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spring is sprung?

Today is the 3rd day of the 12th week, the 20th day of the 3rd month, the 79th day of 2018, and: 
  • Alien Abduction Day (Started in 2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
  • Atheist Pride Day
  • Bed-in For Peace Day (Beatles - John and Yoko)
  • Bibliomania Day
  • Free Cone Day (Dairy Queen)
  • French Langrage Day
  • Great American Meatout Day -- launched in 1985 to protest a US Senate resolution proclaiming National Meat week
  • Independence Day:  Tunisia from France in 1956
  • International Astrology Day
  • International Day of Happiness
  • International Day of Nowruz
  • International Earth Day
  • National Agriculture Day
  • National Bock Beer Day
  • National Jump Out! Day
  • National Kiss Your Fiancé Day
  • National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
  • National Ravioli Day
  • Ostara
  • Proposal Day
  • Snowman Burning Day
  • The First Day of Spring
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
  • World Day of theater for Children and Young People
  • World Social Work Day
  • World Sparrow Day
  • World Storytelling Day
On this day ...

1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.

1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.

1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. 

1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.

1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair [Man in Motion World Tour] in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.

1999 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.

2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.

 

Hereabouts in the MidAtlantic states and the Northeast, March is definitely not feeling very much like spring today….   This winter storm has been named Toby by the weather channel .  Interestingly, a storm that has been named actually impacts your insurance coverage and may increase your deductibles so the trend for a new agency to name a storm should be examined, neh?    






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