March 23 Holidays

A fun observance on March 23 celebrating the joy and companionship of kittens while promoting pet adoption from shelters and awareness of proper pet care.

Endangered in the Andes yet a beloved pet, the chinchilla gets a day for both halves of that story; nearly every US pet chinchilla descends from 11 animals imported in 1923.

A food observance on March 23 celebrating the popular snack combination of chips and dips, from potato chips with onion dip to tortilla chips with guacamole.

Counting all eight living bear species at once, the day finds only the brown and the American black rated Least Concern; the other six, panda included, are Vulnerable.

A fun observance on March 23 celebrating mathematics through the world's largest online math competition, promoting numeracy skills and international friendship via interactive gaming challenges.

Blasphemy laws sit on the books in 91 countries, covering 57% of the world's population. The day asks atheists to be visible, and only where it is safe to be.

Jacob turns up twice on the same government list: thirtieth under its own spelling, first as James, because Latin speakers split one Hebrew name in two and English kept both roads open. March 23 is the day for one of them.

A fan observance on March 23 celebrating Ravenclaw house values of intelligence, learning, wisdom, wit, creativity, and originality from the Harry Potter series.

A fun observance on March 23 celebrating the word OK, its history as a global expression of agreement and acceptance, and its origins in an 1839 journalistic joke in the Boston Morning Post.

A food observance on March 23 celebrating tamales, a traditional Mesoamerican dish made from corn masa dough filled with various ingredients, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed.

An awareness observance on March 23 commemorating the establishment of the WMO and promoting the role of meteorology, hydrology, and related sciences in protecting life through weather and climate services.

A heritage observance on March 23 commemorating the 1940 Lahore Resolution calling for Muslim self-determination and the 1956 constitution establishing Pakistan as an Islamic Republic.

A food observance on March 23 celebrating the nutritional benefits and superfood status of chia seeds.

Lewis Carroll gets the credit for Alice and was seven centuries late: the name had been current in England since the 1100s. The day it keeps on March 23 is, by a wide margin, the newest thing about it.

An awareness observance on March 23 highlighting the potential dangers of near-Earth asteroids, commemorating the 1989 close pass of asteroid 4581 Asclepius.

A food observance on March 23 celebrating thin, crispy Melba toast and its historical culinary origin at the Savoy Hotel in London.

A heritage observance on the Monday nearest March 23 commemorating the arrival of the first European settlers on the John Wickliffe on March 23, 1848, and the founding of the Otago settlement.