Note- though this is a long list, it's not exhaustive.  Believe it or not there are more special observances for the month of March as well as it's weeks and days.  Check the main Get It Together By Month page for links to calendars and events shared by other websites. Some of the sites list conflicting dates for the same event. I will be going through the list below and adding links and will correct conflicts as I discover them.                             Click here for great books for March!            GET IT TOGETHER  -  MARCH  Click Here to Search This Site             Get it Together at www.hwtk.net Sunday     Monday      Tuesday      Wednesday Thursday   Friday                            Saturday       March is:  Women’s History Month   National Baby Month   Irish-American Heritage Month   National Philatelic Society Month American Red Cross Month   American Diabetes Alert Month     Mental Retardation Awareness Month   Deaf History Month National Kidney Month   National Nutrition Month   International Science Month   Poison Prevention Awareness Month   Non-Fiction Reading and Writing Month    Music in Our Schools Month   Youth Art Month   National Craft Month    1 Yellowstone National Park Est. 1872   Ohio  and Nebraska  Admission Day   National Pig Day   Venera 3 reaches Venus (1966)   K-Mart  founded (1962)   Peace Corps  founded (1861) 2 Dr. Seuss’ Birthday , 1904   Read Across America Day   World Day of Prayer -Annie's National Day of Prayer Homepage   TIME magazine debuted (1923) Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig  debuted (1937) 3 Alexander Graham Bell 's Birthday, 1847   Florida Admission Day   National Anthem Day  (1931) Dept. of Education- National Anthem facts   Full Worm Moon /Total Lunar Eclipse Mr. Eclipse.com   33 Flavors Day at Baskin Robbins   4 First Meeting of Congress , 1789   Vermont Admission Day   Save Your Vision Week   Voyager 1  discovers Jupiter’s Rings (1979)   Iditarod  starts -Lesson Plans   Hug a GI Day   Purim 5 Boston Massacre, 1770   Stop the Clocks Day   Gerardus Mercator’s Birthday, 1512   6 Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Birthday, 1475   Alamo  falls to Mexico (1836)   Valentina Tereshkova's Birthday, 1937   Oreo Cookies  released (1912)   Toronto  founded (1834) 7 Luther Burbank’s Birthday, 1849   Unique Names Day   Monopoly Invented (1933)   Piet Mondrian’s Birthday, 1872   Peace Corps Day   Distinguished Service Medal  authorized (1918) 8 International Women's Day   Farmer’s Day   Plant a Flower Day -Starfall Garden Shop   Aunt's Day -Enchanted Learning-Family Trees   9 Amerigo Vespucci s Birthday, 1454     10 Harriet Tubman Day (and birthday) See also Black History   Invention of telephone  took place in 1878.   Rings around Uranus  discovered (1977)   11 Ezra Jack Keat’s Birthday, 1916 Bright Idea - Storybook Art   Johnny Appleseed Day   Daylight Savings Begins   Urbain le Verrier’s Birthday, 1811   Girl Scout Sunday 12 Anne Frank  died on this date, 1945   Ballet Tutu  first used (1832)   Ghandi’s civil march (1930)   First Library opened   13 Uranus discovered, 1781   Good Samaritan Day 14 Albert Einstein ’s Birthday, 1879   Pi Day   Learn About Butterflies Day   Casey Jones' Birthday   Celebrate Scientists Day 15 Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B.C. (Ides of March)   First Blood Bank  opens, 1937   Maine Admission Day   Absolutely Incredible Kid Day   National Pasta Day   Veterans Affairs was given cabinet status (1989) 16 James Madison’s Birthday, 1751   Freedom of Information Day   Barnum & Bailey Circus  debuts (1881)   Launch of first liquid fuel rocket (1926)   National Quilt Day Quilting With Kids   Vitamin C discovered (1932)   American Legion and Auxiliary  established (1919)   17 St. Patrick’s Day   Submarine Day   Boys and Girls Camfire  founded (1975)   Rubber Band  invented (1845) 18 Grover Cleveland’s Birthday, 1837   First Space Walk (1965) Space & Space Travel   Sparky the Firedog’s Birthday       19 Swallows return to Capistrano   Partial solar eclipse   First recorded lunar eclipse, 721 B.C.   Operation Iraqi Freedom began (2003) 20     National Agriculture Day   Mr. Rogers' Birthday (1928)   21 First Day of Spring!!!   Benito Juarez’s Birthday, 1806   International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination   Johann Sebastian Bach’s Birthday, 1685 Study the Composers 22 World Water Day   Randolph Caldecott’s Birthday   Tuskegee Airmen  Activated (1941) 23 Patrick Henry’s famous declaration “Give me liberty...” this date, 1775   World Meteorological Day Weather & Meteorology   Ponce De Leon  sights and names Florida   Near Miss Day  (1989) 24 Exxon Valdez ran aground this date, 1989   Harry Houdini’s Birthday, 1874   World Tuberculosis Day 25 Gutzon Borglum’s Birthday, 1871   Claywater Meteorite explodes in Wisconsin (1865)   Saturn’s moon Titan discovered (1655)   National Family Day   26 Robert Frost’s Birthday, 1874   Make Up Your Own Holiday Day 27  Kite Flying Day   Cale Yarborough’s Birthday, 1939   Photography Day   Steam Fire Engine  debuts (1841)   28 Washing Machine  patented   Asteroid Pallas discovered (1802) 29 Armed forces left Vietnam, 1973   Coca-cola invented (1886)   Mariner takes first close-up photos of Mercury (1974) 30 Vincent van Gogh’s Birthday, 1853   Russia sold Alaska to U.S. (1867)   Pencil patented  (1858)   Doctor’s Day 31 Rene´ Descartes’ Birthday, 1596   Eiffel Tower  completed (1889)   Bunsen Burner Day     More March links:  Get It Together By Month - Holiday themed calendars and links from various websites for use year round.    Education World March Themes - Find great links and ideas for Women's History, Spring, Nutrition, Art and Music and the Iditarod at this website.  (Note- this is an advertisement heavy site.)  Scholastic Weekly Activities for Teachers - Find online activities, lesson plans and additional resources available free at the Scholastic website.  Click here:   to give me "credit" for your Scholastic book purchases. Thanks!