2018 Daily Holidays that fall on March 20, include:
Bed in for Peace Day
Bock Beer Day
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
First Day of Spring - March 20, 2018
Great American MEAT-OUT
International Astrology Day - March 20, 2018 (Usually either March 20 or March 21 - falls on the same day as the Northward Equinox - Spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere, Fall equinox in the Southern Hemisphere)
International Day of Happiness
International Earth Day - March 20, 2018 (Same day as Spring Equinox, and different than Earth Day observed on April 22 each year)
International Francophonie Day
Kiss Your Fiance Day
March Equinox (First Day of Spring) - March 20, 2018 (movable date)
National Agriculture Day - March 20, 2018 (Falls During National Ag Week Each Year)
National Jump Out Day
National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Ravioli Day
Ostara (Spring Equinox) - March 20, 2018
Proposal Day
Snowman Burning Day
Spring Equinox - March 20, 2018
UN French Language Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Frog Day
World Sparrow Day
World Storytelling Day - March 20, 2018 (same day as Spring Equinox)
2018 Weekly Holidays that include March 20, are:
Act Happy Week - March 19-25, 2018 (Starts on Third Monday)
American Chocolate Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Third Full Week of March)
Consider Christianity Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Begins the Second Sunday before Easter)
Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - February 14, 2018 - March 29, 2018
Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 1, 2018)
National Animal Poison Prevention Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Third Full Week of March)
National Button Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Third Full Week in March)
National Fix a Leak Week - March 19-25, 2018
National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Third Week of March)
National Poison Prevention Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Third Full Week of March)
Orthodox Lent - February 19 - April 7, 2018
Passiontide - March 18-31, 2018 (The Last Two Weeks of Lent - Passion Week and Holy Week)
Passion Week - March 18-24, 2018 (Starts on the Fifth Sunday in Lent; the Week before Holy Week)
Wellderly Week - March 19-25, 2018 (Third Mon-Sun Week)
World Folktales & Fables Week - March 18-24, 2018
2018 Monthly Holidays that include March 20, 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:
A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
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
Hong Kong Arts Festival - February 23, 2018 - March 24, 2018 features Art, Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Music events.
Astrological Sign
The Astrological Sign for March 20 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
1922 – Carl Reiner, American director, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)
1928 – Fred Rogers, American TV host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (d. 2003)
1931 – Hal Linden, American actor (Barney Miller)
1950 - William Hurt, Actor (Body Heat, Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
1957 – Spike Lee, American film director
1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress (Black Widow)
1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress (The Piano, The Firm)
Famous Deaths
1726 – Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian (b. 1642)
1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1967 - A J F Moody, 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
1991 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
Famous Weddings and Divorces
1969 - John Lennon (The Beatles) marries Yoko Ono
1984 - Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats marries actress Britt Ekland
1999 -Actress Annette O' Toole weds Actor Michael McKean
Quote of the Day
International Day of Happiness is on March 20th!
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 20, (The First Day of Spring), is a bunch of Spring Weight Loss Tips, from Kerry, of Healthy Diet Habits.
This Day in History
1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established and is the first company to issue stock.
1616 – After 13 years of imprisonment, Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London
1760 – The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, and begins a 100 day rule
1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1852 – Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published
1854 – The Republican Party of the US is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin
1886 - 1st AC power plant in the US begins commercial operation, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity
1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan
1954 - 1st newspaper vending machine used in Columbia Pennsylvania
1969 - US President Nixon proclaims he will end the Vietnam war in 1970
1976 - Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1987 - FDA approves the sale of AZT for AIDS treatment
1995 - Poison Gas is released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1999 – Legoland California, opens in Carlsbad, California (First one outside of Europe)
2015 - A Supermoon, Solar eclipse and equinox happen on the same day
This Day in Music
1961 - Elvis Presley's Surrender hits #1
1970 - Elton John's Border Song is released
1972 - America's A Horse With No Name hits #1
1982 - Joan Jett & Blackhearts' I Love Rock 'n' Roll hits #1 for 7 weeks
1991 - Michael Jackson signs a $65 million deal with Sony, the largest contract renewal to date
Above, is the Unplugged Version, of Tears in Heaven, by Eric Clapton, a song to honor his son Connor who fell from a 53 floor window on this day in 1991.
This Day in Sports
1897 - 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1914 - 1st International figure-skating tournament held in the US, in New Haven, Connecticut
1972 - 19 mountain climbers are killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1988 - Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1993 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
1997 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne, is won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
Word of the Day from Wiktionary
forethoughtful (adjective)
1. Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.
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