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2012
Bizarre, Crazy, Silly,
Unknown Holidays & Observances
Stone=
Aquamarine Flower=
Daffodil
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History of Mardi Gras (Carnival) + Cartoon St. Patrick's Day and St.
Urho's Day Fun If you want "On This Day" in History
information, go to The
History Channel! Because dates are tentative and also change a lot, I'm
not going to list the Indian Tribal Gatherings per month. |
March Monthly Observances
Adopt
A Rescued Guinea Pig Month Link
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month Link
or Link
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month Link
Berries and Cherries Month Link
Child Life Month Link
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
(Different sponsor
from National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link
*Deaf History Month (3/13
to 4/15)
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit & Leeks and Green Onions Month Link
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month Link
Honor Society Awareness Month Link
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
Link
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month:
Link
Irish-American Heritage Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
Music In Our Schools Month Link
National Athletic Training Month Link
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month Link
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month Link
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
(Different sponsor from
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month Link
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month Link
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play The Recorder Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month Link
Spiritual Wellness Month
Supply Management Month
Link
Women's History Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Youth Art Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son: 3/3 - 5/27 Link
March Weekly Observances
*National
Cheerleading Week: 1-7
*National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
*National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
*Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7 Link
Festival of Owls Week: 2-4
Iditarod Race: 3-18
Celebrate Your Name Week: 4-10 Link
National Consumer Protection Week:
4-10
National Procrastination Week: 4-10
National Schools Social Work Week:
4-10 Link
(Moved from February)
National Words Matter Week: 4-10
Professional Pet Sitters Week: 4-10
Save Your Vision Week: 4-10
Read an E-Book Week: 4-10 Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week:
4-10
Teen Tech Week: 4-10
Women in Construction Week: 4-10 Link
American Council on Education: 5-8
Newspaper in Education Week: 5-9
National Sleep Awareness Week: 5-11
National School Breakfast Week: 5-9
Share A Story - Shape A Future Week: 5-9
*Universal Women's Week: 8-14 Link
World Rattlesnake Round-up: 8-11
Girl Scout Week: 11-17 Link
(Always the week with March 12)
*Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17
National Agriculture Week: 11-17
(?)
International Brain Awareness Week:
12-18
Wildlife Week: 12-18
Campfire USA Birthday Week: 13-19
American Crossword Puzzle Weekend: 16-18
Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 16-18 (also
November 2-4)
National Animal Poison Prevention Week: 18-24
National Inhalant and Poisons
Awareness Week: 18-24 (?) Link
Act Happy Week: 19-25
American Chocolate Week: 19-24 (Always
3rd Week) Link
Wellderly Week: 19-25
*Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism &
Discrimination: 21-27
YoYo and Skill Toys Week: 21-25
NanoDays: 24-4/1 Link
Consider Christianity Week:
25-31 Link
Passiontide (3/25-4/7)
National Conference on Family Literacy:
25-27
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week:
25-31
Root Canal Awareness Week: 25-31
National Protocol Officer's Week: 25-31
National Cleaning Week: 26-31
(Last Week)
NOTE: An * in front of the day means that the observance is on the same date every year regardless of the day it falls on.
*Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day: 1 Link
National Horse Protection Day: 1
*Peace Corps Day: 1
Link
*Pig Day: 1
*Plan a Solo Vacation Day: 1
*Refired, Not Retired Day: 1
Witch Hysteria Day: 1
World Book Day: 1
World Compliment Day: 1
Dress in Blue Day: 2
*Dr. Seuss Day: 2
Employee Appreciation Day: 2 (Always
First Friday) Link
*NEA's Read Across America Day: 2
Shabbat Across American/Canada: 2
International Sister Cities Day: 3 (?) Link
*I Want You To Be Happy Day: 3
*National Anthem Day: 3
*What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day: 3
*Benjamin Harrison Day: 4
*Courageous Follower Day: 4
Daughters' and Sons' Day: 4 (First
Sunday in March)
Iditarod: 4 (First
Sunday in March)
*International Scrapbooking Industry Day: 4
*March Forth-Do Something Day: 4
*National Grammar Day: 4
*Old Inauguration Day: 4
*Toy Soldier Day: 4
Link
Casimir Pulaski Day: 5 (First
Monday in March) Link
(Note: See also October 11)
Fun Facts About Names Day: 5 Link
*Saint Piran's Day: 5
Namesake Day: 6 Link
Peace Corp Birthday: 6
Unique Names Day: 6 Link
U.S. Snowshoe Day: 6
Learn What Your Name Means Day: 7 Link
*National Be Heard Day: 7
*Cereal Day: 7 Link
Ta'Ant Esther: 7
*Day for Women's Rights &
International Peace: 8
*Girls Write Now Day: 8
*International Women's Day: 8 Link
*International Working Women's Day:
8
Nametag Day: 8 Link
National Proof Reading Day: 8
Organize Your Home Office Day: 8
Purim: 8 (at
sundown)
World Kidney Day: 8
*Barbie Day: 9
*Get Over It Day: 9 Link
*Joe Franklin Day: 9
Middle Name Pride Day: 9 Link
*Panic
Day: 9
Genealogy Day: 10 Link
*International Day of Awesomeness: 10 Link
International Fanny Pack Day: 10 Link
(2nd Saturday)
*Land Line Telephone Day: 10
*Mario
Day: 10
*Salvation
Army Day: 10
*US Paper Money Day: 10
*Women & Girls HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day: 10 Link
Check Your Batteries Day: 11
Daylight Saving Time Begins: 11 (to
November 4)
*Dream
2012 Day: 11
*Johnny Appleseed Day: 11
*World Plumbing Day: 11 Link
*Girl Scout Sunday: 11 Link
(The Sunday in Girl Scout Week, or closest to March 12)
*Girl Scout Birthday Day: 12 Link
Napping Day (Monday
after daylight savings times): 12
Link
*Donald Duck Day: 13 Link
(See also June 9)
*Earmuffs Day: 13
*Good
Samaritan Involvement Day: 13
National Agriculture Day: 13
*K-9 Veterans Day: 13 Link
*Ken Day: 13 (the
doll)
*L. Ron Hubbard Day: 13
*National
Open An Umbrella Indoors Day: 13
*International
Ask A Question Day: 14
*MOTH-ER
Day: 14
*Potato Chip Day: 14 Link
*Pi
Day (as in the
math pie = 3.14159265 etc.): 14 Link
Registered Dietitian Day: 14 Link
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day: 15
*Brutus Day: 15
*Buzzards Day: 15 Link
Companies That Care Day: 15
*Ides of March: 15
*True Confessions Day: 15
*World Consumer Rights Day: 15 Link
*Curlew Day: 16
*Freedom of Information Day: 16
*Goddard Day: 16 Link
*Lips Appreciation Day: 16
*St. Urho's Day: 16 Link
Well-Elderly or Wellderly
Day: 16
*Campfire
Girls Day: 17
International Astrology Day: 17 Link
Corn Dog Day: 17 Link
(The 1st Saturday of the Big Men's Basketball Tournament)
International Sports Car Racing Day:17 Link
(3rd Saturday)
National Quilting Day: 17 (Always
3rd Saturday) Link
*St.
Patrick's Day: 17
*Awkward Moments Day: 18
*Forgive
Mom and Dad Day: 18
*National
Biodiesel Day: 18
National Chocolate Caramel Day: 19 Link
*Operation Iraqi Freedom Day: 19
*Swallows
Return to San Juan Capistrano Day: 19
*Alien Abduction Day: 20 (Started
in 2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
*Atheist Pride Day: 20 Link
*Bed-in For Peace Day: 20 (Beatles
- John and Yoko)
First Day of Spring: 20
*Great
American Meat Out Day: 20
*Kiss Your Fiancée Day: 20
*National Jump Out! Day: 20 Link
*National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: 20 Link
Ostara: 20 (Spring
Equinox)
*Proposal
Day: 20
*National
Agriculture Day: 20
*Now Ruz: 20 (Persian
New Year) Same day as the Vernal Equinox
*Snowman
Burning Day: 20
*Won't You Be My Neighbor Day: 20
Corn Dog Day: 20 Link
Kick Butts Day: 21 Link
*International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: 21
*Memory
Day: 21
*National
Common Courtesy Day: 21
Naw-Ruz: 21
*Spring Fairy Fun Day: 21 Link
*World Down Syndrome Day: 21 Link
*As
Young As You Feel Day: 22
*International Day of The Seal: 22
*International Goof-off Day: 22
*World Day for Water (aka World Water Day) : 22 Link
National Day of Unplugging: 23-24
*National Puppy Day: 23 Link
*Near Miss Day: 23
*OK Day: 23 Link
*World Meteorological Day: 23
*National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day: 24 Link
*World Tuberculosis Day: 24
*International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The
Transatlantic: 25
*National Day of Celebration of
Greek & American Democracy: 25
*Old New Year's Day: 25
*Pecan Day: 25
Slave Trade: 25
*Tolkien Reading Day: 25
*Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day): 25 Link
*Legal Assistants Day: 26
*Make Up Your Own Holiday Day: 26
American Diabetes Association Alert
Day: 27
*Celebrate Exchange Day: 27 Link
*Education and Sharing Day: 27
*Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day: 27
*Viagra Day: 27
*Barnum & Bailey Day: 28
*Weed Appreciation Day: 28 Link
*Knights of Columbus Founders Day: 29
*National Mom & Pop Business Owner's Day: 29
*Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day: 29
*Texas Loves The Children Day: 29
Mule Day: 29-4/1
(Celebration. For Historical see October 26) Link
*Doctors Day: 30 Link
*Grass
Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day: 30
*Pencil Day: 30
*Bunsen Burner Day: 31
Earth Hour: 31 Link
(Not to be confused with Earth Day. This pertains to turning off lights.)
*National "She's Funny That Way" Day: 31
National Love Our Children Day: 31
*Terri's Day: 31 Link
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Full Moon on the 8th is called
"Worm Moon" by Native Americans of New England and the Great Lakes
because this time of the year there are signs of earthworms as the ground thaws
in preparation for spring.
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