March 14th is

International Ask A Question Day *

MOTH-er (Moth Collectors) Day

Learn About Butterflies Day

National Pi Day (3.14 etc.) *

Potato Chip Day

Science Education Day

International Day of Action for Rivers *
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MORE! Lucy Hobbs Taylor, Sylvia Beach and Diane Arbus, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sikhism – New Year – 1 Chet, Nanakshahi 540

Albania – Dita e Verës
(Summer Day)

Andorra – Constitution Day

India – Bihar: Holi/Dhuleti
(festival of colors/vermillion day)

Japan – White Day (men respond
to valentine gifts from women)

Lebanon – Cedar Revolution
(anti-Syria coalition founded)

Peru – Ica: Wine Harvest Festival
Lima: Lacuna Coil Concert

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines –
National Heroes Day
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On This Day in HISTORY

1489 – Catherine Cornaro, the last Queen of Cyprus, goes into exile after being forced to abdicate and sell the administration of Cyprus to the Republic of Venice

1592 – Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.

1629 – A British Royal charter is granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann born, German Baroque composer

1743 – First American town hall meeting is held at Boston’s Faneuil Hall

1794 –Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin

1804 – Johann Strauss I born, Austrian Romantic composer, popularized the waltz; his son, Johann Strauss II, would be known as “The Waltz King”

1815 – Josephine Lang born, German composer

1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor born, women’s rights advocate, first American woman to graduate from dental school

1854 – Paul Ehrlich born, German biologist and immunologist, shared 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to immunology

1863 – Casey Jones born, American railroad engineer

1864 – Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa, naming it Lake Albert Nyanza

1868 – Emily Murphy born, Canadian jurist, author, and activist, first female magistrate in Canada, one of the ‘Famous Five’ whose case establishes Canadian women as ‘persons’ under the law

1879 – Albert Einstein in born in Germany, theoretical physicist; E = mc² called “world’s most famous equation”; 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”

1887 – Sylvia Beach born, American proprietor of the famous English-language bookstore in Paris, Shakespeare and Company; first publisher of the controversial novel Ulysses by James Joyce

1891 – The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel

1900 – The 1900 Gold Standard Act establishes gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, ending bimetallism (allowing silver to be exchanged for gold)

1900 – In Holland, Botanist/Geneticist Hugo de Vries, working with the evening primrose, rediscovers Mendel’s laws of heredity and theory of biological mutation

1903 – U.S. Senate ratifies the Hay-Herran Treaty to guarantee U.S. rights to build a canal at Panama, but the Columbian Senate rejects the treaty; on November 6, 1903, a deal is signed with the newly independent country of Panama

1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the first U.S. national bird sanctuary to protect pelicans and herons nesting on Pelican Island, near Sebastian FL

1912 – Les Brown Sr. born, American Big Band leader, musician and composer

1914 – Henry Ford announces the new continuous motion method to assemble cars, which reduces the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes

1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and architecture critic, won the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

1923 – Diane Arbus born, American photographer

1923 – President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.

1933 – Quincy Jones Jr. born, American composer-musician-producer

1936 – Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany’s only judge is God and itself

1939 – Hungary occupies the Carpatho-Ukraine, and Slovakia declares its independence

1939 – The Republic of Czechoslovakia is dissolved, leading to Nazi occupation.

1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first President to fly in an airplane while in office

1947 – The U.S. signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines

1947 – Moscow announces 890,532 German POWs have been held in the U.S.S.R.

1956 – The movie Rock Around the Clock, with Bill Haley, debuts in Washington DC

1958 – Perry Como’s “Catch A Falling Star” is certified as the first gold single

1963 – Gerry & the Pacemakers release their first British single, “How Do You Do It”

1976 – Egypt formally abrogates a 1971 Treaty Friendship and Cooperation with USSR

1977 – Heart releases their Little Queen album, featuring “Barracuda”

1979 – The Census Bureau reports 95% of all Americans are or will be married

1983 – OPEC agrees to cut its oil prices by 15% for the first time in its 23-year history

1989 – Imported assault guns banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush

1991 – The “Birmingham Six,” imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, were set free after a British court agrees the police fabricated evidence

1991 – Bolivian interior minister Guillermo Capobianco resigns after U.S. officials accuse him of receiving money from drug traffickers

1995 – American astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket

1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton commits $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants

1998 – The first International Day of Action for Rivers * is organized by International Rivers Network, started  by volunteers in 1995 to link advocacy groups working to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them

2002 – Five Scottish appeals court judges uphold conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, ruling unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi is guilty of bringing down the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland

2003 – Marilee G. Adams starts Ask A Question Day * on Albert Einstein’s birthday to encourage everyone to keep asking questions

2004 – Socialists score a dramatic upset win in Spain’s general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they’d provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq

2005 – A million people protest in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Syrian withdrawal

2008 – In Tibet, when police try to disperse a peaceful demonstration in Lhasa led by Buddhist monks, it escalates into violence, which spreads to other provinces; Chinese authorities close the region to foreign media; hundreds of police and Tibetan protesters are injured or killed; due to lack of press access, numbers vary and cannot be confirmed

2009 – National Pi Day (math Pi = 3.14159265 etc.) * started by Dan Hellerich, is recognized by the U.S. House of Representatives

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Visuals

• Potato Chips
• Butterfly, Science, River and Pi
• International flags
• Lady Philippa Speke, by unknown artist date 1592 – Can you find the 3 Pi now hidden in the picture?
• Lucy Hobbs Taylor
• Emily Murphy, women leaders quote
• Albert Einstein, questioning quote
• Sylvia Beach, books quote
• Pelican Island bid sanctuary
• Ada Louise Huxtable, bad building quote
• Diane Arbus, photography quote
• Four Year Old and Einstein
• Three Pi pies

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