Blackwell's Best -March Days

March is National Youth Art Month, National Peanut Month, Irish American Heritage Month, National Craft Month, National Nutrition Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Women's History Month, American Red Cross Month,

March Madness

Classroom Connect - March Calendar

March into Spring with Education World - Resources for Teaching About March's Special Days

March Fun at Education World

March at Enchanted Learning

March Calendar Station

March at AOK TeacherStuff

Fact Monster Daily Feature gives loads of information about each day.

March ideas at Kinderart

March at A to Z Kids Stuff

March at abcteach.com & Special Days to Celebrate in March

March Theme Units

March Internet Hunt by Cindy O'Hora

March at the Teacher's Corner

March at Read Write Think

March Coloring Calendar

Special Weeks in March

March 1-7

- Return the Borrowed Books Week

March 3-9

- Children's Authors and Illustrators Week

March 4-8

- National School Breakfast Week

March 4-8

- Newspaper in Education Week

March 10-16

- Girl Scout Week

March 17-23

- National Agriculture Week

March 17-23

- National Spring Fever Week

March 24-30

- National Cleaning Week

March 1

- National Pig Day
- Peanut Butter Day

March 2

- Dr. Seuss' birthday, Theodore Gissell (1904 - 1991)
- Texas Independence Day

March 3

- Alexander Graham Bell's birthday (1847)
- National Anthem Day

March 4

- Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter has rings.

March 5

- Mem Fox's birthday (1946)

March 6

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birthday (1806)

March 7

- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost was published

March 8

- Egypt opens the Suez Canal

March 10

- Jack Kent's birthday (1920-1965)
- First paper money was issued
- Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call

March 11

- Ezra Jack Keats' birthday

March 12

- Virginia Hamilton's birthday (1936)

March 13

- Discovery of Uranus (1781)
- President Andrew Johnson's impeachment begins

March 14

- Albert Einstein's birthday (1879)

March 15

- Julius Caesar was killed

March 17

- St. Patrick's Day

March 19

- Wyatt Earp's birthday (1848)
- Swallows return to Capistrano

March 20

- Spring Begins
- Lois Lowry's birthday

March 21

- Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday (1685)

March 22

- Randolph Caldecott's birthday (1846)
- International Goof-Off Day
- Equal Rights Amendment

March 23

- Easter

March 24

- Harry Houdini's birthday (1874)

March 27

- Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier

March 28

- Three Mile Island Disaster

March 29

- Coca Cola was first introduced in 1886
- US withdraws from Vietnam

March 30

-Vincent van Gogh's birthday (1853)
- President Ronald Regan was shot

March 31

- Eiffel Tower Anniversary

The World Almanac E-Newsletter for March 2008 gives info on March events, holidays, birthdays, this day in history and much much more.

Today in History

On This Day from the New York Times Learning Network will give you facts about what happened each day in history.

This page was last updated on Saturday, March 01, 2008.