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Special Weeks in March
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March 4-10
- Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
March 4-10
- National School Breakfast Week
March 4-10
- Newspaper in Education Week
March 11-17
- Girl Scout Week
March 18-24
- National Agriculture Week
March 18-24
- National Spring Fever Week
March 25-30
- National Cleaning Week


March 1 - National Pig Day
- Peanut Butter Day
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March 2 - Dr. Seuss' birthday, Theodore Gissell (1904 - 1991)
- Texas Independence Day
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March 3
 - Alexander Graham Bell's birthday (1847)
- National Anthem Day
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March 4 - Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter has rings.
March 5 - Mem Fox's birthday (1946)
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March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birthday (1806)
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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
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March 12 - Virginia Hamilton's birthday (1936)
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March 13 - Discovery of Uranus (1781)
- President Andrew Johnson's impeachment begins
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March 14 - Albert Einstein's birthday (1879)
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March 15 - Julius Caesar was killed
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day
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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)
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March 22

 - Randolph Caldecott's birthday (1846)
- International Goof-Off Day
- Equal Rights Amendment
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March 24 - Harry Houdini's birthday (1874)
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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
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Today in History


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