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March 1st
Mardi Gras
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law making it the first national park—not just in the U.S., but in the world in 1872
March 2nd
New Moon
Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss, b. 1904
March 3
Chief Joseph who led the Nez Perce on 1,400 mile flight from US military, b. 1840
Losar, Tibetan New Year
World Wildlife Day
March 5th
Rosa Luxemburg b. German-Marxist revolutionary leader, b. 1871
Mem Fox, Australian children’s book author who works to dismantle stereotypes and revels in the beauty of language, b. 1946
Howard Pyle, well known children’s book author who illustrated both Robin Hood and His Merry men and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table b.1853
March 6
Elizabeth Barrett Brown, poet, “How Do I love Thee” b. 1806
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbian, author, Nobel Prize in Literature, “ 100 Years Of Solitude”, b. 1927
Chris Raschka, Chris Raschka is a multi-award-winning author/illustrator of over 30 books for children including The Hello, Goodbye Window, Yo? Yes! b.1959
March 8th International Women’s Day
FBI suggests that Food Not Bombs has ties to terrorist organizations 2006
Robert Sabuda, children’s book author and pop-up book master, b.1965
March 9th
Electron microscope invented
March 10th
Revolt in Lhasa 300,000 Tibetans encircle Dalai Lama’s palace to protect him from arrest by the Chinese military, 1959
March 11th World Health Organization declares Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, 2020
The Oglala Sioux announced the creation of the Independent Oglala Nation (ION). The ION established a provisional government and reverted to the treaty of 1868 as its basis. Leaders stated that the ION would negotiate with the United States , nation-to-nation.
Peter Sis, Czeck born, US transplant children’s author and illustrator ( Madlenka, The Wall, Tibet, Ocean World, Tree of Life, among many others) with an absolutely unique style that engages children in an ongoing journey of the world and self-exploration, b. 1949
March 12th
Jack Kerouac, author “On the Road”, b. 1922
Virginia Hamilton, African American and Native American children’s literature author of fiction and non-fiction, fantasy, nature writing, biography and much more, b. 1936
March 13th
Daylight savings begins at 2 AM
Disability Rights Activists make “Capitol Crawl” for the American’s with Disabilities Act, in 1990
March 14th
Albert Einstein, inventor, discoverer of, the theory of relativity, b. 1879
March 16
Purim starts at sundown celebrates foiling Hamman’s plot to kill all the Jewish people in Persia
March 17th
St. Patrick’s Day
Full Worm Moon
Apartheid in South Africa ends in 1992
March 19th
Moms Mabley, first female comedian featured at the Apollo Theatre
March 20th
Henrik Ibsen, father of modern realism in theatre born 1828
Spring Equinox
Fred Rogers, creator of Mr Rogers Neighborhood, b. 1928
Mitsumasa Anno, prodigious Japanese children’s book author with a unique and compelling vision that combines art, math, science, storytelling, whimsy and detail. b. 1926
March 21
World Forest Day
Nowruz, Zoroastrian/Persian New Year
March 22
Randolf Caldecott, children’s illustrator, changed book illustration with his Christmas “Toy Books,” and is the namesake for the Caldecott Medal for best illustrated children’s books each year, b.1846-1886
World Water Day
March 24th
Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska, 1989
Archbishop Oscar Romero, voice of the voiceless who were being killed by the death squads backed by the CIA, assassinated in El Salvador
Sanctuary Movement started in Arizona, where churches provided sanctuary for people who were threatened with deportation in 1982
Harry Houdini, escape artist and debunker of mystics, b. 1874
March 25th
U.S. begins invasion and bombing of Iraq, 2003. Although estimates vary widely, 7,186 civilian deaths can be attributed to United States airstrikes and drones within the first two months of “Shock and Awe”. Between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S., its allies, the Iraqi military and police, and opposition forces from the time of the invasion through October 2019
“Scottsboro 9” were falsely charged and convicted of rape and collectively served over 100 years of imprisonment in 1931
Flannery O’Connor, writer “ A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Everything That Rises Must Converge” b. 1925
March 26th
Joseph Campbell, cultural anthropologist author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and The Masks of God, b. 1904
Cherokee Indians came to the end of the “Trail of Tears,” a forced march from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory, in 1839
March 27th
Patty Smith Hill, principal of the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten, wrote Happy Birthday, b.1868
March 28th
2 grandmas, 2 priests, and a nun sentenced for vandalizing US nuke stockpile
March 29th
Last U.S. troops leave South Vietnam in 1973
March 30
The 15th Amendment was passed in 1870. The 15th Amendment declared that the right of U.S. citizens to vote could “not be abridged or denied” by any state” on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Anna Sewall, author of Black Beauty, b 1820
March 31st
Marge Piercy, b. Writer activist, feminist, “Women on the Edge of Time,” The Art of Blessing the Day.”
