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C alendar
March 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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3
Peace Corps Anni-
versary
Share a Smile Day
Yellowstone Nat.
Park Est. (1872)
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8
National Cereal Day
Scientist Luther Bur-
bank born, 1849
Telephone Patent
Granted (1876)
International
Women’s Day
Robert Sabuda born,
1965
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15
National Wildlife
Refuge System
Pi Day (3.14)
Scientist Albert Ein-
stein born, 1879
Absolutely Incredi-
ble Kid Day
Julius Caesar Assas-
sinated (44 B.C.)
Ides of March
Dr. Seuss born, 1904
Read Across Ameri-
ca Day
9
Explorer Amerigo
Vespucci born,
1454
16
Sid Fleischman
born, 1920
James Madison
born, 1751 (4th
President)
Patricia MacLach-
lan born, 1938
Inventor Alexander
Graham Bell born,
1847
FRIDAY SATURDAY
4
5
First meeting of
Congress (1789)
12
13
Abolitionist Harriet
Tubman Day
1st Paper Money
Issued in 1862
Author Ezra Jack
Keats born, 1916
Johnny Appleseed Day
Earthquakes devas-
tate Japan (2011)
Girl Scout Day
Anniv. of the Death of
Anne Frank (1945)
Virginia Hamilton
born, 1936
Daylight Savings
Time Begins
Good Samaritan Day
Uranus Discovered
(1781)
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20
Wendell Minor born,
1944
Rubber Band Invented
St. Patrick’s Day
First Walk in Space
(1965)
Grover Cleveland
born, 1837 (22nd
& 24th President)
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24
25
Children’s Poetry
Day
National Teen-Agers
Day
Single Parents’ Day
National Goof Off
Day
National Sing-Out Day
United Nations
World Water Day
Purim Begins at
sundown.
Patrick Henry
declared, “Give me
liberty...”, 1775
Harry Houdini born,
1874
Exxon Valdez runs
aground (1989)
Pancakes First Made
(1882)
Sculptor Gutzon Bor-
glum born, 1871
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31
Doctor’s Day
Alaska Purchased
(1867)
Artist Vincent van
Gogh born, 1853
Artist Michelangelo
born, 1475
Chris Raschka born,
1959
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22
Coca-Cola was In-
vented in 1886
Armed Forces left
Vietnam (1973)
Iditarod Race Begins
Boston Massacre
(1770)
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21
“Greatest Show on
Earth” formed 1881
Doreen Cronin
Birthday
SUNDAY
6
First Map of the US
Published (1784)
Mathematician Rene
Descartes born,
1596
Swallows Return
to San Juan
Capistrano
Palm Sunday
1st Day of Spring
Big Bird’s Birthday
(Sesame Street)
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Make up Your own
Holiday Day
Poet Robert Frost
born, 1874
27
Easter
Alaska hit by 8.4
Earthquake (1964)
Dick King-Smith
born, 1922