March 14

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2026 Daily Holidays that fall on March 14, include:

• Bake a Pie in Solidarity Day 
• Celebrate Scientists Day 
• Crowdfunding Day
• Dog Theft Awareness Day (United Kingdom) 
• Dribble to Work Day 
• Genius Day 
• International Ask A Question Day 
• International Day of Action for Rivers 
• International Day of Mathematics 
• International Fanny Pack Day - March 14, 2026 (Second Saturday in March)
• Learn About Butterflies Day
• Legal Assistance Day
• Moth-er Day 
• National Children's Craft Day 
• National Genealogy Day - March 14, 2026 (Second Saturday in March)
• National Pi Day
• National Potato Chip Day 
• National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day - March 14, 2026 (Second Saturday in March)
• National Valerie Day - (People Named Valerie)
• Save a Spider Day 
  
• Science Education Day 
• White Day 
• Write Your Story Day 

2026 Weekly Holidays that include March 14, are:

• Campfire USA Birthday Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week in March) (Founded March 17, 1910)
• Collegiate Safe Spring Break Programming - Late February - Early April
• Endometriosis Awareness Week - March 4-19
• Girl Scout Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Week of March - Week that always has March 12th in it)
• Lent - February 18, 2026 - April 4, 2026 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 3, 2026)
• MS Awareness Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Aardvark Week - March 9-15, 2026 (Second Week of March)
• National Bubble Gum Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Catholic Sisters Week - March 8-14
• National Green Week - February 1 - April 30, 2026 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
• National Older Workers Employment Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Procrastination Week - March 9-15, 2026 (Second Week of March)
• National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Third Week of March)
• National Sleep Awareness Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Week begins with Daylight Savings Time)
• No More Week - March 8-14, 2026 (The Week of International Women's Day)
• Orthodox Lent - February 23, 2026 - April 4, 2026 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 8-14, 2026
• Ramadan - Evening of February 17, 2026 - Evening of March 18, 2026
• Termite Awareness Week - March 8-14, 2026
• Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign - March 11-17
• World Glaucoma Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March
• World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup - March 13-15, 2026 (Second Weekend in March in Sweetwater, TX)

2026 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)

• Chinese New Year Festival and Parade (San Francisco, CA) - February 7 - March 15, 2026;  Parade is on March 7, 2026
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo -  March 2-22, 2026 (Houston, TX)
• Paralympic Winter Games - March 6-15, 2026 in Milano Cortina
• Iditarod Race - March 7-22, 2026 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
• Indiana Flower and Patio Show - March 14-22, 2026 (Indianapolis, IN)

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 5, 2026, 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.

Season

March 14th falls within the Winter Season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Winter is one of the four seasons. It follows the Fall Season, and is before the Spring Season. It is the coldest and darkest season in the Northern Hemisphere. It also starts in one year, and ends in the next, so it straddles two different years. 

Check out our Winter Season page for information about Winter, Winter Dates, Major Winter Holidays and Observances, Major Winter Festivals, Fun Facts About Winter, Winter Food Tips, Winter Gardening, Winter Preparation, Winter Quotes, and Winter Weather Information.

Kerry has put together some great information and tips on winter foods: 

• Winter Foods
• Winter Weight Gain
• Winter Weight Loss Tips

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, this day falls in the Summer Season. 

• Summer
• Summer Cooking 
• Summer Weight Loss Tips 

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!