Anniversaries, Holidays, and Observances for March 25, 2021
Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!
On This Day
- International Day of the Unborn Child
- International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- National Cerebral Palsy Day
- 1807: the British Parliament abolished the slave trade throughout the British Empire with a penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
- 1900: the US Socialist Party formed in Indianapolis
- 1911: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire. 145 died
- 1942: the first 700 Jews from the Polish Lvov district reached the Bełżec Concentration camp
- 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1966: the US Supreme court ruled the “poll tax” unconstitutional
- 1986: the US Supreme Court ruled the Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
- 1987: the US Supreme Court ruled that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act 1964
- 2019: NASA cancelled a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn’t have enough spacesuits to fit women
Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 25, 2021
- International Week of Solidarity with Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Discrimination (March 21-27)
- National Agriculture Week (March 21-27)
- National Anonymous Giving Week (March 21-27)
- National Introverts Week (March 21-27)
- National Manufacturing Week (March 21-27)
March Monthly Holidays and Observances
- American Red Cross Month
- Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
- Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month
- Colic Awareness Month
- Brain Injury Awareness Month
- Credit Education Month
- Deaf History Month (March 13-April 15)
- DVT Awareness Month
- Employee Spirit Month
- National Endometriosis Awareness Month
- Expanding Girl’s Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
- Gardening, Nature, and Ecology Books Month
- Gender Equality Month
- Hemophilia Month
- International Ideas Month
- International Listening Awareness Month
- Kidney Month
- National MR/DD Awareness Month
- National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
- National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
- National Color Therapy Month
- National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
- National Ethics Awareness Month
- National Kidney Month
- National MS Education and Awareness Month
- National Nutrition Month
- National Optimism Month
- National Poison Prevention Awareness Month
- National Women Inventor’s Month
- National Women’s History Month
- Save Your Vision Month
- Spiritual Wellness Month
- Lent (February 17-April 3)
