Holidays 3.21
Holidays
AfghanistanDay (US)
Agony of Defeat Anniversary Day
Aizu Higan Shishi (a.k.a. Sanbiki Shishimai; End of Winter Lion Dance; Japan)
American Immigration Lawyers Association Day of Action
Anal Cancer Awareness Day
Ancient Babylonian New Year
Arbor Day (Belgium, Lesotho, Portugal)
Back Badge Day (Gloucestershire, UK)
Bampflugnax Day (Guyana)
Big Bang Day
Bird Day (Iowa)
Birkebeinerrennet (Norway)
Border Guard Day (Georgia)
Children's Poetry Day
Cluster Headache Awareness Day
Common Courtesy Day
Credit Card Reduction Day
Day of Marine Reconnaissance
Discovery Day (Guam)
Early Music Day
Education Freedom Day
Egyptian Harvest Festival
End of the World Day [Predicted by Leonardo Da Vinci for 4006]
Global Surveyors’ Day
Global Understanding Day
Harmony Day (Australia)
Hogithum (Elder Scrolls)
Human Rights Day (South Africa)
International Colour Day
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN)
International Day of Forests (UN)
Memory Day
Mother's Day (Arab nations)
Music Day
National Agriculture Day
National Beverly Day
National Countdown Day
National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange
National Flower Day
National Fragrance Day
National Indigenous Water Operator Day (Canada)
National Memory Day
National Peter Day
National Propane Day (Canada)
National Renewable Energy Day
National Rosie the Riveter Day
National Single Parent Day
National Spring Festival (Turkmenistan)
National Teenager Day
National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho)
No Strings Attached Day
Nyepi Day (Day of Silence; Bali, Indonesia)
Oltenia Day (Romania)
Ougadi (Mauritius)
Panic! At The Disco Day
Paper Dress Day
Primrose Day (French Republic)
The Purge Day (in “The Purge”)
Race Relations Day (New Zealand)
Save Soil Day
Sharpeville Massacre Anniversary Day (South Africa)
Single Parents’ Day
Slytherin Pride Day
Spring Fairy Fun Day
Tea and Telphi Day (Ireland)
Telugu New Year (India)
Truant's Day (Faroe Islands, Poland)
Twitter Day
We Day
World Day of Casi Angeles (Argentina)
World Down Syndrome Day
World Forestry Day
World Freedom of Thought Day
World Home Economics Day
World Office Storage Day
World Planting Day
World Poetry Day
World Puppetry Day
World Sustainable Procurement Day
World Tattoo Day
World Wood Day
Yngismannadagur (Young Men’s Day; Iceland)
Youth Day (Tunisia)
Food & Drink Celebrations
California Strawberry Day
French Bread Day
Gallo Wine Day
International Tiramisu Day
National Crunchy Taco Day
National Healthy Fats Day
World Vermouth Day
3rd Thursday in March
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day [3rd Thursday]
Companies That Care Day [3rd Thursday]
MASD Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]
National Close the Gap Day (Australia) [3rd Thursday]
National Farm Rescuer Day [3rd Thursday]
National Spray Tanning Day [3rd Thursday]
Oranges and Lemons Day [3rd Thursday; also 3.31]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 21 (3rd Week)
Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination [begins 3.21; thru 3.27]
Independence & Related Days
Namibia (from South Africa, 1990)
Pacific States of America (Declared; 2023) [unrecognized]
New Year’s Days
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 2, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
International Day of Nowruz (UN)
Narooz (Persian New Year; Iran, Kyrgyzstan)
Nauroz (India)
Nauruz (Afghan New Year; Afghanistan)
Nauryz Meyramy (Kazakhstan)
Navro’z Bayrami (Uzbekistan)
Navruz (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
Naw-Rúz (Baha’i)
Nevruz (Albania)
Newroz (Iran, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia)
Norooz (Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Zoroastrian)
Novruz (Azerbaijan, Tajikistan)
Nowruz (Spring Day; Iraq)
Festivals Beginning March 21, 2024
Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) [thru 3.24]
Collier Fair (Naples, Florida) [thru 3.31]
Future Food-Tech (San Francisco, California) [thru 3.22]
Hawaii Hotel & Restaurant Show (Honolulu, Hawaii) [thru 3.22]
Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig, Germany) [thru 3.24]
Louisiana Crawfish Festival (Chalmette, Louisiana) [thru 3.24]
Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival (Palm Desert, California) [thru 3.24]
PAX East (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 3.24]
South Carolina BBQ & Shag Festival (Hemingway, South Carolina) [thru 3.23]
Warsaw Beer Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 3.23]
The WhiskyX (Chicago, Illinois)
Feast Days
Akitu (Mesopotamian spring festival, "cutting of the barley," celebrating Marduk's victory over Tiamat)
Alban Eilir (a.k.a. The Light of the Earth; Celtic Book of Days)
Aries zodiac sign begins (Astrology)
Bartolomaus Spranger (Artology)
Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello (Christian; Saint)
Benedict, Passing of (Order of Saint Benedict, pre-1970 Calendar; Christian)
Birillus (Christian; Saint)
Dionysia (Ancient Greek Festival to Dionysus, God of Intoxication)
Enda of Aran (a.k.a. Enna of Ireland; Christian; Saint)
Fanchea (Christian; Saint & Virgin)
Festival of Salii (Jumping Priests; Ancient Rome)
French Bread Day (Pastafarian)
Hans Hofmann (Artology)
Jack Slade Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
John the Evangelist (Positivist; Saint)
Music Day (Pagan)
Nicholas of Flüe (Christian; Saint)
Philosophical Day (Pastafarian)
Purification of the Trumpets (Ancient Rome)
Quinquatria, Day 3: Music Day (Pagan)
Raya & Ala (Muppetism)
Seraphim of Vyritsa (Orthodox)
Serapion of Thmuis (a.k.a. The Sindonite; Christian; Saint))
Shunki-Korei-Sai (Ancestral Spirits Rite; Shinto)
Tea and Tephi Day (Holy Day; Ireland)
Thomas Cranmer (Anglicanism)
Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]
Ta’anit Esther (The Fast of Esther; Judaism) [11 Adar]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 14 of 60)
Premieres
The African Queen (Film; 1952)
Alice in the Alps (Disney Cartoon; 1927)
All of Me, recorded by Billie Holiday (Song; 1941)
Beyond Beyond (Animated Film; 2014)
Day, by Elie Wiesel (Novel; 1961)
Deadwood (TV Series; 2004)
Divergent (Film; 2014)
Escape to Witch Mountain (Film; 1975)
The Final Cut, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1983)
First Step, by Faces (Album; 1970)
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (Hanna-Barbera Animated Film; 1986)
God Bless America, recorded by Kate Smith (Song; 1939)
A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes (Novel; 1929)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Documentary Film; 2014)
Johann Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1953)
L’enfant et les Sortilèges, by Maurice Ravel (Opera; 1925)
Les Miserobots (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)
Liar Liar (Film; 1997)
Like a Prayer, by Madonna (Album; 1989)
Little Darlings (Film; 1980)
Living After Midnight, by Judas Priest (Song; 1980)
Mad Max (Film; 1980)
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, by Peter Paret (History Essays; 1943)
Mission to Mars (Disneyland Ride; 1975)
Muppets Most Wanted (Film; 2014)
No Strings Attached, by ’N Sync (Album; 2000)
Old Dog Tray, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (Film; 1968)
The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt (Political Theory; 1951)
Party Central (Pixar Cartoon; 2014)
Piglet’s Big Movie (Animated Film; 2003)
Rebecca (Film; 1940)
Rescue Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Rock Around the Clock (Film; 1956)
Selena (Film; 1997)
Sloop John B, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)
The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner (Novel; 1976)
Stuck On You, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)
Sweet Bird of Youth (Film; 1962)
Sydney (TV Series; 1990)
Symphonia Domestic, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem for Orchestra; 1904)
Symphony No. 9, The Great Symphony in C Major, by Franz Schubert (Symphony; 1839)
Topper Returns (Film; 1941)
Trick or Tweet (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)
Two Chips and a Miss (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
View from the Top (Film; 2003)
When Knights Were Bold (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)
Today’s Name Days
Alexandra, Axel, Christian, Emilia (Austria)
Kristijan, Serapion, Vesna, Vlasta (Croatia)
Radek (Czech Republic)
Benedictus (Denmark)
Küllo, Külvo, Pendo, Pent (Estonia)
Pentti (Finland)
Axelle, Clémence (France)
Axel, Christian, Emilia (Germany)
Iakovos (Greece)
Benedek (Hungary)
Benedetto, Filemone (Italy)
Benedikts, Boleslavs, Dzelme, Glezna, Una (Latvia)
Benas, Benediktas, Lingailė, Nortautas, Reda, Saulius (Lithuania)
Bendik, Bengt, Bent (Norway)
Benedykt, Filemon, Lubomira, Mikołaj (Poland)
Iacob (Romania
Blahoslav (Slovakia)
Nicolás (Spain)
Bengt (Sweden)
Arvin, Arwin, Bendix, Benedict, Benedicta, Bennett (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 81 of 2024; 285 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 5 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 12 (Jia-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 11 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 11 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 21 Green; Sevenday [21 of 30]
Julian: 8 March 2024
Moon: 89%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 25 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Justin]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 3 of 92)
Week: 3rd Week of March
Zodiac: Aries (Day 1 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Aries (The Ram) begins [Zodiac Sign 1 of 12; thru 4.19]
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