March 4

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on March 4, include:

• Benjamin Harrison Day 
• Brain Injury Awareness Day 
• Courageous Follower Day 
• Fasnacht Day (Germany) 
• Fat Tuesday (Catholic) - March 4, 2025
• Global Day of the Engineer
• Holy Experiment Day 
  
• HPV Awareness Day
• Hug a GI Day 
  
• Ida Day - (People Named Ida)
• International GM's Day - (GM = Game Masters)
• International Scrapbooking Industry Day
• March Forth Do Something Day
• Marching Music Day 
• Mardi Gras Carnival (New Orleans) - March 4, 2025 (47 Days before Easter)
• National Backcountry Ski Day 
  
• National Dance the Waltz Day
• National Grammar Day 
• National Pancake Day (IHop) - March 4, 2025 (Same Day as Fat Tuesday)
• National Pound Cake Day 
• National Quinton Day - (People Named Quinton)
• National Ray Day - (People Named Ray)
• National Snack Day 
• National Sons Day 
• National Sportsmanship Day - March 4, 2025 (First Tuesday in March)
• Old Inauguration Day 
• Paczki Day - March 4, 2025 (Always Shrove Tuesday - 47 Days Before Easter)
• Peace Corps Day - March 4, 2025 (First Tuesday in March)
• Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras - March 4, 2025 (State Holiday in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana)
• Town Meeting Day Vermont - March 4, 2025 (First Tuesday of March)
• Toy Soldier Day 
  
• Unique Names Day - March 4, 2025 (Tuesday of First Full Week in March which is Celebrate Your Name Week)
• World Day of Fight Against Sexual Exploitation
• World Obesity Day 

2025 Weekly Holidays that include March 4, are:

• British Pie Week - March 3-9, 2025 (First Week of March)
• Celebrate Your Name Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week in March)
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Week of March)
• Dental Assistant Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• Endometriosis Awareness Week - March 4-19
• Fairtrade Fortnight - March 3-16, 2025
• Food Waste Action Week - March 3-9, 2025 (First Week of March)
• Hearing Awareness Week - March 1-7
• International Women's Week - March 1-8, 2025 (Week starting with the First Saturday of March to the International Women's Day on March 8th)
• Jewish Book Week - March 2-10, 2025 (Literary Festival in London)
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 20, 2025)
  
• National Aardvark Week - March 3-9, 2025 (Second Week of March)
• National Butchers Week - March 3-9, 2025
• National Cheerleading Week - March 3-9, 2025 (First Week in March)
• National Consumer Protection Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• National Dental Assistants Recognition Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week in March)
• National Ghostwriters Week - March 1-7
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2025 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Invest in Veterans Week - March 1-7
• National Pasty Week - February 27 - March 4, 2025 (Closest to St. Piran's Day on March 5th)
• National Pet Sitters Week - March 1-7
• National Procrastination Week - March 3-9, 2025 (Second Week of March)
• National PTA Drug & Alcohol Awareness Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• National School Breakfast Week - March 3-7, 2025 (Mon-Fri of the First Full Week in March)
• National Schools Social Work Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• National Words Matter Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week - March 1-7
• Newspaper in Education Week - March 3-7, 2025 (First Full School Week in March)
• No More Week - March 2-8, 2025 (The Week of International Women's Day)
• Orthodox Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 3, 2025 - April 19, 2025 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Professional Pet Sitters Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week in March)
• Ramadan - Evening of February 28, 2025 - Evening of March 30, 2025
• Read Across America Week - March 3-7, 2025 (M-F week of Dr. Seuss Birthday on March 2)
• Read an E-Book Week - March 2-8, 2025
• Return The Borrowed Books Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Week of March)
• Save Your Vision Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)
• Shrovetide - March 2-4, 2025 (Shove Tuesday plus two days before)
• Teen Tech Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week in March)
• Telecommuter Appreciation Week - March 2-8, 2025 (Week that includes Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday of 3/2)
• Universal Human Beings Week - March 1-7
• Universal Women's Week - March 2-8, 2025
• Vehicle Safety Recalls Week - March 4-10
• Will Eisner Week - March 1-7
• Women of Aviation Worldwide Week - March 3-9, 2025 (From Sunday before March 8, to Sunday after)
• Women in Construction Week - March 2-8, 2025
• World Orphan Week - March 2-8, 2025 (First Full Week of March)

2025 Monthly Holidays that include March 4, 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.
• Carnival of Venice - February 22 - March 4, 2025 - An annual festival held in Venice, Italy where people wear masks and costumes
• Carnival (Rio de Janeiro in Brazil) - February 28 - March 8, 2025 - Carnival is the biggest festival in the world with two million people a day on the streets. Floats, Parades, Balls, Music and Dancing are all part of the Event
• North Dakota Winter Show - March 1-7, 2025 (Valley City, ND)
• Iditarod Race - March 1-16, 2025 - A Dogsled Race on the Iditarod Trail  in Alaska (Starts on the First Saturday in March)
• Mardi Gras Carnival (New Orleans) - March 4, 2025
• Expo West (Anaheim, CA) - March 4-7, 2025
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo -  March 4-23, 2025 (Houston, TX)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for March 4 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

See our GARDEN HOLIDAYS page for all the special days celebrating things of the garden!

Birthstone

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

Famous Birthdays

• 1745 – Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779) (English version of name: Casimir Pulaski)
• 1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist (Miami Sound Machine)
• 1961 – Steven Weber, American actor (Wings)
  

Famous Deaths

• 1484 - Saint Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland dies at 25
• 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian (Uncle Buck) (b. 1950)
• 2019 - Luke Perry, American actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Riverdale) (b. 1966)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1952 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
• 1960 - Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz

Quote of the Day

March 4th, is Hug A GI Day - pictured is children in a Palestinian neighborhood in Baghdad hugging a U.S. Army soldier at the end of his deployment.

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

The Holidays and Observances Recipe of the Day for March 4, is a Vegetarian Cabbage Stir Fry from Kerry, of Health Diet Habits.

• See our FOOD HOLIDAYS page for all the special days celebrating food!
• See our Holiday Food page for tips on healthy holiday food traditions in general, and for some sample meal plan ideas for some of the most popular holidays.

This Day in History

• 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. (9 senators, 13 reps)
• 1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state
• 1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
• 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which deals with each state's sovereign immunity is passed by the U.S. Congress
• 1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
• 1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th US President
• 1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President
• 1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th US President
• 1845 - James K Polk inaugurated as 11th US President
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th US President
• 1863 - Territory of Idaho is established
• 1865 - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US President
• 1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th US President
• 1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th US President
• 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London
• 1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd US President
• 1893 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 24th US President 
• 1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th US President 
• 1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US President
• 1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
• 1909 - President Taft inaugurated at 27th US President
• 1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
• 1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President
• 1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
• 1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President
• 1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President
• 1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
• 1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
• 1974 – People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
• 1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS which is then used to screen blood donations

This Day in Music

• 1967 - The Rolling Stones' Ruby Tuesday hits #1
  
• 1972 -Badfinger's Day After Day is certified gold
• 1976 - Hall & Oates, Rich Girl is recorded
  
• 1978 - In the Top 5 songs on this day, Dan Hill's, Sometimes When We Touch at #3 is the only song not written by the Bee Gees

I loved Badfinger's Day After Day song that was certified Gold on this day in 1982!

This Day in Sports

• 1913 - New York Yankees are the 1st team to train outside the US in Bermuda
• 1967 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming of the US
• 1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1976 - San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!