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Today is the 4th day of the 12th week, the 21st day of the 3rd month, the 80th day of 2018, and:
- Afghanistan Day
- Gallo Wine Day
- Independence Day: Namibia from South African mandate in 1990
- International Colour Day
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- International Day of Forests and The Tree
- International Day of Nowruz
- Kick Butts Day
- Memory Day
- National California Strawberry Day
- National Common Courtesy Day
- National Countdown Day
- National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange
- National Flower Day
- National Fragrance Day
- National French Bread Day
- National Healthy Fats Day
- National Renewable Energy Day
- National Single Parents' Day
- National Teenager Day
- Poetry Day
- Twitter Day (Social Media Application)
- WE Day (Note: This has various dates based on city. Check their website.)
- World Down Syndrome Day -- It’s always on 3/21 because people with Down syndrome have a 3rd copy of the 21st chromosome.
- World Poetry Day
- World Puppetry Day
On this day in ...
630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. According to the 1955 Roman Catholic Marian Missal: St. Helen, the first Christian Empress, went to Jerusalem to search for the True Cross and found it September 14, 320. Currently the Greek Orthodox present a small True Cross relic shown in the so-called Greek Treasury at the foot of Golgotha, within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Syriac Orthodox also has small relic of True Cross in St Mark Monastery, Jerusalem
1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law -- the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope. A commission of four eminent jurists was appointed in 1800, including Louis-Joseph Faure and chaired by Cambacérès (now Second Consul), and sometimes by the First Consul, Napoleon himself. The Code was complete by 1801 but wasn't published for three years after intensive scrutiny by the Council of State
1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1965 – NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
1987 - The album "The Joshua Tree" by U2 was released.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2006 – The social media website Twitter launched with the first tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Quote of the day:
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today was an unexpected day off from work and school and just about everything as we hunkered down for a record snowfall. Fortunately for us the European model that predicted well over a foot of the white stuff turned out to be wrong – and since this all landed on us so late in March, it won’t be around very long -- but right now we pretty much feel like this
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