Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 31, 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 Transgender Day of Visibility
- National Farm Workers Day
- World Backup Day
- 1492: Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon issued the Alhambra Decree expelling Jews from their kingdoms
- 1644: Pope Urbanus VIII and Duke of Parma signed the Peace of Ferrara
- 1651: Cuzco, Peru was shaken by a significant earthquake
- 1745: Jews were expelled from Prague
- 1808: The Kingdom of Westphalia ordered Jews to adopt family names
- 1822: Following an attempted rebellion, Ottoman Empire soldiers massacred the population of the Greek island of Chios
- 1870: Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey became the first African American to vote in the US
- 1916: The Dutch government ended all military engagements
- 1944: Hungary ordered all Jews to wear yellow stars
- 1945: The Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (security service) murdered 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
- 1958: The USSR suspended nuclear weapons tests and urged the US and Great Britain to do the same
- 1966: 25,000 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators marched in New York City
- 1970: Following an Orange Order parade, riots erupted that lasted three days in Belfast and the British Army used CS gas for the first time in large quantities
- 1976: A New Jersey Court ruled that long-term coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from a respirator at her parents’ order and allowed to die
- 1979: The last British soldier left the Maltese Islands
- 1980: US President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, deregulating the banking industry
- 1983: The Popayán Earthquake in Colombia killed 267 people and injured some 7,500 more
- 1990: Major riots occurred in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
- 1991: Albania offers its first multi-party election in 50 years
- 1991: The Soviet Republic of Georgia voted for independence from the USSR
- 2012: Fiji floods killed 2 people and forced the evacuation of thousands
- 2013: 11 people were killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius
- 2013: 2 people died from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
- 2017: Mudslides caused by heavy rains swept through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200 people
- 2021: US President Joe Biden overturned restrictions on transgender people serving in the armed forces
- 2021: New York state legalized the recreational use of marijuana although sales of it would not be legal for another 18 months
Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 31, 2022
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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)
