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C ALENDAR
SUNDAY
March 2017
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
2
Peace Corps
Anniversary
Share a Smile Day
Yellowstone National
Park Est. (1872)
Dr. Seuss born, 1904
Read Across
America Day
9
FRIDAY
National Anthem
Day
Alexander Graham
Bell born, 1847
6
7
8
Boston Massacre
(1770)
Dav Pilkey born, 1966
Mem Fox born, 1946
Artist Michelangelo
born, 1475
Chris Raschka born,
1959
National Cereal Day
Scientist Luther
Burbank born, 1849
Telephone Patent
Granted (1876)
International
Women’s Day
Robert Sabuda born,
1965
12
13
14
15
Commonwealth Day
Good Samaritan Day
Uranus Discovered
(1781)
Pi Day (3.14)
Scientist Albert
Einstein born, 1879
Absolutely
Incredible Kid Day
Ides of March
20
21
22
23
24
Children’s Poetry Day
National Teen-Agers
Day
Single Parents’ Day
National Goof Off
Day
National Sing-Out Day
United Nations
World Water Day
Toast Day
Political Leader
Patrick Henry
declared, “Give me
liberty...”, 1775
Harry Houdini born,
1874
Exxon Valdez runs
aground (1989)
28
29
30
31
19
Swallows Return
to San Juan
Capistrano
26
Make up Your own
Holiday Day
Poet Robert Frost
born, 1874
1st Day of Spring
Louis Sachar born,
1954
27
Alaska hit by 8.4
Earthquake (1964)
“Greatest Show on
Earth” formed
1881
Doreen Cronin
Birthday
Coca-Cola was
Invented in 1886
Armed Forces left
Vietnam (1973)
Amerigo Vespucci
born, 1454
Barbie’s Birthday
(1959)
16
James Madison
born, 1751 (4th
President)
Doctor’s Day
Artist Vincent van
Gogh born, 1853
SATURDAY
3
5
Purim Begins at
sundown
Daylight Savings
Time Begins
R
10
Abolitionist Harriet
Tubman Day
1st Paper Money
Issued in 1862
17
Rubber Band
Invented
St. Patrick’s Day
Tater Day
Mathematician Rene
Descartes born,
1596
4
Iditarod Race Begins
First meeting of
Congress (1789)
11
Author Ezra Jack
Keats born, 1916
Johnny Appleseed
Day
18
First Walk in Space
(1965)
Sparky the Fire Dog
25
Pancakes First
Made (1882)
Sculptor Gutzon
Borglum born,
1871