March 8 is International Women’s Day.
March 11, 2026, marks 6 years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. In 2021, the government of Canada declared that the 11th day of March to be Pandemic Observance Day “to honour those who have died of COVID-19, to recognize those working on the front lines and to acknowledge COVID-19’s serious effects on the health of Canada’s population”.
What is the significance of the fact that February and March this year both contain a Friday the 13th? Absolutely nothing!
March 14, aka Pi Day, is celebrated as the International Day of Mathematics.
March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
March 21 is also the equinox (spring in the Northern Hemisphere).
March 22 is UNESCO’s World Water Day.
March 31 is National Indigenous Language Day.
50 years ago:
The CRAY-1 supercomputer was installed in Los Alamos, NM, USA, in March 1976. (Current models of smartphones are thousands to millions of times faster than the 55-ton CRAY-1 behemoth.)
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Vector illustration by macrovector, via Freepik.