimage - Sri Lanka

" Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BCE)
" Maine became the 23rd state (1820)
" Cincinnati Red Stocking became 1st pro baseball team (1869)
" 1st Cardinal posted in US at St. Patrick's (NYC; 1875)
" Nicholas II of Russia abdicated (1917)
" Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich, banning newpapers & kosher food (1933)
" 1st Blood Bank opened (1937)
" American Legion founded (1919)
" Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Mora, former Italian Prime Minister (1978)
" Watts Riot (1966)
" Washington's Farewell Address to his troops
" Oxygen discovered
" 1st Glider tested
" Battle of Guilford
" Escalator patented

1751 James Madison, 4th president of the United States (Port Conway, VA; died 1836)
1822 Rosa Bonheur, painter (Bordeaux, France; died 1899)
1912 Pat Nixon, first lady of the United States (Ely, NV; died 1993)
1920 Leo McKern, actor (New South Wales, Australia)
1926 Jerry Lewis, actor/comedian (Newark, NJ)
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, senator/diplomat/author (Tulsa, OK)
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci, director (Parma, Italy)
1942 Chuck Woolery, TV personality (Ashland, KY)
1949 Erik Estrada, actor (New York, NY)
1951 Kate Nelligan, actress (London, Ontario, Canada)
1955 Isabelle Huppert, actress (Paris, France)
Georg S. Ohm
Judge Roy Bean
Henny Youngman, comedian
Nancy Wilson, singer

" Gahambar Hamaspathmaedem - Zorostian / Fasli holiday celebrates the creation of human beings.
" Dionysus' Day
" Feast of Bacchus
" Everything You Do Is Right Day
" Wild Spring Flower Festival (India)
" Curlew 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

" Typoo of Mysore surrendered to British (1792)
" US Military Academy at West Point established (1802)
" William of Orange crowned William I (1815)
" 1st African-American Newspaper published (1827)
" 1st Law to license automobiles passed (California; 1901)
" 1st Liquid Fuel Rocket launched (1926)
" Gemini 8 launched (1966)
" My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, where US Army troops of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, murdered over 300 unarmed civilians including women, children, and the elderly. (1968)
" New London Bridge opened (1973)
" NFL rule added that plays be whistled dead whenever QB clearly tackled (1979)
" Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on Hardin's Olympic-rival Nancy Kerrigan, avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine. (1994)
" 1st Cup Final (Soccer)
" Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet premiered

1777 Roger B. Taney, chief justice of the Supreme Court (Calvert County, MD; died 1864)
1787 Edmund Kean, actor (Britain; died 1833)
1846 Kate Greenaway, children's illustrator (Britain; died 1901)
1902 Bobby Jones, golfer (Atlanta, GA; died 1971)
1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader (West Chester, PA; died 1987)
1918 Mercedes McCambridge, actress (Joliet, IL)
1919 Nat "King" Cole, singer (Montgomery, AL; died 1965)
1938 Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer (Siberia, USSR; died 1993)
1944 Cito Gaston, baseball player and manager (San Antonio, TX)
1945 Tony Dow, actor (Hollywood, CA)
1949 Patrick Duffy, actor (Townsend, MT)
1951 Kurt Russell, actor (Springfield, MA)
1959 Danny Ainge, basketball player and coach (Eugene, OR)
1964 Rob Lowe, actor (Charlottesville, VA)
Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer
Chaim Gross
Dianecht (480 BCE)

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)

St. Patrick's Day - Ireland
The death anniversary of their patron saint. He used the three-leaved
shamrock to explain the Christian idea of the Holy Trinity, thus the idea of
wearing of a shamrock.

Canberra Day - Australia

" St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland died on this date.(461AD)
" St. Patrick's Day was celebrated publicly in the U.S. for the first time. (1756)
" George Washington forced the British troops to evacuate Boston. (1776)
" Edward, the Black Prince made 1st Duke of Cornwall (1337)
" England repealed Stamp Act (1766)
" 1st Sidewheel Steamboat, The New Orleans launched (1811)
" Rubber Band patented by Stephen Perry of London (1845)
" Austrian physicist Christian Doppler died. His study on the effects of velocity helped develop the Doppler Effect, which greatly influenced radar, navigation and astronomy.
(1853)
" 1st Radio Distress Signal sent from a ship (1899)
" Camp Fire Girls organization was founded. (1910)
" United States launched Vanguard One. It became the second U.S. satellite to orbit Earth.
(1958)
" UN International Maritime Organization established (1958)
" Major uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule forced The Dalai Lama to flee the area in disguise. (1959)
" Jackie Robinson signed as a member of ABC-TV, becoming the first black person to receive a network position broadcasting baseball. (1965)
" Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis, who were convicted in 1966 of a bar room murder, had their convictions overturned. The case was the impetus for the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane."
(1976)
" Carol Moseley-Braun defeated Illinois Senator Alan Dixon in a primary re-election bid to become the first African-American female Senator. (1992)
" International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal. (1999)
" Smith and Wesson signed an unprecedented agreement with the Clinton administration to include safety locks with all of its handguns to make them more childproof. In return, the
agreement called for federal, state and city lawsuits against the gun maker to be dropped.
(2000)
" US President George W. Bush launches a war on Iraq without support from the U.N, the US House, or the majority of US citizens. (2003)
" National Gallery of Art opened (US)
" 1st Yacht Club established
" New 1 Pound Notes issued (UK)
" Camp Fire Girls established
" 1st Practical Submarine built
" Victor Emmanuel crowned King of Italy

1782 John C. Calhoun, statesman/vice president of the United States (Abbeville District, SC; died 1850)
1837 Grover Cleveland, 22d and 24th president of the United States (Caldwell, NJ; died 1908)
1842 Stéphane Mallarmé, poet (France; died 1898)
1869 Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister (Britain; died 1940)
1926 Peter Graves, actor (Minneapolis, MN)
1927 George Plimpton, writer (New York, NY)
1932 John Updike, novelist (Shillington, PA)
1936 Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African president (Johannesburg, South Africa)
1939 Charley Pride, singer (Sledge, MS)
1941 Wilson Pickett, singer/songwriter (Prattville, AL)
1956 Ingemar Stenmark, Olympic champion skier (Sweden)
1959 Irene Cara, singer/actress (Bronx, NY)
1963 Vanessa Williams, singer/actress (New York, NY)
1964 Bonnie Blair, Olympic champion speedskater (Cornwall, NY)
1970 Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (East Orange, NJ)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Edgar Cayce, psychic prophet
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

" One of the Dead Sea Scrolls written (385 BCE)
" Last Grand Master of Knights Templer, Jacques De Molay, burned at the stake (1314)
" 1st Public Bus Service began (Paris; 1662)
Stamp Act repealed (1766)
" Paris Commune established (1871)
" Electric Shavers 1st for sale (1931)
" Kamikazes 1st attacked US ships (WW2; 1945)
" NATO established (1949)
" 1st Walk in Space taken (1965)
" NFL began putting player's names on jerseys (1970)
" Roger Bannister became 1st man to run 1 mile in under 4 minutes (1950)
" 1st Recorded Flood in US
" 1st Motor Bus built

" Holi - Hindu-Sikh
According to myth, a tyrannical king's son, Prahlad, refused to worship his
father as God and was condemned to death by burning. However, the boy's
aunt, named Holika, transferred her own immunity from fire to Prahlad, and
burned to death in his place. This festival of colour celebrates Spring,
where people play with liquid and powdered colours, light bonfires and blow
horns to celebrate the destruction of Holika.

" Purim - Jewish
Known as the feats of Lots, celebrates the deliverance of Jews in Persia
from the machinations of Haman. Jews dress in costume and give gifts of
food to each other.

" Butter-Lamp Festival (Tibet)
To celebrate Shakyamuni's victory over non-Buddhist opponents, in 1409, Lord
Neu Dzong, a notes patron of Tsongkapa, illuminated numerous butter lamps.
The tradition has since then flourished.

1589 William Bradford, Pilgrim and governor of Plymouth Colony (Yorkshire, England; died 1657)
1813 David Livingstone, physician/missionary/explorer (Blantyre, Scotland; died 1873)
1847 William Pinkham Ryder, artist (New Bedford, MA; died 1917)
1848 Wyatt Earp, Western lawman/gunfighter/gambler (Monmouth, IL; died 1881)
1860 William Jennings Bryan, orator/politician/presidential candidate (Salem, IL; died 1925)
1891 Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court (Los Angeles, CA; died 1974)
1904 John Sirica, judge during the Watergate trials (Waterbury, CT; died 1992)
1905 Albert Speer, Nazi architect (Germany; died 1981)
1906 Adolf Eichmann, Nazi leader (Germany; died 1962)
1928 Patrick McGoohan, actor (New York, NY)
1933 Philip Roth, novelist (Newark, NJ)
1936 Ursula Andress, actress (Bern, Switzerland)
1947 Glenn Close, actress (Greenwich, CT)
1955 Bruce Willis, actor (West Germany)
Charles M. Russell
Moms Mabley, singer
Lynda Bird Johnson
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

Hola Mohalla (Sikh)
Mock battles are fought and martial arts are displayed in honor of Guru
Gobind Singh, who took to armed struggle against tyranny.

St. Joseph's Day - Christian

" 1st Recorded Eclipse of the Sun (721 BCE)
" 1st US Bank Robbery (NYC; 1831)
" League of Nations not ratified by US (1920)
" Alka Seltzer 1st for sale (1931)
" Elvis Presley bought Graceland (1957)
" 1st Planetarium in UK opened (1958)
" Evangelist Jim Bakker resigned in disgrace (1987)
" Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
" Standard Time Act passed (1918)
" Battle of Falkland Islands began
" Santa Clara University founded

1828 Henrik Ibsen, playwright (Skien, Norway; died 1906)
1904 B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (Susquehanna, PA; died 1990)
1908 Michael Redgrave, actor (Britain; died 1985)
1922 Carl Reiner, actor/comedian (Bronx, NY)
1928 Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers"), children's entertainer (Latrobe, PA)
1930 Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Stough, England)
1931 Hal Linden, actor/singer (New York, NY)
1937 Jerry Reed, singer/songwriter (Atlanta, GA)
1939 Brian Mulroney, Canadian prime minister (Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada)
1945 Pat Riley, basketball coach (Rome, NY)
1948 Bobby Orr, hockey player (Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada)
1950 William Hurt, actor (Washington, DC)
1957 Spike Lee, filmmaker (Atlanta, GA)
1958 Holly Hunter, actress (Conyers, GA)
Ovid
Isaac Newton
Ozzie Nelson
Mitsumasa Anno
Sviatislav Richter
Friedrich Holderin
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)

" Dutch East India Company founded (1602)
" Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament (1653)
" Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1st Detective Story, published (1841)
" Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852)
" Radar 1st demonstrated (1934)
" John Lennon married Yoko Ono (1969)
" Patty Hearst found guilty of helping SLA (1976)
" James Cagney died (1986)
" Mount St. Helens was shaken by a 4.0 earthquake. (1980)
" Switzerland declared perpetual neutrality
" 1st Radio Telephone built
" South Pacific premiered

1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (Eisanach, Germany; died 1750)
1806 Benito Juarez, Mexican president and revolutionary leader (Oaxaca, Mexico; died 1872)
1910 Julio Gallo, vintner (Oakland, CA; died 1993)
1920 Eric Rohmer, director (France)
1934 Al Freeman Jr., actor (San Antonio, TX)
1944 Timothy Dalton, actor (Colwyn Bay, Wales)
1958 Gary Oldman, actor (London, England)
1962 Matthew Broderick, actor (New York, NY)
Rosie O'Donnell, TV personality/actress (Commack, NY)
1966 Cynthia Geary, actress (Jackson, MS)
Mr. T
James Coco
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)

" The final group of Mayflower passengers disembarked, having spent the winter aboard (1621)
" France's Napoleonic Code in effect (1804)
" Wiliam Miller claimed the world would end on this day in 1843 . . then 1844
" 1st Air Passenger Plane flew over Paris (1908)
" UK National Health Service announced (1946)
" Alcatraz Prison closed (1963)
" New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman renamed a Route 295 rest stop after Howard Stern, fulfulling a campaign promise (1995)
Boeing announced plans to move its headquarters out of Seattle. (2001)
" 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
" 1st Old Soldier's Home opened

Naw Ruz (New Year) Bahai, Zorostrian, Iran, Afghanistan, Kurd - It means "new day" and is the New Year for these faiths. It also celebrates
the creation of fire and is the day on which Zarathustra received his revelation.

Ohigon - Japan, Korea- During this time of the spring equinox, Buddhists meditate on the harmony in
the universe.

Shunki-sorei-sai (Shinto) - Ancestors are given reverence at home altars and considered active members of the living family. Gravesites are cleaned and purified.

Eostre (Wicca)
A fertility festival celebrating the birth of Spring. The word Easter is derived from the Maiden Goddess. Celebrations including lighting fires at sunrise, ringing bells, and decorating hard-boiled eggs, an ancient Pagan custom associated with the Goddess of Fertility.

Spring Equinox

Week of Solidarity with People Struggling against Racism UN - March 21 to 28

1846 Randolph Caldecott, author/illustrator (Britain; died 1886)
1913 Karl Malden, actor (Chicago, IL)
1919 Werner Klemperner, actor (Cologne, Germany; died 2000)
1923 Marcel Marceau, mime (Strasbourg, France)
1930 Pat Robertson, religious broadcasting executive and presidential candidate (Lexington, VA)
1922 Stephen Sondheim, composer/lyricist (New York, NY)
1931 William Shatner, actor (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
1934 Orrin Hatch, senator (Homestead Park, PA)
1943 George Benson, singer/musician (Pittsburgh, PA)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer (London, England)
1952 Bob Costas, sportscaster (New York, NY)
1959 Matthew Modine, actor (Loma Linda, CA)
1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (New York, NY)
1972 Elvis Stojko, champion figure skater (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada)
William Shatner
James T. Kirk (2228)
Chico Marx
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Orrin Hatch
Pat Robertson

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

Emancipation Day - Puerto Rico

World Day for Water - UN

" Carbonated Water discovered by Joseph Priestly (1733)
" Stamp Act imposed by England (1765)
" Patrick Henry gave his "Give me liberty or give me death speech" (1775)
" UK Parliament buys 38 paintings to begin National Collection (1824)
" Puerto Rico abolished slavery (1873)
" English Football League founded (1888)
" 1st Women's College Basketball Game played (1893)
" Niagra Falls ran out of water due to a drought (1903)
" 1st Color Pictures in a Newspaper (1904)
" The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation. (1941)
" Laser patented (1960)
" Equal Rights Amendment sent to the states for ratification, winning Senate approval. (1972)
" Hale-Bopp comet came closest to Earth (4 a.m.; 1997)
" Arab League Pact signed
" Cornstarch patented
" International Airline service began

1900 Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst (Germany; died 1980)
1910 Akira Kurosawa, director (Tokyo, Japan; died 1998)
1912 Werner von Braun, engineer/rocketry pioneer (Germany; died 1977)
1929 Roger Bannister, runner and 1st man to break the 4-minute mile (Harrow, Middlesex, England)
1953 Louie Anderson, comedian/actor (Minneapolis, MN)
Chaka Khan, singer (Great Lakes, IL)
1955 Moses Malone, basketball player (Petersburg, VA)
1957 Amanda Plummer, actress (New York, NY)
1973 Jason Kidd, basketball player (San Francisco, CA)
1976 Keri Russell, actress (Fountain Valley, CA)
Akira Kurosawa
Fannie Farmer, cookbook author
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)

World Meteorological Day - UN

" Pedro the Cruel, King of Castille, murdered by his brother Henry (1369)
" Canada's 1st Newspaper published (1752)
" Lewis & Clark began their trip back from the Northwest (1806)
" Benito Mussolini founded Fascist " Party in Italy (1919)
" Tennessee outlawed Teaching of Evolution (1925)
" UN World Meteorlogical Organization established (1950)
" Barney Clark, 1st permanent heart transplant recipient, died after 112 days (1983)
" 1st Group of Heaven's Gate cult members committed suicide (1997)
" Cable Car patented
" 1st Photographic Portrait Studio opened
" Nellie Melba revealed her Melba Toast recipe
" Handel's Messiah premiered
" Rivet patented

1834 William Morris, poet/artist (Walthamstow, England; died 1896)
1855 Andrew Mellon, financier/industrialist (Pittsburgh, PA; died 1937)
1874 Harry Houdini, magician escaped from his mother's womb (Budapest, Hungary; died 1926)
1893 George Sisler, baseball player (Manchester, OH; died 1973)
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet/author (Yonkers, NY)
1924 Normal Fell, actor (Philadelphia, PA; died 1998)
1940 Bob Mackie, costume/fashion designer (Monterey Park, CA)
1954 Donna Pescow, actress (Brooklyn, NY)
1964 Annabella Sciorra, actress (New York, NY)
1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (Davenport, IA)
Ub Iwerks
John Wesley Powell
Georgius Agricola
Steve McQueen
Clyde Barrow
Thomas E. Dewey
Bob Mackie
Wilhelm Reich
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

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

" James I crowned King of England
" UK Parliament passed Quartering Act (1765)
" 1st Air Transport Company incorporated (London; 1843)
" Denmark abolished capital punishment (1911)
" Sylvester debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1945)
" Beaver became a royal emblem of Canada (1975)
" 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)
" Cold Fusion announced (1989)
" Library of Congress opened
" Bomb invented
" Elvis Presley drafted

1867 Arturo Toscanini, conductor (Parma, Italy; died 1957)
1871 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mt. Rushmore (Bear Lake, ID; died 1941)
1881 Bela Bartok, composer (Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary; died 1945)
1908 David Lean, director (London, England; died 1991)
1921 Simone Signoret, actress (France; died 1985)
1934 Gloria Steinem, author/feminist (Toledo, OH)
1938 Hoyt Axton, country singer/songwriter and actor (Duncan, OK; died 1999)
1942 Aretha Franklin, singer (Memphis, TN)
1922 Paul Michael Glaser, actor/director (Cambridge, MA)
1947 Elton John, singer/songwriter/musician (Middlesex, England)
1953 Mary Gross, actress/comedian (Chicago, IL)
1961 John Stockwell, actor/writer/director (Galveston, TX)
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, actress (Nelsonville, OH)
Jimmy Stewart
Bela Bartok
Arturo Toscanini
Gutzon Borglum
Howard Cosell
James Lovell Jr.
Gloria Steinem

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)

" Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland (1306)
" Maryland 1st settled (1634)
" 1st Catholic Mass performed in US (1634)
" George Washington planted pecan trees at Mt. Vernon (1775)
" UK Parliament abolished slave trade (1807)
" Scotland win 1st Soccer game against Wales (2-0; 1876)
" Treaty of Rome formed EEC (1957)
" Common Market formed (1957)
" Boston Patriots became the New England Patriots (1971)
" Saudi Arabian King Faisal assassinated by his nephew (1975)
" Michael Jackson 1st Moonwalked (1983)
" Last group of Heaven's Gate cult members committed suicide (1997)
" Pancakes 1st made
" 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded
" Jesus crucified (according to old beliefs)
" Polio Vaccine announced
" 1st Color TV image produced

" Annunciation - Christian. Commerates the day Mary, the mother of Jesus, was visited by an angel to inform her that she was blessed and chosen to be the mother of Christ.

" Evangelismou - Greek Independence Day. The Greeks combined their national Independence Day with the Annunciation and what was earlier believed to be the spring equinox. Greeks wear traditional clothes and celebrate with speeches and folk dancing.

1850 Edward Bellamy, author (Chicopee Falls, MA; died 1898)
1874 Robert Frost, poet (San Francisco, CA; died 1963)
1911 Tennessee Williams, playwright (Columbus, MS; died 1983)
1925 Pierre Boulez, composer/conductor (Montbrison, France)
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court justice (El Paso, TX)
1931 Leonard Nimoy, actor/director (Boston, MA)
1934 Alan Arkin, actor (New York, NY)
1939 James Caan, actor (New York, NY)
1942 Erica Jong, author/poet (New York, NY)
1943 Bob Woodward, journalist (Geneva, IL)
1944 Diana Ross, singer/actress (Detroit, MI)
1948 Steven Tyler, singer (Boston MA)
1950 Martin Short, actor/comedian (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
1957 Leeza Gibbons, TV personality (South Carolina)
1960 Marcus Allen, football player and sportscaster (San Diego, CA)
1962 John Stockton, basketball player (Spokane, WA)
Vicki Lawrence
Steven Tyler
Teddy Pendergrass
William Westmoreland
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole

" Birth of Prophet Zarathustra - (Persia)
" 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
" Independence Day (Bangladesh )
" 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)

" Birth of Prophet Zarathustra - founder of Zorostrianism religion (circa 630-550 BC). Zorostrianism consists of a monotheistic worship of Ahura Mazda (the "Lord Wisdom") and an ethical dualism opposing Truth (Asha) and Lie. This religion is thought to have been the philisophical foundation for what evolved into Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
" Cape Cod named (1602)
" 1st Sunday Newspaper published (1780)
" US Naturalization Act passed (1790)
" 1st Game Reserve formed (Sabi Game Reserve) established (South Africa; 1878)
" Nazis began sending Jews to Auschwitz (1942)
" Battle of Iwo Jima ended (1945)
" 1st Woman Stockbroker trades on London Stock Exchange (1973)
" The Seattle King Dome was blown up in a controlled implosion. The 7.9 acre roof collapsed in less than 20 seconds. (2000)
" Carol Burnett won her libel suit against the National Enquirer
" Lifeboat patented

1845 Wilhelm Roentgen, scientist who discovered X rays (Lennep, Prussia; died 1923)
1879 Miller Huggins, baseball player and manager (Cincinnati, OH; died 1929)
1922 Edward Steichen, photographer (Luxembourg, Germany; died 1973)
1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Chicago, IL; died 1983)
1924 Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer (Newark, NJ; died 1990)
1940 Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Timmonsville, SC)
1942 Michael York, actor (Fulmer, England)
1952 Maria Schneider, actress (Paris, France)
1963 Randall Cunningham, football player (Santa Barbara, CA)
1963 Quentin Tarantino, actor/director (Knoxville, TN)
1970 Mariah Carey, singer (Huntington, NY)
Dashiell Hammett
Mstislav Rostopovich
Henry Royce
Ludwig Van der Rohe
Snooky Lansen
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)

" Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to death (30 CE)
Ponce de Leon discovered Florida's east coast (1513)
" US Navy established (1794)
" "Great Revival" begins (1858)
" The first cherry blossom trees, a gift from Japan, were planted along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (1912)
" 1st Successful Blood Transfusion (1914)
" Alaska Earthquake (1964)
" Polish Solidarity strikes began (1981)
" North Sea oil rig disaster (1980)
" Mount St. Helens erupted with ash and steam. A crater formed at the summit and the north flank began to bulge. (1980)
" Corkscrew patented
" Rutles released
" 1st Fire Engine tested
" Kerosene Oil patented
" Plaster Cast invented
" Scott of the Antarctic perished
" 1st Long Distance Phone Call made

1921 Dirk Bogarde, actor (London, England; died 1999)
1924 Freddie Bartholomew, actor (Britain; died 1992)
1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, government official/political scientist (Poland)
1936 Mario Vargos Llosa, novelist (Arequipa, Peru)
1943 Conchata Ferrell, actress (Charleston, WV)
1944 Rick Barry, basketball player (Elizabeth, NJ)
Ken Howard, actor (El Centro, CA)
1948 Dianne Wiest, actress (Kansas City, MO)
1955 Reba McEntire, country singer (McAlester, OK)
1968 Lucy Lawless, actress (Mount Albert, New Zealand)
1981 Julia Stiles, actress (New York, NY)
Raphael
Marlin Perkins
Edmund S. Muskie

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
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.)

" According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ' birthday was 28 March until changed in 336 CE by Rome (243)
" Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated (193 CE)
" Battle of Berwick-on-Tweed (1296)
" Mexican War began (1846)
" Paris declared "Commune of the People" (1871)
" P.T. Barnum & James A. Bailey formed a circus partnership (1881)
" 1st Seaplane flew (1910)
" Virginia Woolf commited suicide (1941)
" The musical "Hair" premiered on Broadway (1968)
" Three Mile Island overheated (1979)
" Zhang, Tiananmen Square activist, granted political asylum by US Gov't (1990)
" Washing Machine patented

1790 John Tyler, 10th president of the United States (Charles City County, VA; died 1862)
1867 Cy Young, baseball pitcher (Gilmore, OH; died 1955)
1916 Eugene McCarthy, senator and presidential nominee (Watkins, MN)
1918 Pearl Bailey, singer/entertainer (Newport News, VA; died 1990)
Sam Walton, businessman and founder of Wal-Mart (Kingfisher, OK; died 1992)
1927 John McLaughlin, TV journalist (Providence, RI)
1943 Eric Idle, actor/comedian (Durham, England)
John Major, British prime minister (Brixton, England)
1945 Walt Frazier, basketball player (Atlanta, GA)
1955 Earl Campbell, football player (Tyler, TX)
1956 Kurt Thomas, champion gymnast (Miami, FL)
1963 M. C. Hammer, rap singer (Oakland, CA)
1964 Elle MacPherson, actress/model (Sydney, Australia)
1976 Jennifer Capriati, tennis player (New York, NY)
Vangelis
Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter
Man O' War
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)

" Battle of Towton, Yorkshire (1461)
" 1st Swedish immigrants arrived in US (1638)
" John Partridge "Death" Hoax perpetrated by Jonathan Swift (1708)
" Marquis de Sade freed by demand of the people (1790)
" Niagra Falls stopped flowing (1848)
" Royal Albert Hall opened (1871)
" Knights of Columbus founded (1882)
" Coca-Cola invented (1886)
" UK Women got the vote (1929)
" 23rd Amendment ratified, granting Washington, D.C. residents the right to vote; (1961)
" Last US Troops left Vietnam (1973)
" Idi Amin deposed (1979)
" Committee on Assassinations Report issued by US House of Representatives stating JFK assassination was result of conspiracy (1979)
" 1st Comic Relief benefit concert held (1986)
" 1st Commercial space launch (1989)
" 1st Automobile went 200 mph
" Fog Disposal Unit 1st tested

1135 Moses Maimonides, rabbi/philosopher (Spain; died 1204)
1746 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter (Aragon, Spain; died 1828)
1853 Vincent van Gogh, painter (Groot Zundert, Netherlands; died 1890)
1880 Sean O'Casey, playwright (Dublin, Ireland; died 1964)
1913 Frankie Laine, singer (Chicago, IL)
1919 McGeorge Bundy, statesman/educator (Boston, MA; died 1996)
1929 Richard Dysart, actor (Augusta, ME)
1930 John Astin, actor (Baltimore, MD)
1937 Warren Beatty, actor/director (Richmond, VA)
1945 Eric Clapton, musician/singer/songwriter (Surrey, England)
1957 Paul Reiser, actor (New York, NY)
1964 Tracy Chapman, singer/songwriter (Cleveland, OH)
1968 Celine Dion, singer (Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada)

" Birthday of Lao-Tzu (China)
" Mothering Sunday (UK)
" 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)

" Jesusof Nazareth died (29, 30, 33, or 36 CE)
" Sino-British Opium War began (1839)
" Anaesthesia 1st used (1842)
" Crimean War ended (1856)
" Eraser-topped Pencil patented (1858)
" US bought Alaska from Russia (1867)
" Texas readmitted to the Union (1870)
" 1st Ocean Liner circumnavigated the Earth (1923)
" Julius & Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of spying (1951)
" Transistor patented (1956)
" US President Ronald Reagen shot by John Hinckley Jr. (1981)
" Okefenokee Swamp National Refuge established
" Treaty of Fez signed
" Metropolitan Museum opened
" 1st Dance Marathon held
" Incubator patented

1596 René Descartes, philosopher/mathematician (La Haye, Touraine, France; died 1650)
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer (Rohrav, Austria-Hungary; died 1809)
1809 Nikolai Gogol, novelist/dramatist/short-story writer (Sorochinsk, Russia; died 1852)
1878 Jack Johnson, champion boxer and 1st black to win the heavyweight crown (Galveston, TX; died 1946)
1914 Octavio Paz, poet/essayist (Mexico; died 1998)
1922 Richard Kiley, actor (Chicago, IL; died 1999)
1927 Cesar Chavez, labor leader (Yuma, AZ; died 1993)
William Daniels, actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1928 Gordie Howe, hockey player (Floral, Saskatchewan, Canada)
1929 Liz Claiborne, fashion designer (Brussels, Belgium)
1932 John Jakes, author (Chicago, IL)
1934 Shirley Jones, actress/singer (Smithton, PA)
1935 Herb Albert, musician (Los Angeles, CA)
Richard Chamberlain, actor (Beverly Hills, CA)
1943 Christopher Walken, actor (New York, NY)
1948 Al Gore Jr., vice president of the United States and presidential candidate (Washington, DC)
Rhea Perlman, actress (Brooklyn, NY)
1971 Ewan McGregor, actor (Crieff, Scotland)
Edith "Aunt Jemima" Wilson
Leo Buscaglia
Patrick J. Leahy

" 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)

" Japan opened its doors to US trade (1854)
" Eiffel Tower opened (1889)
" Gottlieb Daimler named his newly invented automobile after his daughter, Mercedes (1901)
" New Zealand farmer flew a homemade monoplane (1903)
" US Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark (1917)
" Daylight Savings Time 1st went into effect (1918)
" Oklahoma premiered on Broadway (1940)
" Newfoundland became a Canadian Province (1949)
" Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki published (1950)
" Dalai Lama fled Tibet (1951)
" San Francisco's Army Street renamed Cesar Chavez (1995)
" Schumann's Spring Symphony premiered
" Mt. Rushmore authorized
" 1st Air Warfare casualty died
" 1st Map of the US published