Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 14, 2022

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 here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• Check Your Batteries Day
• Crowdfunding Day
• Daylight Savings Starts
• Write Your Story Day
• 1559: Storms and floods ravaged Gorinchem, Dordrecht, and Woudrichem, Netherlands
• 1743: The first town meeting in the American Colonies was held in Boston’s Faneuil Hall
• 1900: US currency was put on the gold standard after Congress passed the Currency Act
• 1904: In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the US Supreme Court found the company had violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by controlling three railroad companies creating a monopoly
• 1907: By Presidential order, Japanese laborers were excluded from entering the US
• 1909: The Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) formed
• 1913: The South African Supreme Court declared that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, were invalid, thereby invalidating all Muslim and Hindu marriages
• 1914: Serbia and Turkey signed a peace treaty
• 1923: The German Supreme Court prohibited the NSDAP (Nazi party)
• 1923: US President Warren G. Harding became the first President to pay taxes
• 1941: Nazi occupiers of Holland prohibited Jewish owned companies
• 1943: Kraków’s Jewish Ghetto was “liquidated”
• 1951: An earthquake struck Euskirchen, Germany
• 1958: South Africa’s government prohibited the African National Congress
• 1962: A disarmament conference opened in Geneva without France
• 1965: The Israeli cabinet approved diplomatic relations with West Germany
• 1968: CBS TV suspended Radio Free Europe (RFE) free advertising because RFE didn’t make clear it was CIA sponsored
• 1971: The Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
• 1991: The English Court of Appeal freed the “Birmingham 6” who had been unjustly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment
• 2003: A weekend of protests against war in Iraq attended by millions of people began
• 2016: NASA released data showing February 2016 was the warmest month ever recorded globally
• 2017: The European Court of Justice ruled companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
• 2017: The world’s oldest golf club, Muirfield, in Scotland, after 273 years, voted to admit women as members for the first time
• 2018: The UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats after a Russian-made nerve agent was used on a former spy in the UK
• 2018: Students across America staged mass walkouts from classes to protest against gun violence
• 2018: Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco was murdered, prompting mass protests
• 2019: Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique and Malawi, killing at least 470 and causing widespread flooding
• 2019: California was declared officially free of drought for the first time since December 2011
• 2021: Myanmar opposition leader Mahn Win Khaing Than called for a revolution as more than 120 protestors had been killed during the ongoing protests, saying “This is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close”
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 14, 2022

• MS Awareness Week (March 13-19)
• National Sleep Awareness Week (March 13-19)
• Universal Women’s Week (March 13-19)
• World Glaucoma Week (March 13-19)
• (International) Brain Awareness Week (March 14-20)
• Native American Awareness Week (March 14-18)
  
  

March Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
• American Diabetes Alert Month
• Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
• American Red Cross Month
• Brain Injury Awareness Month
• Colic Awareness Month
• Credit Education Month
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month
• Endometriosis Month
• Gender Equality Month
• Hemophilia Month
• International Ideas Month
• International Listening Awareness Month
• Kidney Month
• Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness and Training Month
• National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
• National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
• National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• National Endometriosis Awareness Month
• National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
• National Ethics Awareness Month
• National Eye Donor Month
• National Kidney Month
• National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
• National Nutrition Month
• National Optimism Month
• National Women’s History Month
• Rosacea Awareness Month
• Save Your Vision Month
• Spiritual Wellness Month
• Trisomy Awareness Month
• Vascular Anomalies Awareness Month
• Workplace Eye Healthy and Safety Awareness Month
• Lent (March 2 – April 14)
• Orthodox Lent (March 7 – April 23)