Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 24, 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

• International Day for Achievers
• International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
• World Tuberculosis Day
• 1664: Roger Williams was granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
• 1765: Britain enacted the Quartering Act, which required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
• 1837: Canada gave its black citizens the right to vote
• 1853: The anti-slavery newspaper “The Provincial Freeman” was first published in Windsor, Ontario. It was edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who was the first black woman publisher in North America
• 1934: The US Congress passed the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years
• 1942: The US government began moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centers under Executive Order 9066, fearing espionage, sabotage, etc.
• 1944: Nazis occupying Rome executed 335 civilians in retaliation for the previous day’s Via Rassela bombing that killed 33 Germans
• 1947: Congress proposed a 2-term limitation on the presidency
• 1952: Large demonstrations against apartheid were held in South Africa
• 1955: British Army patrols withdrew from Belfast after 20 years
• 1966: The US Selective Service announced college deferments based on performance
• 1967: The University of Michigan held its first “Teach-in” after the bombing of North Vietnam
• 1972: Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland
• 1981: Colombia dropped diplomatic relations with Cuba
• 1990: Indian troops left Sri Lanka
• 1997: The Australian Parliament overturned the world’s first and only euthanasia law
• 1998: A tornado swept through Dantan, India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 more
• 2006: Long-term protests in Belarus were broken by police
• 2007: The Australian Labor Party was reinstated after the New South Wales state elections
• 2008: Bhutan officially became a democracy, with its first ever general election
• 2014: Ukraine withdrew its forces from the Crimea
• 2016: Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić was found guilty of genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and was sentenced to 40 years
• 2018: Tens of thousands of protestors, mostly teenagers, attended the ‘March for Our Lives’ rallies held in Washington, DC and around the world to protest gun violence
• 2018: Hundreds of protesters shut down a special meeting at Sacramento City Hall investigating the police shooting of Stephon Clark
• 2020: Indian PM Narendra Modi ordered a 21 day lockdown for the world’s second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19
• 2020: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until the summer of 2021 because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 24, 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)