March 10

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on March 10, include:

• Check Your Batteries Day - March 10, 2024 (Second Sunday in March)
  
• Daylight Savings Start - March 10, 2024 (Ahead 1 hour @2:00am)
• Festival of Life in the Cracks Day 
  
• Girl Scout Sunday - March 10, 2024 (The Sunday in Girl Scout Week, or closest to March 12)
• Harriet Tubman Day 
• Histotechnology Professionals Day 
• International Bagpipe Day 
• International Day of Awesomeness 
• Land Line Telephone Day 
• Mario Day
• Mothering Sunday - March 10, 2024 (21 Days before Easter)
• National Blueberry Popover Day 
• National Dry Shampoo Day - March 10, 2024 (Second Sunday in March)
• National Pack Your Lunch Day 
• National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 
• Orthodox Meatfare Sunday - March 10, 2024
• Salvation Army Day 
  
• U.S. Paper Money Day 

2024 Weekly Holidays that include March 10, are:

• Brain Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Week of March)
• Campfire USA Birthday Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week in March) (Founded March 17, 1910)
• Fairtrade Fortnight - February 26 - March 10, 2024 (14 Days Starting the Last Monday in February)
  
• Girl Scout Week - March 10-14, 2024 (Second Week of March - Week that always has March 12th in it)
• Jewish Book Week - March 2-10, 2024
  
• Lent - February 14 - March 26, 2024 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
  
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is March 31, 2024)
  
• MS Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Bubble Gum Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Catholic Sisters Week - March 8-14
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2024 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Older Workers Employment Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Third Week of March)
• National Science & Engineering Week - March 8-17, 2024 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in March)
  
• National Sleep Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Week begins with Daylight Savings Time)
• Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024
  
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week - March 10-15, 2024 (Starting the second Sunday in March for 6 days) 
• Ramadan - Evening of March 10, 2024 - Evening of April 8, 2024
• Sunshine Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Week of March 16th)
• Termite Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2024
• Universal Women's Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
• Women of Aviation Worldwide Week - March 4-10, 2024 (From Sunday before March 8, to Sunday after)
  
• World Glaucoma Week - March 10-16, 2024 (Second Full Week of March)
• World Orphan Week - March 4-11
• World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup - March 8-10, 2024 (Second Weekend in March in Sweetwater, TX)

2024 Monthly Holidays that include March 10, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our March Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of March.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo - February 27 - March 17, 2024 (Houston, TX)
• Iditarod Race - March 2-17, 2024 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
• North Dakota Winter Show - March 6-10, 2024 (Valley City, ND)
• Crufts (The World's Largest Dog Show) held in Birmingham, England - March 7-10, 2024
• Indiana Flower and Patio Show - March 9-17, 2024 (Indianapolis, IN)
• Academy Awards Ceremony - March 10, 2024

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 10 is Pisces.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for March are:

• The Jonquil, better known as Daffodil or Narcissus
• The meaning of the Daffodil is friendship and domestic happiness

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for March is the aquamarine and the bloodstone.

Famous Birthdays

• 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist (Walker Texas Ranger, Missing in Action)
• 1940 - Dean Torrence, American Singer (Jan & Dean)
• 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress (Basic Instinct, Casino)
• 1961 - Mitch Gaylord, CA, Gymnist (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem)
• 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
• 1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor (Mad Men)
• 1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter (American Idol)
  
• 1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress (House)
  

Famous Deaths

• 1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1927 - Ernest Hemingway divorces 1st wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
• 2000 - Country singer Vince Gill marries Christian/pop singer Amy Grant in Nashville, Tennessee
• 2009 - Ryan Adams marries singer/actress Mandy Moore in Savannah, Georgia

Above, is a video that Amy Grant and Vince Gill did together in 1994 before they got married, called House of Love. I've always thought that both of them had an amazing voice, so thought they were great together!  They got married to each other on March 10, 2000. The song played at the end of Michael Keaton/Geena Davis romantic comedy Speechless.

Quote of the Day

March 10th is International Day of Awesomeness

Chuck Norris was born on this day in 1940. He is known for his awesomeness!

"Because everyone needs an excuse to be awesome"

"No one's perfect, but everyone can be awesome"

The date was also chosen because it falls on Chuck Norris’s birthday — a man who is renowned for his awesomeness!

“Because everyone needs an excuse to be awesome.”

“No one’s perfect, but everyone can be awesome.”

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

March 10 is National Pack Your Lunch Day!

The Holidays and Observances Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day for March 10th is some Healthy Lunch Tips, from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits.  

This Day in History

• 1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii
• 1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call
  
• 1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
• 1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
• 1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians
• 1960 - USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
• 1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr
• 1977 – Astronomers discover rings around Uranus
• 2012 - At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
• 2019 - All 737 MAX aircraft are grounded worldwide, after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes
• 2023 - The FDIC takes over operations of Silicon Valley Bank after it collapses due to a run on its deposits

This Day in Music

• 1965 - The Beatles' Eight days A Week hits #1
  
• 1972 - America's self-titled debut album is certified gold
• 1973 - Pink Floyd's album, Dark Side Of The Moon is released
  
• 1979 - Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive hits #1
• 2003 - Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York City are: The Righteous Brothers, AC/DC, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Clash, The Police, and Floyd Cramer
• 2008 - Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are: Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five, Madonna, John Mellencamp and The Ventures

America, was one of my favorite groups through high school and college. Their album named AMERICA, was certified gold in 1972.  Above is the group singing their song, Sandman, off of that album, in 2004 at the Sydney, Australia Opera House. (See Holidays in Australia)

This Day in Sports

• 1913 - William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
• 1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
• 1990 - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
• 1990 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (Canada)

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!