Our library likes to display a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations, as well as the birthdays of famous people and authors/illustrators. For our display, I also include the birthdays of our students and faculty.
Feel free to adapt the list below to meet your needs. If you want to look at other lists, I have used Holiday Insights and National Day Calendar as well as calendars I receive from publishers.
It is always fun to plan special events around some of the crazy/wacky days. I’d love to hear how you celebrate some of these days.
Month-long Celebrations:
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Brain Injury Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Credit Education Month
National Women’s History Month
National Music in Our Schools Month
Week Celebrations:
2nd Week National Bubble Week
Will Eisner Week – March 1-7 – promoting Graphic Novels
Telecommuter Appreciation Week – Always the Week of Alexander Graham Bell’s Birthday – March 3
National Cheerleading Week – March 1-7
Iditarod Race – Starts First Saturday in March
World Orphan Week – First Week in March
National Consumer Protection Week – (First full week of March)
Newspapers in Education Week – First Saturday in March
Read an E-Book Week – First Full Week in March
Teen Tech Week – Starts First Sunday in March
National Agriculture Week – March 10-16, 2019
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week – Week of March 8th
Brain Awareness Week – March 11-17, 2019
Shakespeare Week – March 18-24, 2019
National Wildlife Week – March 12-16, 2019
American Crossword Puzzles Week – March 23-25
National Physicians Week – March 25-31
National Cleaning Week – Begins Fourth Sunday for Seven Days
Nano Days – Last weekend in March through the first weekend in April – nanoscience and engineering
Daily Celebrations and Birthdays:
1 Employee Appreciation Day first Friday in March
1 World Day of Prayer – First Friday of the month
1 National Day of Unplugging – First Friday in March
1 National Speech and Debate Education Day – First Friday in March
2 National Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss Day)
2 Dr. Seuss, author
2 Leo Dillon, author
2 National Banana Cream Pie Day
3 Patricia MacLachlan, author
3 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
4 Dav Pilkey, author
5 Mem Fox, author
6 Chris Raschka, author
6 National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
8 Kenneth Grahame, author
10 National Blueberry Popover Day
10 National Pack Your Lunch Day
10 Daylight Savings begins at 2:a.m. – date varies
11 Wanda Gag, author
11 Ezra Jack Keats, author
11 National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
11 National Napping Day – Day after Return of Daylight Savings Day
12 National Pancake Day – IHOP
12 National Baked Scallops Day
12 Virginia Hamilton, author
12 Naomi Shihab Nye, author
13 Ear Muff Day
13 Jewel Day
13 National Good Samaritan Day
13 National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
13 Thomas Rockwell, author
13 Diane Dillon, author
14 National Children’s Craft Day
14 National Write Down Your Story Day
14 Learn about Butterflies Day
14 Marguerite de Angeli, author
14 Albert Einstein, scientist
15 National Shoe the World Day
16 National Artichoke Hearts Day
16 Everything You Do is Right Day
16 International Sports Car Racing Day
16 Sid Fleischman, author
17 Corned Beef and Cabbage Day
18 National Awkward Moments Day
18 National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day
18 National Supreme Sacrifice Day
18 Douglas Florian, author
19 Poultry Day
19 National Chocolate Caramel Day
20 Proposal Day
20 Lois Lowry, author
20 Bill Martin, Jr., author
20 Louis Sachar, author
20 Fred Rogers, entertainer
21 David Wisniewski, author
21 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
21 Purim
21 National Common Courtesy Day
21 National Single Parents Day
21 National California Strawberry Day
22National Bavarian Crepes Day
22 Randolf Caldecott, illustrator – Caledcott Medal is named after him
24 National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day
24 Harry Houdini, entertainer
24 Bill Cleaver, author
25 Kate Dicamillo, author
25 Linda Sue Park, author
25 Pecan Day
25 Waffle Day
25 National Medal of Honor Day
25 National Tolkien Reading Day
26 Epilepsy Awareness Day – Purple Day
26 Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
26 Robert Frost, author
26 Betty MacDonald, author
26 Jerry Pallotta, author
27 Dick King-Smith, author
27 National Spanish Paella Day
27 National Little Red Wagon Day
28 National Black Forest Cake Day
28 Doreen Cronin, author
28 Byrd Baylor, author
29 Mary Stolz, author
29 Brendan Wenzel, author
29 National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
29 National Vietnam War Veterans Day
29 National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day
30 Take a Walk in the Park Day
30 National Virtual Vacation Day
30 Anna Sewell, author
30 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, scientist
31 National Clam on the Half Shell Day
