Because I felt like posting a second time today

[dampscribbler]

Wednesday, March 17 is:

Doctor-Patient Trust Day; National Common Courtesy Day; Saint Patrick's Day; Saint Patrick's Day Parade (NYC); beginning of Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Thursday, March 18

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day; Awkward Moments Day; Forgive Mom & Dad Day; anniversary of the marketing of the first electric razor by Schick in 1931; birthday of George Plimpton (b. 1927) and John Updike (b. 1932); Companies That Care Day; National Biodiesel Day; National Festival of the West



Friday, March 19

Anniversary Operation Iraqi Freedom; anniversary of the creation of Daylight Savings Time in 1918; Iran's National Day of Oil (commemorating the nationalization of the oil fields in 1963); birthday of Irving Wallace (b. 1916), William Jennings Bryan (b.1860), Philip Roth (b. 1933) and Bruce Willis (b. 1955); Snowman Burning (reading of poetry heralding the end of winter and the arrival of spring).

Saturday, March 20

The vernal equinox is at 8 p.m. EST, marking the beginning of Spring in the Northern hemisphere and the beginning of Fall in the Southern Hemisphere; Anonymous Giving Week; National Agriculture Day; Great American Meatout (Americans are encouraged to eat vegetarian, at least for a day); Celebration of Ostara (one of the "Lesser Sabbats" of the Wiccan year); Proposal Day; National Quilting Day; birthday of Norwegian playwright Henrick Ibsen (b. 1828), Lois Lowry (b. 1937) and "Mr." Fred Rogers (b. 1928).

Sunday, March 21

Beginning of the period signifying the astrological symbol for Aries, the Ram--until April 19; Memory Day (encouraging the awareness of traditional memory systems--see books by Tony Buzan); anniversary of Namibian Independence from South Africa in 1990 and the Selma Civil Rights March in 1965; National Dance Day; Beginning of National Poison Prevention Week and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week; United Nations: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; birthday of Rosie O'Donnell (b. 1962), Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1685), vintner Julio Gallo (b. 1910) and Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez (b. 1806).

Monday, March 22

As Young As You Feel Day; International Day of the Seal (arf-arf); International Goof-off Day (how about a Goof-off Year?); Puerto Rico Emancipation Day (commemorating the end of slavery in 1873); United Nations: World Day for Water; birthday of actor William Shatner (b. 1931), Robert Quinlan (Bob) Costas (b. 1952), Louis L'Amour (b. 1908), Gabrielle Roy (b. 1919) and Nicholas Monsarrat (b. 1910).

Comments

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

Doctor-Patient trust day? Shucks, and me without my party hat. :)

Where'd you find all these?

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Publishers Weekly sends out a couple of different daily newsletters -- let's see, that list was in Monday's PW Daily for Booksellers. I'm not supposed to be getting the newsletter any more, because I don't subscribe to their expensive magazine, but I'm still getting it. :-)

Wish I knew where they got the list from, though. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Who knew there were so many Days in a week?

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

By the way, they have the time of the vernal equinox very wrong. The time will be 1:49 am, EST, 10:49pm the night before (March 19) here on the west coast.