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March 2 is Old Stuff Day. Take some time on this made-up holiday to appreciate the beauty of all things old and vintage.
Yahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian actor, voice actor, author and former soldier in the Canadian Army, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory.
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email.
The 5th of March in the USA stands for the national day of the multiple personality.
The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964.
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6[note 1] March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century.
Since 1984, the US Frozen Food Day has always fallen on 6 March. And this even officially from the state side. Here however less in the sense of a national Food Holiday, but as appreciation of the invention of the deep-freeze procedure, on which it is based.
Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1846 – December 8, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. Judson invented the zipper in the 1890s.
Hurray for cereals. The 7th of March is celebrated in the USA as the national day of breakfast cereals.
Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
Antoine César Becquerel (7 March 1788 – 18 January 1878) was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
Since 2003, the second Friday in March has been marked by peace and quiet and renunciation. This flexible date is celebrated in the USA as the nationwide National Day of Unplugging.
The George Wendt Show is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
Take a breath. Calm down. 9 March is celebrated in the USA as a national panic day.
Carlos Ray Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he competed as a martial artist, won many championships, and he has since founded his own school of fighting, Chun Kuk Do.
March 10 celebrates US Super Mario Day, one of the most popular computer game characters ever.
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
Thomas A. Anderson was born in Lower Downtown, Capital City, USA on March 11, 1962 (so, in the real world near 2162) according to his criminal record, or September 13, 1971 according to his passport (both seen in the film).
In 2010, the World Plumbing Council (WPC) declared March 11 to be World Pipeline Day. What at first sounds a bit weird, has on closer inspection a quite serious background.