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Barbie Day:

(excerpted from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/3/9)

On this day in 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City.

Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945. After seeing her young daughter ignore her baby dolls to play make-believe with paper dolls of adult women, Handler realized there was an important niche in the market for a toy that allowed little girls to imagine the future.

Get Over It Day:

(excerpted from http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07067/767882-151.stm)

With the wreckage of Valentine’s Day long behind us and the prospect of spring and its traditional cleaning in the air, I draw your attention to tomorrow’s festivity: Get Over It Day.

This is a brilliant idea. There isn’t anyone on this planet who hasn’t got something they ought to get over, and I recognize that I am among the guilty. Regrets, grudges and grievances are like clutter for your soul. And I am the queen of clutter.

Joe Franklin Day:

(excerpted from http://www.answers.com/topic/joe-franklin-day)

Mar 9. A day to honor the king of radio, television and entertainment for all his contributions on the anniversary of his birth. Franklin appeared on late-night television in New York from 1950–93 and continues to entertain people today.

Organize Your Home Office Day:

(excerpted from http://www.answers.com/topic/organize-your-home-office-day)

Mar 9. One day each year for the more than 34 million home office households to find files, purge papers and tackle to-do lists. Annually, the second Tuesday in March.

Panic Day:

(excerpted from http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/panicday.htm)

Try to stay calm. Take a deep breath. For today is Panic Day. Can you handle today? Good, we were worried for a moment.

Hopefully, everything is going just swell in your life, and you have no need for this day. But, if problems and troubles are looming, try to hold off hitting the panic button until this day arrives.

Don’t worry. Don’t fret. and, above all, don’t panic. However, if ever there was a day to panic, today is that day.

Unique Names Day:

(excerpted from http://www.answers.com/topic/unique-names-day)

Mar 9. This is a day for all people to appreciate friends, acquaintances and loved ones who have unique names. This is an opportunity for those of us who can buy mass-produced name items to celebrate the beauty of unique names. Annually, the Tuesday of Celebrate Your Name Week.

Celebrity Birthdays:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gibson)

Charles “Charlie” Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor and journalist. He was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and 1999 to 2006 and anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009.

Gibson’s career spans from 1965 to 2009, with beginnings as the news director for Princeton University’s student-run radio station, a radio producer for RKO, and a reporter for local television stations. In 1975, he joined ABC News, where he worked as a general assignment reporter and correspondent from Washington, D.C. until becoming a host of Good Morning America in 1987. He held that position until 1998 but hosted the show again from 1999 to 2006. Gibson was the anchor for World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 until he retired in 2009.

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.

On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Kedr (Cedar; Russian: Кедр). During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune “The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows” (Russian: “Родина слышит, Родина знает”). The first two lines of the song are: “The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky”. This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 (opus 86), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.

Birthday Greetings:

Howard Froud’s Birthday

Happy Birthday Howie and We Miss You!!!

Daughters and Sons Day:

(excerpted from http://daughtersdaysonsday.org/index.html)

Mothers’ Day. Fathers’ Day. Valentines’ Day. Presidents’ Day, Moon landing Day, etc. etc. etc… Truly memorable.

And yet, the most important remembrances of our lives are overlooked. Our young – our children – our immortality.
It is a day of total affirmation of the eternal love, unchallengable esteem and thanks with which we hold and recognize the particular child. An unbreakable bond that exists between every child and parent.

A day to put aside the daily emotions and personal concerns existing in every household. That special day to revere each son, each daughter for the wealth of love and happiness their existence has brought. Daughters’ Day. Sons’ Day. Truly memorable. A day of pride.

National Be Heard Day:

(excerpted from http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/02/prweb348296.htm)

“National Be Heard Day” calls attention to the 145+ million people who are either employed by a small business or is an independent professional in the United States. They’re the owners of the local grocery store, the employees of the small advertising agency, piano teachers and plumbers, business analysts and bakers, attorneys and artisans. The day urges these professionals to find their voice, tell their story and be heard through marketing and publicity.

National Crown Roast of Pork Day:

(excerpted from http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/roastporkday.htm)

You certainly must be kidding, right!? National Crown Roast of Pork Day… Why you ask?

Well, frankly, we do not know. And, why not just Roast Pork Day? Why does it have to be a crown roast pork?

What we do know, is that it is National Crown Roast of Pork Day, a special day to cook and eat pork. To participate in this day it must be crown roast pork. Any other just will not do.

Teacher’s Day (Albania):

(excerpted from http://www.cardfountain.com/holiday_info/teachers-day.php)

Teacher’s Day is a national holiday in some countries.

In the United States, this is a non-official holiday on the first Tuesday in May.

The National Education Association (NEA) describes National Teacher Day as “a day for honoring teachers and recognizing the lasting contributions they make to our lives.”

In Albania, this is a non-official holiday on March 7, right before Mother’s Day, which is on March 8 (see also Public holidays in Albania).

(1876) Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone:

(excerpted from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/3/7)

On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.

While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse’s invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a “harmonic telegraph,” a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.

Celebrity Birthdays:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Swann)

Lynn Curtis Swann (born March 7, 1952) is an American former professional football player, sportscaster, and current politician. In 2006, he was the Republican nominee to run against the incumbent Ed Rendell for Pennsylvania Governor.

Swann retired after the 1982 season with four Super Bowl rings. He amassed 336 career receptions for 5,462 yards and 51 touchdowns, along with 72 rushing yards, a rushing touchdown, and 739 punt return yards and a touchdown. Swann was a pro bowl selection three times (1975, 1977, 1978) and was selected on the 1970s all-decade team.

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Sykes)

Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She is best-known for her role as Barb on The New Adventures of Old Christine and for her appearances on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America.

Birthday Greetings:

Rachel Toward’s Birthday

Happy birthday Rachel!!