Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 3, 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

• I Want You To Be Happy Day
• Simplify Your Life Day
• World Birth Defects Day
• World Wildlife Day
• 1791: The US Congress passed the first internal revenue act taxing distilled spirits and carriages
• 1791: Congress established the US Mint
• 1801: David Emanuel, the first Jewish Governor in the US, took office in Georgia
• 1842: Massachusetts passed the first US child labor law regulating working hours
• 1861: Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them the full rights of free citizens
• 1863: The first US wartime military conscription bill was enacted
• 1863: Gold certificates, as currency, were authorized by the US Congress
• 1865: The Freedmen’s Bureau was established
• 1869: The University of South Carolina opened to all races
• 1871: The US Congress changed the legal status of Native American tribes from independent to dependent and designating individual Native Americans as “wards” of the federal government
• 1873: US Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail
• 1879: Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court
• 1903: North Carolina became the first US state to require registration of nurses
• 1913: A Women’s Suffrage procession marched through Washington, DC. Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation despite blacks being told to march separately
• 1917: The US Congress passed the first excess profits tax on corporations
• 1917: The first major strike of the Russian “February Revolution” began at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd
• 1917: Mexico and the US renewed diplomatic relations
• 1919: Germany’s Communist Party announced a general strike
• 1935: The Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker’s Party (RSAP) was formed
• 1939: Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) to protest against autocratic rule in India
• 1956: Morocco gained independence from France
• 1966: A tornado hit Jackson, Mississippi, only 3 minutes after its first sighting, and caused the deaths of 57 people
• 1967: Grenada gained partial independence from Great Britain
• 1991: Latvia and Estonia voted to become independent of the USSR
• 1991: Los Angeles police officers severely beat Rodney King. The beating was captured on and later led to rioting when the police officers were acquitted
• 1991: Switzerland voted on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18
• 2017: A mass grave of 800 children and infants was confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
• 2019: Multiple tornadoes tore through Georgia and Alabama killing at least 23 people
• 2020: A powerful storm spawning multiple tornadoes ripped through central Tennessee causing at least 25 deaths
• 2020: Heavy rains and landslides hit coastal areas of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, Brazil, killing at least 18 people
• 2021: 38 people were shot and killed by security forces in anti-coup protests in Myanmar
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 3, 2022

• America Saves Week (February 28 – March 5)
• Fairtrade Fortnight (February 28 – March 13)
• Hearing Awareness Week (March 1-7)
• National Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week (March 1-6)
• Universal Human Beings Week (March 1-7)
• Losar (March 3-5)
  
  

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)