Today In Holidays

Before you celebrate, this holiday is about dandelions and clover, not cannabis — though the confusion generates annual amusement

March 28

Every year a major theatre artist writes a message for World Theatre Day — the messages have come from playwrights, directors, and actors from around the world

March 27

Bangladesh fought a nine-month war of independence that killed an estimated 300,000 to 3 million people — one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarian catastrophes

March 26, 1971

Greece deliberately timed its revolution to start on a major Orthodox feast day — God and nation were the same cause

March 25

TB still kills 1.5 million people every year — it's the deadliest infectious disease on Earth, and most people in rich countries don't even think about it

March 24

The speech that inspired a revolution may not have been said exactly as we know it — nobody wrote it down for 41 years

March 23, 1775

One in three people on Earth doesn't have safe water to drink — this day exists because that fact is somehow still not urgent enough

March 22