Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 20, 2022

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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

  • International Day of Happiness
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day
  • International Earth Day
  • World Storytelling Day
  • 1525: Paris’ Parliament began pursuit of Protestants
  • 1627: France and Spain signed an accord to fight Protestantism together
  • 1760: The Great Fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings
  • 1774: The British Parliament passed the first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party
  • 1816: The US Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions
  • 1861: An earthquake completely destroyed Mendoza, Argentina
  • 1865: Michigan authorized workers’ cooperatives
  • 1933: Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was completed
  • 1939: 7,000 Jews fled German occupied Memel, Lithuania
  • 1952: The US Senate ratified the treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
  • 1956: Mount Bezymianny on the USSR’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted
  • 1956: Tunisia gained independence from France
  • 1956: Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
  • 1968: US President Lyndon B Johnson signed a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
  • 1982: Reverend Andries Treurnicht formed the Conservative Party of South Africa
  • 1984: The US Senate rejected a Constitutional Amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
  • 1986: New York City passed its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
  • 1991: The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously employers can’t exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage a fetus
  • 2004: Stephen Harper won the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party’s first leader
  • 2005: A 6.6 earthquake hit Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years, killing one person and injuring hundreds
  • 2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country’s banana crop
  • 2019: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts called the state’s flooding “the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state’s history”
  • 2020: Smoke from Australian bushfires killed more people than the fires – 417 vs 33 according to new study published in the “Medical Journal of Australia”
  • 2021: Severe “hundred-year” flooding in Sydney and the surrounding state of New South Wales prompted evacuation orders

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 20, 2022

  • (International) Brain Awareness Week (March 14-20)
  • International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week (March 20-26)
  • National Agriculture Week (March 20-26)
  • National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week (March 20-26)
  • National Poison Prevention Week (March 20-26)

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)

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