March 14

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on March 14, include:

• Bake a Pie in Solidarity Day 
• Celebrate Scientists Day 
• Crowdfunding Day
• Dribble to Work Day 
• Genius Day 
• International Ask A Question Day 
• International Day of Action for Rivers 
• International Day of Mathematics 
• Learn About Butterflies Day 
• Legal Assistance Day
• Moth-er Day 
• National Children's Craft Day 
• National Pi Day 
• National Potato Chip Day 
• Popcorn Lover's Day - March 14, 2024 (Second Thursday in March)
• Registered Dietitian Day - March 13, 2024 (Second Wednesday in March)
• Save a Spider Day 
• Science Education Day 
• White Day 
• World Kidney Day - March 14, 2024 (Second Thursday in March)
• Write Your Story Day 

2024 Weekly Holidays that include March 14, 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)
• Girl Scout Week - March 10-14, 2024 (Second Week of March - Week that always has March 12th in it)
  
• 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 Catholic Sisters Week - March 8-14
• 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
  
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week - March 10-15, 2024 (Starting the second Sunday in March for 6 days) 
• 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 14, 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 14 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

• 1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, American politician and 28th Vice President of the US (d. 1925)
• 1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1921 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founder of Chick-fil-A
• 1933 – Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
• 1945 – Michael Martin Murphey, American singer
• 1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
• 1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1979 – Chris Klein, American actor

Famous Deaths

• 1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1818)
• 1932 – George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (Gone With The Wind) (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (Mission Impossible) (b. 1926)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1946 - Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh
• 2006 - Comedian actor Jack Black weds musician and animator Tanya Haden 

Quote of the Day

World Book Day is on March 2, 2023, and is a celebration of authors, illustrators, books, and most importantly, it’s a celebration of reading! It's never too late to learn to read!

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 14, which is National Potato Chip Day, is some tips on Snack Substitutions from Kerry's Healthy Diet Habit website that might be better options than grabbing that bag of chips or cookies!

Planning 2 to 3 snacks per day is a healthy diet habit, that will allow you to keep your hunger, and blood sugar under control, and your metabolism working well.

This Day in History

• 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin
• 1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
• 1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon
• 1903 – The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt as the 1st national bird reservation
• 1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
• 1936 - 1st magazine of the US government, the Federal Register, debuts
• 1950 - FBI's, 10 Most Wanted Fugitives program begins
• 1967 – The body of US President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
• 2019 - Floods and over 1,000 deaths occur when Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique

This Day in Music

• 1958 - The first ever Gold Record is awarded for sales of a million copies to Perry Como  for Catch A Falling Star
  
• 1972 - Carole King's Tapestry album takes Album of The Year at the Grammy Awards
• 1972  - Carly Simon wins for best new artist at the Grammy Awards
• 1979 - Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive hits #1
  
• 1980 - Quincy Jones is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  
• 1989 - Debbie Gibson's Lost in Your Eyes hits #1
  
• 2005 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Percy Sledge, The O'Jays, U2, Buddy Guy, and The Pretenders
• 2011  Neil Diamond is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Darlene Love and Leon Russell

The song above is called Wildfire, by Michael Martin Murphey, born on this day in 1945.

This Day in Sports

• 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
• 1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
• 1978 - NFL permanently adds 7th official, a side judge
• 1987 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
• 1991 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning of Canada
• 1993 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
• 1997 -  The 67th James E Sullivan Award is awarded to Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!