March 11

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on March 11, include:

• 311 Day 
• COVID-19 Global Pandemic Day 
  
• Debunking Day 
• Dream Day 
• Johnny Appleseed Day 
  
• Key Deer Awareness Day 
• National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day 
• National Immune System Day 
• National No-Code Day 
• National Promposal Day
  
• National Sofrito Day 
• National Worship of Tools Day
• Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day 
• Organize Your Home Office Day - March 11, 2025 (Second Tuesday in March)
• Wash Your Nose Day 
• World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film 
• World Plumbing Day 

2025 Weekly Holidays that include March 11, are:

• Brain Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2025 (Second Week of March)
• Campfire USA Birthday Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week in March) (Founded March 17, 1910)
• Consider Christianity Week - March 6-12, 2025 (Begins 2nd Sunday Before Easter)
• Endometriosis Awareness Week - March 4-19
• Fairtrade Fortnight - March 3-16, 2025
• Girl Scout Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Week of March - Week that always has March 12th in it)
• International Brain Awareness Week - March 10-16, 2025
• Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 5 - April 17, 2025 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 20, 2025)
  
• MS Awareness Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Bubble Gum Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Catholic Sisters Week - March 8-14
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2025 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
• National Older Workers Employment Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of March)
• National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Third Week of March)
• National  Science & Engineering Week - March 7-13, 2025 (Starts on Friday of the First Full Week in March)
• National Sleep Awareness Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Week begins with Daylight Savings Time)
• Nutrition and Hydration Week (United Kingdom) - March 10-16, 2025 (Third Full Week in March)
• Orthodox Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 3, 2025 - April 19, 2025 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 9-15, 2025
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week - March 9-13, 2025 (Starting the second Sunday in March for 6 days) 
• Ramadan - Evening of February 28, 2025 - Evening of March 30, 2025
• Termite Awareness Week - March 9-15, 2025
• Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign - March 11-17
• World Glaucoma Week - March 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of March)

2025 Monthly Holidays that include March 11, 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)

• Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - Usually starts annually on January 5, and typically runs for a month or more, in Harbin, China and is the largest ice and snow festival in the world! 2025 dates are December 25, 2024 - Late February / Early March, 2025, depending on weather conditions.
• Iditarod Race - March 1-16, 2025 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo -  March 4-23, 2025 (Houston, TX)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 11 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

• 1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 1992) 
• 1950 – Bobby McFerrin, American singer (Don't Worry, Be Happy!)
• 1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
• 1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter and actress (Liz and Lisa)
• 1971 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor and comedian (MTV series Jackass)
• 1983 – Melissa Rycroft, American cheerleader, reality TV star (The Bachelor, Dancing With the Stars)

Famous Deaths

• 1955 – Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American entrepreneur (The Oscar Mayer Company) (b. 1859)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

Quote of the Day

For National Procrastination Week, the definition of "Tomorrow" below, seems appropriate. 

Tomorrow (noun)
a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation, and achievement is stored

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

The Holidays and Observances Recipe of the Day for March 11, is a Healthy Granola Recipe from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits.

This Day in History

• 1702 – England's first national daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published for the first time
• 1779 - US Army Corps of Engineers is established
• 1824 – The Bureau of Indian Affairs is created by the United States Department of War
  
• 1861 – The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted
• 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no injuries.
• 1913 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. Canberra Day is one of the Holidays in Australia and also where we lived for four years while growing up!
  
• 1953 - 1st woman Army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
• 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union
• 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 81 miles east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami and killing thousands of people. Also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history.
• 2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies COVID-19 as a pandemic

This Day in Music

• 1967 - The Supremes' Love Is Here and Now You're Gone hits #1
• 1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st single (Arnold Layne)
• 1970 - The 5th Dimension win the Record of the Year Grammy for Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In
• 1987 - Huey Lewis & the News' Jacob's Ladder hits #1
• 1991 - Janet Jackson signs $40 Million, 3 album deal with Virgin records
• 1994 - The Supremes receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  
• 1997 - Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, becoming "Sir" Paul McCartney.

The song above, Jacob's Ladder by Huey Lewis & The News hit # 1 in 1987.  I've always loved them, and took my kids to an outdoor concert by them at the Hilton Hotel in Reno years ago when we lived in Truckee, California.  It was great, but it happened to coincide with the Harley Davidson Convention at the Hotel, so I think we were the only ones at the concert, not wearing Black Leather! They were all so nice!

This Day in Sports

• 1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
• 1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
• 1981 - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
• 1983 - Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
• 1983 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
• 1983 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• 1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule
• 1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
• 1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
• 1993 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning (Canada)

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!