1
St. Brigid's Day (Montserrat)

National Freedom Day (USA)

Seniors: Tax Aid (PLANO)

TX secedes from Union (1861)

2
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (US/Mexico)

Candlemas (Christianity)

Groundhog Day (USA)

Change your windshield wiper day (USA)

3
Imbolc (Celticism)

Setsubun (Shintoism)

MA issues 1st paper money (1690)

Patient Recognition Day (USA)

4
USO chartered (USA 1941)

"Across the Universe" Day (NASA)

World Cancer Day (Intern'l.)

Neighborhood Roundtable Meeting (PLANO)

5
Constitution Day (Mexico)

Unity Day (Burundi)

Chama Cha Mapinduzi Day (Tanzania)

6
Waitangi Day (New Zealand)

Saami Day (No. Europe)

Jack Kilby patents the integrated circuit (1959)

7
Black HIV/AIDS Day (USA)

Men's Day (Malta)

Independence Day (Grenada)

1st untethered spacewalk (1984)

8
Boy Scout Day (USA)

Nirvana Day (Buddhism)

Tu B'Shevat (begins sunset, Judaism)

College of Wm. & Mary est. (1693)

9
MCOR at City Hall (7 pm)

Walt Whitman corrects "O Captain" (1888)

Weather Bureau began (1870)

10
National Youth Day (Cameroon)

Emma Goldman arrested (USA, 1916)

Deep Blue beats Kasparov (1996)

Boris Pasternak born (1890)

11
National Youth Day (Cameroon)

Emma Goldman arrested (USA, 1916)

Kenkokukinen no Hi (Japan)

Inventor's Day (US)

12
Darwin Day (Intern'l.)

Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

Thomas Moran born (1837)

Red Hand Day (Intern'l)

Mahashivratri (Hinduism)

13
ASCAP created (USA, 1914)

Australian PM apologizes for Stolen Generation (2008)

Lupercalia (Anc. Rome)

Negro League formed (1920)

14
Valentine's Day

Wine grower's Day (Bulgaria)

ENIAC begins computing (1946)

Satellite orbits asteroid (2000)

Year of the Ox (Buddhism)

NEW MOON

15
PRESIDENTS' DAY (USA

Remember the Maine (1898)

Flag Day (Canada)

Lent begins (Christianity)

16

MARDI GRAS! (Christianity)

Tut's Tomb unsealed (1923)

Nylon patent (1937)

17
Random Acts of Kindness Day (USA)

US House of Representatives decides election (1801)

Independence Day (Kosovo)

Cabbage Day (US)
Ash Wednesday (Christianity)

18
Independence Day (Gambia, 1965)

Huckleberry Finn published (1885)

Pluto discoverred (1930)

19
Family Day (Canada)

Edison patents the phonograph (1878)

Nicolaus Copernicus (solar system orbits) born (1473)

20
MOMA opens (1872)

John Glenn orbits Earth (1962)

US Post Office created (1792)

21
International Mother Language Day (UN)

Nixon in China (1972)

Washington Monument dedicated (1885)

Polaroid Camera introduced (1947)

22
Washington's Birthday (1742)

World Thinking Day (Intern'l.)

Unity Day (Syria)

Shortest run on Broadway (1983)

Innoculations for Polio begin (1954)

Dolly cloning announced (1997)

National Day (Brunei)

RCC Jazz Band @ Senior Dance (PLANO Senior Center, $5)

24
Tech Career Fair (PLANO Centre)

Nat'l. Artist Day (Thailand)

Guantanamo Bay deeded to US (1903)

Giraffe Appreciation Day

25
Ash Wednesday (Christianity)

National Day (Kuwait)

Krushchev critizes (dead) Stalin (1956, beginning the end of USSR)

26
Liberation Day (Kuwait)

Intercalary Days begin (Bahá'i)

Saviours' Day (Nation of Islam)

Acadia NP est. (1919)

Eid Milad Un Nabi (Islam)

27
National Day (Dominican Republic)

Maslenitsa (Russia)

Allen Special Olympics (PLANO Centre)

28
Kalevala (Finland)

1^st Railway charter (B&O, 1827)

Purim (Judaism)

Double Helix discovered (1953)

FULL MOON

1
Women of Color Day (Intern'l.)

Beer Day (Iceland)

Holi (Hindu)

Martisor (Romania)

Natl. Pig Day (USA)

2
Texas Independence Day (USA)

Feast of 'Alá' (Bahá'i)

Mt. Rainier Nat'l. Park created (USA)

Ice-covered ocean discovered on Europa (1998)

3
Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day in Japan)

National Anthem est. (USA, 1931)

Fossett flies around world on 1 tank of gas (2005)

4
Town Meeting Day (Vermont)

Lincoln's 1st Inaugural (1861)

AAA begins (1902)

1st female in US Cabinet (1933)

5
Churchill coins "Iron Curtain" (1946)

Voyager 1 passes Jupiter (1979 but now the furthest manmade object from Earth)

6
Alamo Day (USA)

Dred Scott decision (USA 1857)

Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements (1869)

Aspirin trademarked (1899)

7
Peace Corps Day (USA)

Parodies declared legal (1994)

Selma march (1965)

8
Women's Day (Intern'l.)

Susan B. Anthony addresses Congress (1884)

NYSE opens (1817)

9
MCOR at City Hall; 7 pm

Baron Bliss Day (Belize)

Barbie debuts (1959)

Amistad rebels ruled illegally enslaved (1841)

10
Harriet Tubman Day (USA)

Bell calls Watson (1876)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuts (1997)

11
Johnny Appleseed Day (USA)

Youth Day (Zambia)

US War Dept. creates Bureau of Indian Affairs (1824)

12
Girl Scout Day (USA)

Andrew Carnegie endows libraries (1901)

1st Coca Cola bottle (1894)

Employee Day (USA)

13
Uncle Sam image created (USA, 1852)
Uranus discovered (1781)

Gold trades at $1000 (2008)

14
π Day (π=3.14)

Congress mandates Gold Standard (USA, 1900)

New Year (Sikhism)

1st Town Hall meeting (1743)

1st penicillin treatment (1942)

15
Pres. Johnson calls for Voting Rights Act (USA, 1965)

IDES OF MARCH

Day Against Police Brutality (Intern'l)

NEW MOON

16
Bacchanalia (Anc. Rome)

Freedom of Information Day (USA)

Vaisaki (Hinduism)

Corps of Engineers founded (1802)

17
St. Patrick's Day (Christianity)

Campfire Girls and Boys Day (USA)

Natl Gallery of Art opens (1941)

Plano Farmstead Museum Tour

18
1st Space Walk (USSR, 1965)

Mother's Day (Nigeria)

Gold Standard repealed (1968)

AMEX founded by Wells/Fargo (1850)

19
Swallows return (San Juan Capistrano)

Start of ENRON-induced blackouts in CA (2001)

Most distant gamma ray burst observed (2008)

20
1st Woman wins Iditarod (Alaska, 1985)

Storytelling Day (Intern'l)

Frog Day (Intern'l)

VERNAL EQUINOX

21
Zoroastrian, Iranian, and Bahá'i New Year

Poetry Day (UNESCO)

Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day (Intern'l.)

Human Rights Day (So. Africa)

22
World Water Day (UN)

Lumiére Bros. show 1st movie (1895)

Prohibition ends (1933)

23
World Meteorological Day (Intern'l.)

"Give me liberty or give me death" (Patrick Henry 1775)

24
Exxon Valdez oil spill (Alaska 1989)

Rama Navami (Hinduism)

Tuberculosis Day (Intern'l)

25
Maryland Day (USA)

Annunciation (Christianity)

Lady Day (British Isles)

$100 bill redesign (1996)

26
Camp David Peace Accord (1979)

Prince Kuhio Day (Hawai'i)

Book of Mormon published (1830)

27
U.S. Navy created (1794)

Viagra gets FDA approval (1998)

Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox)

Plano Egg Hunt

28
Teacher's Day (Slovakia)

3-mile Island (1979)

Palm Sunday (Christianity)

Serfs Emancipation Day (China)

29
Youth Day (Taiwan)

The Dow breaks 10,000 (1999)

Mahavir Jayanti (Jainism)

30
Seward's Folly (1867)

Doctors' Day (USA)

Magha Puja Day (Buddhist)

FULL MOON

31
César Chávez Day (California)

Pohnpei Day (Micronesia)

Transfer Day (Virgin Is.)