World Puppetry Day

March 21 is…

….World Puppetry Day and Benito Juarez Day

….The anniversary of the first rock & roll concert

….The day Alcatraz Prison closed for good

….The day the first balloon flew around the world

The birthday of Julio Gallo, Rosie O’Donnell, Matthew Broderick, Timothy Dalton, Eddie Money, and Tom Flores

The day Robert Preston, Dean Paul (Dino) Martin, Galina Ulanova, Leo Fender, and Pocahontas died

…and a whole lot more!

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World Sparrow Day

March 20 is World Sparrow Day and French Language Day

…The day Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published

…The day Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London

…The day Douglas MacArthur said “I shall return!”

…The day the invasion of Iraq began

…The birthday of Spike Lee, Mister Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Ozzie Nelson, Pat Riley, and Ovid

…The day Chet Huntley, King Henry IV of England, and boxer Tony Zale died

…and a whole lot more!

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Tuskegee Airmen Formed

March 19 is the day the first unit of Tuskegee Airmen were activated

…The feast of St. Joseph’s Day

…The day the swallows come back to Capistrano

…The day the first motion picture footage was shot

…The day time zones and Daylight Savings Time began in America

…The birthday of Wyatt Earp, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Philip Roth, Irving Wallace, Bruce Willis, Ursula Andress, “Moms” Mabley, Albert Speer, Earl Warren, and WIlliam Jennings Bryan

…The day Anne Klein, Willem de Kooning, John DeLorean, Arthur C. Clarke, and Edgar Rice Burroughs died

…and a whole lot more!

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Hawaii Statehood

March 18 is the day the Hawaii Statehood Bill was signed

…The day Caligula became emperor

…The day Templar Knight Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake

…The day the first human walked in space

…The day of the largest art theft in history

…The birthday of Vanessa Williams, John Updike, Rudolf Diesel, Queen Latifah, Wilson Pickett, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, President Grover Cleveland, and skater Bonny Blair

…The day Fess Parker, Johnny Appleseed, Papa John Phillips, and Ivan the Terrible died

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St. Patrick’s Day

March 17 is Saint Patrick’s Day and Liberalia in ancient Rome

…The day of Julius Caesar’s last victory

…The day the Bridge at Remagen collapsed

…The day the Dalai Lama fled Tibet

…The day Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel

…The birthday of actors Rob Lowe, Gary Sinese, Kurt Russell, and Patrick Duffy; dancer Rudolf Nureyev; musicians John Sebastian and Nat King Cole; and soccer star Mia Hamm

…The day Helen Hayes, Fred Allen, Oleg Cassini, Ferlin Husky, and Marcus Aurelius died

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First Rocket Launch

March 16 is the day Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket

…The Day of the Book Smugglers in modern Lithuania and Bacchanalia in ancient Rome

…The day Caligula became emperor

…The day the My Lai massacre took place

…The day Terry Anderson was kidnapped in Beirut

…The birthday of comics Jerry Lewis and Henny Youngman, senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, first lady Pat Nixon, and fourth President James Madison

…The day Judge Roy Bean, Arthur Godfrey, T. Bone Walker, Thomas E. Dewey, and Emperor Tiberius died.

…and a whole lot more!

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Ides of March/Death of Caesar

March 15: The Story of a Special Day

March 15 is the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated

…The day Columbus returned to Spain from the New World

…The day Maine became a state

…The day Rolls-Royce was founded

…The day the last tsar of Russia abdicated

…The birthday of President Andrew Jackson, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, musicians Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sly Stone, Ry Cooder, and Harry James

…The day Ann Sothern, Aristotle Onassis, Dr. Spock, Bowie Kuhn, and H. P. Lovecraft died.

…and a whole lot more!

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Pi Day/Einstein’s Birthday

March 14 is Pi Day, for the mathematical constant π (3.14)

…The day Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

…The day The Mikado was first performed

…The day the first Bollywood film premiered

…The day Jack Ruby was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald

…The birthday of Albert Einstein, Billy Crystal, the real Casey Jones, and astronauts Gene Cernan and Frank Borman

…The day Peter Graves, Busby Berkeley, Karl Marx, Kodak founder George Eastman, and Sir Thomas Malory died.

…and a whole lot more!

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Discovery of the Planet Uranus

March 13 is the anniversary of the discovery of Uranus

…The anniversary of Muhammad’s victory at the Battle of Badr

…The day the Kraków Ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis

…The day Kitty Genovese was murdered

…The day Apollo 9 returned to Earth

…The birthday of actors Dana Delaney and William H. Macy, MAD cartoonist Al Jaffee, airport namesake Butch O’Hare, songwriter Neil Sedaka, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and oxygen discoverer Joseph Priestley

…The day Maureen Stapleton, Henry Shrapnel, Clarence Darrow, and Susan B. Anthony died.

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Girl Scouts USA Founded

March 12 is Girl Scout Birthday, the date the Girl Scouts of the USA began

…The day Coca-Cola® was first sold in bottles

…The day Gandhi began his Salt March

…The anniversary of FDR’s first Fireside Chat

…The day the Fukushima reactor exploded

…The birthday of actress Liza Minnelli, Our Gang’s Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas, singer James Taylor, ballet legend Vaslav Nijinsky, and presidential candidate Mitt Romney

…The day George Westinghouse, Yehudi Menuhin, Charlie Parker, Sun Yat-sen, and Woody Hayes died.

…and a whole lot more!

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Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year…because every day is a special day for someone you know!