March 16

March 16 Information from the Holidays and Observances Website

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on March 16, include:

  • Black Press Day 
  • Curlew Day 
  • Freedom of Information Day - March 16, 2024 (On or near March 16, which is the birthday of James Madison)
  • Goddard Day 
  • International Sports Car Racing Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday in March)
  • Lips Appreciation Day 
  • Maple Syrup Saturday - March 16, 2024 - (Third Saturday of March)
  • National Artichoke Hearts Day 
  • National Corndog Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday of March)
  • National Everything You do is Right Day 
  • National Panda Day 
  • National Quilting Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday of March)
  • No Selfies Day 
  • Play the Recorder Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday of March)
  • Save the Panther Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday in March)
  • St. Urho's Day
  • Worldwide Quilting Day - March 16, 2024 (Third Saturday in March)

2024 Weekly Holidays that include March 16, are:

  • Brain Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Week of March)
  • Campfire USA Birthday Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week in March) (Founded March 17, 1910)
  • International Brain Awareness Week - March 11-17, 2024
  • Lent - February 14 - March 26, 2024 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
  • Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is March 31, 2024)
  • MS Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
  • National Bubble Gum Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
  • National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2024 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  • National Money Collectors Week - March 14-16, 2024
  • National Older Workers Employment Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
  • National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Third Week of March)
  • National Science & Engineering Week - March 8-17, 2024 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in March)
  • National Sleep Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Week begins with Daylight Savings Time)
  • Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024
  • Ramadan - Evening of March 10, 2024 - Evening of April 8, 2024
  • Sunshine Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Week of March 16th)
  • Termite Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024
  • Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign - March 11-17
  • Universal Women's Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
  • World Glaucoma Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)

2024 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 27 - March 17, 2024 (Houston, TX)
  • Iditarod Race - March 2-17, 2024 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
  • Indiana Flower and Patio Show - March 9-17, 2024 (Indianapolis, IN)
  • Expo West (Anaheim, CA) - March 12-16, 2024
  • AKC National Agility Championship - March 14-17, 2024


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.



Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe 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.

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.
  • 2022 - Off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills 4 people and injures 225 people


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

damnify (verb)

1. (law) To cause injuries or loss to.

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