March 6

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2026 Daily Holidays that fall on March 6, include:

• Alamo Day 
• Day of the Dude 
• Dentist Day 
• Dress in Blue Day - March 6, 2026 (First Friday in March)
• Employee Appreciation Day - March 6, 2026 (First Friday in March)
• European Day of the Righteous
  
• Middle Name Pride Day - March 6, 2026 (Friday of First Full Week in March which is Celebrate Your Name Week)
• National Brian Day - (People Name Brian)
• National Damien Day - (People Named Damien)
• National Dress Day 
  
• National Ford Day - (People Name Ford)
• National Frozen Food Day
• National Oreo Cookie Day
• National Report General Service Administration (GSA) Fraud Day 
• National Salesperson Day - March 6, 2026 (First Friday in March)
• National Shirley Day - (People Named Shirley)
• National Speech and Debate Education Day - March 6, 2026 (First Friday in March)
• National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day 
• No Homework Day - March 6, 2026 (also on May 6)
• World Day of Prayer - March 6, 2026 (First Friday in March)

2026 Weekly Holidays that include March 6, are:

• Celebrate Your Name Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week in March)
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Week of March)
• Collegiate Safe Spring Break Programming - Late February - Early April
• Dental Assistant Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• Endometriosis Awareness Week - March 4-19
• Hearing Awareness Week - March 1-7
• Jewish Book Week - February 28 - March 8, 2026 (Literary Festival in London)
• 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)
• National Butchers Week - March 2-8, 2026
• National Cheerleading Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Week in March)
• National Consumer Protection Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• National Day of Unplugging - Sundown of March 6 to Sundown of March 7, 2026 (First Friday/Saturday of March)
• National Dental Assistants Recognition Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week in March)
• National Ghostwriters Week - March 1-7
• National Green Week - February 1 - April 30, 2026 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
• National Invest in Veterans Week - March 1-7
• National Pasty Week - March 1-7, 2026 (Closest to St. Piran's Day on March 5th)
• National Pet Sitters Week - March 1-7
• National PTA Drug & Alcohol Awareness Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• National School Breakfast Week - March 2-6, 2026 (Mon-Fri of the First Full Week in March)
• National Schools Social Work Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• National Science & Engineering Week - March 6-12, 2026 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in March)
• National Words Matter Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week - March 1-7
• Newspaper in Education Week - March 2-6, 2026 (First Full School Week in March)
• Orthodox Lent - February 23, 2026 - April 4, 2026 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Professional Pet Sitters Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week in March)
• Ramadan - Evening of February 17, 2026 - Evening of March 18, 2026
• Read Across America Week - March 2-6, 2026 (M-F week of Dr. Seuss Birthday on March 2)
• Read an E-Book Week - March 1-7, 2026
• Return The Borrowed Books Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Week of March)
• Save Your Vision Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week of March)
• Teen Tech Week - March 1-7, 2026 (First Full Week in March)
• Telecommuter Appreciation Week - March 1-7, 2026 (Week that includes Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday of 3/2)
• Universal Human Beings Week - March 1-7
• Vehicle Safety Recalls Week - March 4-10
• Will Eisner Week - March 1-7
• Women in Construction Week - March 1-7, 2026

2026 Monthly Holidays that include March 6, 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
• North Dakota Winter Show - March 1-7, 2026 (Valley City, ND)
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo -  March 2-22, 2026 (Houston, TX)
• Expo West (Anaheim, CA) - March 3-6, 2026
• Crufts (The World's Largest Dog Show) held in Birmingham, England - March 5-8, 2026
• International Festival of Owls - March 6-8, 2026 in Houston, Minnesota
• Paralympic Winter Games - March 6-15, 2026 in Milano Cortina

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 6 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

• 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564)
• 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
• 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
• 1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (Star Search, The Johnny Carson Show) (d. 2009)
• 1924 – William H. Webster, American lawyer, former FBI and CIA director
• 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the US from 1987 to 2006
• 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
• 1947 – Kiki Dee, British singer (I loved the Duet she did in 1976 with Elton John, Don't Go Breaking My Heart - it went to #1 in both the US and the UK)
• 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
• 1963 – Suzanne Crough, American actress (Partridge Family)
• 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

Famous Deaths

• 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman who died at the Battle of the Alamo (b. 1786)
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist of Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys  (I LOVED her books!!) (b. 1832)
• 1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)
• 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress and activist for disability causes, widow of Christopher Reeve (Superman) (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker who with his brother Julio, founded the E.& J. Gallo Winery in 1933 (b. 1909)
• 2016 - Nancy Reagan, American actress and wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Ronald Reagan from 1981-1989

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1964 - Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor divorce (Her 4th divorce)
  

Quote of the Day

Will Social Security Benefits be available to you when you retire?  That is a big question! Per an article written in 2010 by Steven C. Goss, Chief Actuary of the US Social Security Administration. "As a result of changes to Social Security enacted in 1983, benefits are now expected to be payable in full on a timely basis until 2037, when the trust fund reserves are projected to become exhausted.  At the point where the reserves are used up, continuing taxes are expected to be enough to pay 76 percent of scheduled benefits. Thus, the Congress will need to make changes to the scheduled benefits and revenue sources for the program in the future."  You can read the entire article for more information.

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

On March 6, instead of a Recipe of the Day, we are having a Food Tip of the Day!  Today is National Frozen Food Day, and Kerry, from Healthy Diet Habits has lots of tips on Frozen Vegetables and Tips to Shop for them, or make your own.

Season

March 6th 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

• 1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
• 1788 – The First Fleet (11 ships leaving Britain for Australia), arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement
• 1808 - 1st college orchestra in the US is founded at Harvard
• 1836 - 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans (including Davy Crockett)  at the Alamo, after a 13 day fight
• 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that slaves cannot be citizens
• 1886 - 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, debuts in New York City
  
• 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark
• 1912 – The Oreo cookie is introduced by Nabisco
• 1918 - US naval boat, Cyclops, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle
• 1944 - The US Air Force begins daylight bombing of Berlin
• 1950 - Silly Putty invented
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States from Russia
• 1981 – Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time on the CBS Evening News after 19 years
• 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

This Day in Music

• 1975 - Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti is certified gold
• 1975 - Average White Band's Pick Up The Pieces is certified gold
• 1993 - Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle went to #1 with A Whole New World, the theme song of Disney's Aladdin
• 2000 - Eric Clapton is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making him the first person inducted three times. He was inducted in as a member of the groups, The Yardbirds and Cream.

Above is Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle singing their duet, A Whole New World, the theme song of Disney's Aladdin that went to #1 on this day in 1993.

Below is Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, singing the same song together.  I think they did a great job with the song! 

This Day in Sports

• 1922 - Babe Ruth signs a contract with the New York Yankees for  $52,000 a year, for 3 years
• 1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all time highest money maker
• 1976 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
• 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played
• 1985 - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!