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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Banana Cream Pie Day'. This was one of the favorites of our soldiers during WW II.
[The Hankster says] I may have some new readers since last year at this time, well stranger things have happened. So, I will once again remind everyone that if you see three rather dumb looking guys (one with an Afro, one bald and one with a salad bowl hair cut) with cream pies in their hands and a smile on there face, run.
Tomorrow is 'National Old Stuff Day'.
[The Hankster says] Not what you think. It wants you to let go of the old and embrace the new..
We are two days into 'Celebrate Your Name Week.' Tomorrow is the first Monday of that week and is 'Fun Facts About Names Day'.
We have a birthday boy tomorrow and at the same time celebrate . 'National Read Across America Day / Dr. Seuss Day '. On Dr. Seuss birthday. Mar. 2 or Closest School Day
If you live in Illinois you might want to celebrate an official state holiday tomorrow. It will be 'Casimir Pulaski Day'. He was known as the Revolutionary War's 'Father of the American Calvary'. Ben Franklin secured him for us to train our troupes..
Tomorrow March 2, not April 21, is 'Texas Independence Day'.
Lewis Carroll once wrote 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.''
[The Hankster says] I'm sure there are a lot of things to talk about in the past. The time has come to look back to March 2 in that past, but I, not the Walrus will be your guide.
In 1791, The semaphore machine (optical telegraph), by the Chappe brothers, is used for the first time in Paris.
In 1899, Pres McKinley signs bill creating 'Mt Rainier National Park' (5th in US).
In 1933, 'King Kong', a movie distinguished for its use of stop-motion animation, premiers in New York.
In 1944, At the 16th Academy Awards, ' Best Picture is 'Casablanca'. Best Actor is Paul Lukas for 'Watch on the Rhine'. Best Actress is Jennifer Jones for 'The Song of Bernadette'.
In 1949, Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
In 1958, The first surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days.
In 1965, The movie 'The Sound of Music', starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released.
In 1967, At the 9th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is 'Strangers in the Night' by Frank Sinatra. Album of the Year is 'A Man and His Music' by Frank Sinatra. Song of the Year is 'Michelle' performed by The Beatles.
In 1969, The Maiden flight of the supersonic Concorde, at Toulouse takes place.
In 1972, The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
In 1974, At the 16th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' by Roberta Flack'. Album of the Year is 'Innervisions' by Stevie Wonder. Song of the Year is 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' performed by Roberta Flack'. Best new Artist is Bette Midler.
In 1988, At the 30th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is 'Graceland' by Paul Simon. Album of the Year is ' The Joshua Tree' by U2. Song of the Year is 'Somewhere Out There' performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram . Best new Artist is Jody Watley.
In 2002, The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with , 'Operation Anaconda' , (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
In 2004, The 'Rosetta' space probe is launched by the European Space Agency to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with Philae lander module aboard.
In 2014, At the 86th Academy Awards, Best Picture is '12 Years a Slave'. Best Actor is Matthew McConaughey for 'Dallas Buyers Club'. Best Actress is Cate Blanchett for 'Blue Jasmine'.
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Food Holiday:
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Exotic Winter Fruit and Leeks and Green Onions Month
National Celery Month
National Flour Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month
Other:
American Diabetes Alert Month
American Red Cross Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month
Dolphin Awareness Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
Hemophilia Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists are Artists Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Kidney Month
Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness and Training Month
Music in our Schools Month
National Athletic Trainers Month
National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
National Craft Month
National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
National Endometriosis Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Flower Month
National Kidney Month
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
National Poison Prevention Awareness Month
National Problem Gambling Awareness Month
National Professional Social Worker's Month
National Social Work Month
National Women's History Month
Red Cross Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Trisomy Awareness Month
March is:
March origin (from Wikipedia):
'The name of March comes from Latin Martius, the first month of the earliest
Roman calendar. It was named for Mars, the Roman god of war who was also
regarded as a guardian of agriculture and an ancestor of the Roman people
through his sons Romulus and Remus.
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March
'is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere,
the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March.
The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of
spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the
Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the
Northern Hemisphere's March.
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