Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 21, 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

• Education Freedom Day
• International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• National Renewable Energy Day
• Memory Day
• National Common Courtesy Day
• World Down Syndrome Day
• 1349: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews awere killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany
• 1788: Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1788: Olaudah Equiano, aka Gustavus Vassa, a freed slave, petitioned King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
• 1913: Flooding began in Ohio that killed 400 people over the next few days
• 1925: Tennessee governor Austin Peay signed the “Butler Act,” making Tennessee the first state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution, though this law would be repealed in 1967
• 1934: Fire destroyed Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 people
• 1937: In the Ponce massacre, Ponce, Puerto Rico’s police killed 19 people and wounded more than 200 at a parade commemorating the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico as well as protesting the imprisonment of the leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
• 1947: US President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have “complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States”
• 1952: A tornado outbreak began that swept through Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky killing 343 people
• 1960: Sharpeville Massacre: Police in Sharpesville, South Africa committed the Sharpesville Massacre, firing on protestors protesting “pass laws” that were a part of the apartheid system, and killing 72 of the protestors
• 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of supporters began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
• 1972: The US Supreme Court ruled states cannot require 1 year of residency before citizens are allowed to vote
• 1975: Ethiopia abolished its monarchy after 3,000 years
• 1979: The Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved a peace treaty with Israel
• 1985: In a bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 people were killed
• 1990: Namibia became independent of South Africa
• 1991: A UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
• 2013: 24 people were killed and 100 were injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China
• 2013: A dispute over a bartered transaction escalated into civil unrest that resulted in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burned to the ground in Myanmar
• 2018: China announced greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
• 2019: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ban on “military-style” semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack
• 2019: Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declared a state of emergency in response to destructive flooding
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 21, 2022

• 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)
• (International) Week of Solidarity with Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Discrimination (March 21-27)
  
  

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)