March - National Women's History Month
Visit the National Women's History Museum online at www.nwhm.org . The latest exhibit is Women Wielding Power: Pioneering Female State Legislators.
March - Irish American Heritage Month
This month is a time to remember the many ways America is enriched by contributions from people of Irish heritage.
March 2 - April 18 - Orthodox Lent
During this period, members of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Orthodox churches fast and do penance prior to Easter Sunday (April 19 in the Orthodox calendar).
March 11 - Johnny Appleseed Day
The Nature Conservancy hopes to plant a billion trees in the Amazon to help replenish the rapidly diminishing rain forest.
March 16 - Publication of First Black Newspaper in America
In 1827, Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm debuted Freedom's Journal, the first African-American-owned and operated newspaper published in the United States.
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