Celebrate the Day!

Celebrate holidays, birthdays of famous people, anniversaries, and other important historical events for calendar year 2007 and beyond. Use our perpetual calendar to find Federal Holidays, religious observances, or any other celebration for any year in the future.

What are Holidays?

Holidays, a contraction of holy and day, originally represented special religious days. Over the years, this word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend). In all of the English-speaking world, a holiday can be a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observance or activity. A holiday can also be a special day on which school and/or offices are closed, such as Labor Day. When translated from/to other languages, the meanings of the word "holiday" may be conflated with these of "observance" and "celebration".

Celebrate Sunday, March 14, 2010

Monthly Holidays & Celebrations:

This Week's Holidays & Celebrations:

Today's Holidays:

Historical Events:

Famous Birthdays:

1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann - Composer

1804 - Johann Strauss I - Composer

1854 - Paul Ehrlich - Doctor

1879 - Albert Einstein - Physicist

1907 - Edward Heyman - Songwriter

1913 - Lee Petty - Auto Racing

1920 - Hank Ketcham - Cartoonist

1923 - Diane Arbus - Photographer

1928 - Frank Borman - Astronaut

1932 - Carey Blyton - Composer

1933 - Michael Caine - Actor

1933 - Quincy Jones - Music Producer

1934 - Eugene Cernan - Astronaut

1945 - Jasper Carrott - Comic

1947 - Billy Crystal - Actor

1950 - Rick Dees - Radio Personality

1960 - Kirby Puckett - Baseball

1986 - Jamie Bell - Actor

Deaths of Famous People:

1471 - Thomas Malory - Author

1861 - Louis Niedermeyer - Composer

1883 - Karl Marx - Philosopher

1932 - George Eastman - Inventor

1973 - Howard Aiken - Engineer

1975 - Susan Hayward - Actor

1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer - Activist

1989 - Edward Abbey - Author

1989 - Stephen Bechtel - Business

1991 - Doc Pomus - Songwriter

1997 - Fred Zinnemann - Film Director

2007 - Gareth Hunt - Actor

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