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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students. View by day, by week, or by month.

  March, 2020  

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1 Music in Our Schools Month is in March.   March is National Women's History Month.	2 Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers	3	4	5 Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.	6 Author Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day.	7
8	9 The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.	10	11 Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.	12 On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York City libraries.	13	14
15 Beware the Ides of March!	16 The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.	17 Today is St. Patrick's Day.	18	19 On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time Act.	20	21 Today is World Poetry Day.
22 Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.   Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.	23	24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.	25 Celebrate Kate DiCamillo's birthday today.	26 Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.	27	28
29	30 Black Beauty author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.	31 César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.

Types of Calendar Activities

• Authors & Texts

  Birthdays, publication dates, and more

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• Historical Figures & Events

  Notable people and happenings in history

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• Holidays & School Celebrations

  Special days and how to observe them

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• Literacy-Related Events

  Celebrations that promote and encourage literacy

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