March 16

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on March 16, include:

• Absolutely Incredible Kid Day - March 16, 2023 (Third Thursday in March)
• Black Press Day 
• Companies that Care Day - March 16, 2023 (Third Thursday in March)
• Curlew Day 
• Freedom of Information Day - March 16, 2023 (On or near March 16, which is the birthday of James Madison)
• Goddard Day 
• Lips Appreciation Day 
• National Artichoke Hearts Day 
• National Everything You do is Right Day 
• National Farm Rescuer Day - March 16, 2023 (Third Thursday in March)
• National Panda Day 
• No Selfies Day 
• Oranges and Lemons Day - March 16, 2023 (Third Thursday in March)
• St. Urho's Day 

2023 Weekly Holidays that include March 16, are:

• Brain Awareness Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Week of March)
• Campfire USA Birthday Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Full Week in March) (Founded March 17, 1910)
• Girl Scout Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Week of March - Week that always has March 12th in it)
  
• International Brain Awareness Week - March 13-19, 2023
• Lent - February 22 - April 8, 2023 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
  
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 9, 2023)
  
• MS Awareness Week - March 12-19, 2023 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Bubble Gum Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Green Week - February 5 - April 30, 2023 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Older Workers Employment Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Third Week of March)
• National Science & Engineering Week - March 10-19, 2023 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in March)
  
• National Sleep Awareness Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Week begins with Daylight Savings Time)
• Native American Awareness Week - March 13-17, 2023
• Orthodox Lent - February 22 - April 8, 2023 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
  
• Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 12-18, 2023
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week - March 12-17, 2023 (Starting the second Sunday in March for 6 days) 
• Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign - March 11-17
  
• Universal Women's Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Full Week of March)
• World Glaucoma Week - March 12-18, 2023 (Second Full Week of March)

2023 Monthly Holidays that include March 16, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our March Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of March.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo - February 28 - March 19, 2023 (Houston, TX)
  
• Iditarod Race - March 4-19, 2023 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail in Alaska running 1,000 miles from Anchorage to Nome
  
• Indiana Flower and Patio Show - March 11-19, 2023 (Indianapolis, IN)
• AKC National Agility Championship - March 16-19, 2023

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 16 is Pisces.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for March are:

• The Jonquil, better known as Daffodil or Narcissus
• The meaning of the Daffodil is friendship and domestic happiness

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for March is the aquamarine and the bloodstone.

Famous Birthdays

• 1751 – James Madison, American politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1912 – Pat Nixon, American First Lady (1969-1974) and wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States (d. 1993)
• 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian
• 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor (Alias, Titanic)
• 1954 – Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer and actress (Heart)
• 1961 – Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book artist and writer (Spider-Man, Spawn)
• 1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood)
• 1991  - Wofgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halen and his wife Valerie Bertinelli (he eventually becomes the bass player in Van Halen)

Famous Deaths

• 1991 - Seven members of Country singer Reba McEntire's band and her road manager were among 10 people who were killed when their private jet crashed in California just north of the Mexican border
• 2003 - Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
• 2016 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer, songwriter, conductor, and actor (b. 1944)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 2002 - Entertainer Liza Minnelli weds producer David Gest (Michael Jackson is the Best Man, and Elizabeth Taylor is the Maid of Honor)
  
• 2006 - US Actor Richard Dreyfuss weds Svetlana Erokhin

Quote of the Day

Reba McEntire dedicated her sixteenth album, For My Broken Heart, to her deceased road band, who were killed in a plane crash on this day in 1991.  Released in October 1991, it contained songs of sorrow and lost love. Reba won the AMA Favorite Country Album Award in 1993.

Recipe of the Day or a
Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day

The Holidays and Observances, Healthy Diet Habits Tip of the Day for March 16, is some information about Processed Foods information from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits. Processed foods are NOT a healthy diet habit! If you are eating for health, limit them! March is National Nutrition Month, which is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Find out more about Processed Foods.

This Day in History

• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines
• 1802 - Law signed to establish West Point, the US Military Academy in New York
• 1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
• 1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
• 1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
• 1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
• 1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
• 1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
• 1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating the Versailles Treaty
• 1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
• 1945 – The Battle of Iwo Jima ended (World War II), but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted
• 1955 - President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
• 1968 - Robert Kennedy announces presidential campaign
• 1988 – Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States
• 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery
• 2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish the UN Human Rights Council
• 2020 - The DJIA falls by 2,997.10 in the single largest point drop in history which is an even greater crash than Black Monday in 1929.

This Day in Music

• 1964 - Advance sales of the Beatles, Can't Buy Me Love, of over 2 million, set a U.S. record
• 1965 - The Rolling Stones', The Last Time hits #1 in the U.K.
• 1974 - Barbra Steisand's, The Way We Were album, hits #1
• 2010 - Abba, Genesis, and The Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

This Day in Sports

• 1876 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight the 1st female boxing match in New York
• 1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
• 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
• 1996 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!