Timely Tie-Ins™

March 2010

March is the month for:

• American Red Cross Month
• Employee Spirit Month
• Frozen Food Month
• Humorist Are Artists Month
• International Listening Awareness Month
• International Mirth Month
• Mental Retardation Month
• National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• National Craft Month
• National Ethics Awareness Month 
• National Kidney Month
• National Nutrition Month
• National Peanut Month
• National Social Work Month
• National Umbrella Month
• National Women's History Month
• National Multiple Sclerosis Education And Awareness Month
• Optimism Month
• Play The Recorder Month
• Red Cross Month
• Small Press Month
• Spiritual Wellness Month
• 1, National Pig Day
• 1, Articles Of Conferation Ratified: Anniversary, 1781
• 1-7, National Cheerleading Week
• 1-7, National Procrastination Week
• 1-7, National Sleep Awareness Week
• 1-7, National Words Matter Week
• 1-7, National Write A Letter Of Appreciation Week
• 1-5, Newspapers In Education Week
• 1, Peace Corps Founded: Anniversary, 1961
• 1, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Birth Anniversary, 1848
• 1, Lindbergh Kidnapping: Anniversary, 1932
• 1, Salem Witch Hysteria Begins: Anniversary, 1692
• 2, Theodor Geisel Birth Anniversary, 1905
• 3, Stop The B.S. (Bad Service) Day
• 4, First Tavern In US Opened In Boston, 1634
• 4, March Forth Day
• 4, National Grammar Day
• 5, Stop The Clocks Day
• 5, Mother-In-Law Day
• 5, Boston Massacre, 1770
• 5, Iron Curtain Speech: Anniversary, 1946
• 6, Dred Scott Decision: Anniversary, 1857
• 6, Lou Costello Birth Anniversary
• 6, Narcissus Day
• 6, Michelangelo: Birth Anniversary, 1475
• 7-13, Celebrate Your Name Week
• 7, Monopoly Invented, 1933
• 7, Telephone Patented, 1876
• 8, Be Nasty Day
• 8, International Working Women's Day
• 8, Income Tax Day, 1913, Thanks to the of 16th Amendment The IRS Begins to Collect Income Taxes
• 9, Barbie Debuts: Anniversary, 1959
• 10, Whoopsical Day
• 10, Alexander G. Bell made 1st call, 1876
• 10, U.S. Paper Money First Issued, 1862
• 10, Mario Day (Take MAR for March and 10)
• 11, Johnny Appleseed Day
• 12, Girl Scout Day -- Girl Scouts Founded, 1912
• 13, Good Samaritan Involvement Day
• 14, International Ask a Question Day
• 14-20, National Agriculture Week
• 14, Potato Chip Day
• 15, Ides of March
• 15-21, Act Happy Week
• 15-21, International Brain Awareness Week
• 16, Freedom of Information Day
• 17, St. Patrick's Day
• 17, Rubber Band Invented, 1845
• 18, Casey Jones Day
• 18, Awkward Moments Day
• 19, Act Happy Day
• 19, U.S. Standard Time Act: Anniversary, 1918
• 20, Spring Begins 1:32 PM EDT
• 20, National Quilting Day
• 21, Memory Day
• 21, Selma Civil Rights March: Anniversary, 1965
• 22-28, World Folk Tales And Fables Week
• 22, International Goof-Off Day
• 23, It's O.K. Day (The Boston Morning Post printed the first known use of OK on this day in 1839. OK is used in most languages. OK is short for a jovial misspelling of all correct, oll korrect.)
• 23, National Puppy Day
• 23, Near Miss Day; Anniversary 1989
• 24, National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
• 25, National Lobster Newburg Day
• 26, Camp David Accord Signed: Anniversary 1978
• 27, Lazy Moocher's Day
• 27, National Joe Day
• 27, Smithsonian National Kite Festival
• 28, "Hair" Broadway Opening: Anniversary, 1968
• 28, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Anniversary, 1979
• 29, Karen Ann Quinlan Birth Anniversary, 1954
• 29, Alchemy Day
• 30, National Hot Dog Day
• 30, U.S. Bought Alaska From Russia, 1867
• 31, Eiffel Tower Opened, 1889
• 31, Daylight Savings Time 1st Went Into Effect,  1918