March 8

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2026 Daily Holidays that fall on March 8, include:

• Check Your Batteries Day - March 8, 2026 (Second Sunday in March)
• Daylight Savings Start - March 8, 2026 (Ahead 1 hour @2:00am)
• Girl Scout Sunday - March 8, 2026 (The Sunday in Girl Scout Week, or closest to March 12)
• Girls Write Now Day 
  
• International Women's Day 
• National August Day 
• National Be Nasty Day 
  
• National Dry Shampoo Day - March 8, 2026 (Second Sunday in March)
• National Oregon Day
• National Peanut Cluster Day 
• National Proofreading Day 
  
• National Retro Video Game Day
• UN Day for Women's Rights & International Peace 

2026 Weekly Holidays that include March 8, 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)
• International Women's Week - March 7-10, 2026 (Week starting with the First Saturday of March to the International Women's Day on March 8th)
• 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)
• MS Awareness Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Bubble Gum Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Butchers Week - March 2-8, 2026
• 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 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Third Week of March)
• National Science & Engineering Week - March 6-12, 2026 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in 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
• Universal Women's Week - March 7-10, 2026
• Vehicle Safety Recalls Week - March 4-10
• World Glaucoma Week - March 8-14, 2026 (Second Full Week of March)

2026 Monthly Holidays that include March 8, 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)
• 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
• Iditarod Race - March 7-22, 2026 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
• International Women's Collaboration Brew Day - March 8 (Same Day as International Women's Day)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 8 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

• 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
• 1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician, singer, songwriter, actor. (The Monkees)
• 1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor (Legends of the Fall)
  
• 1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress (The Practice)
• 1976 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer, 24)
• 1976 – Hines Ward, American football player

Famous Deaths

• 1874 - Millard Fillmore, US 13th President from 1850-53
• 1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1991 - Harry Hamlin marries Nicollette Sheridan

Quote of the Day

March 8th is International Women's Day!

She is more precious than rubies.... Proverbs 31:10

She is clothed with strength and dignity, & she laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.  ~Proverbs 31:25-26

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

Winter weight gain seems to be a fact of life. Those insidious few pounds, that you worked so hard to eliminate in the summer months, seem to creep back on once winter rolls around. 

The Holidays and Observances Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day for March 8, is a collection of tips on how to avoid Winter Weight Gain.

Season

March 8th 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

• 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• 1838 - US mint in New Orleans begins operation producing dimes
• 1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls
• 1894 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog licensing law
• 1911 - 1st International Woman's Day
• 1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
• 1920 - Cuba & Denmark join the League of Nations
• 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations
• 1965 - 3,500 Marines are the 1st US combat forces to arrive in Vietnam 
• 1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
• 1979 – Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time
• 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire"
• 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur on their way to Beijing. There were a total of 239 people on board.

This Day in Music

• 1975 - Olivia Newton John's Have You Never Been Mellow hits #1
  
• 1976 - Gary Wright's Dream Weaver is certified gold
• 1986 -  Diana Ross's Chain Reaction, written by the Bee Gees, hits #1 on the UK singles chart 
• 1986 - Whitney Houston's Whitney Houston Album hits #1 on the US album charts
• 1994 - Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral is released
• 2009 - U2's album No Line on The Horizon hits #1 on the UK album charts
  

This Day in Sports

• 1930 - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankees
• 1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
• 1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!