OccasionWise

World Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to “give fresh recognition and [...]

Saint Joseph’s Day, commonly called the Feast of St. Joseph or in some churches, the Solemnity of Saint Joseph is marked in some Christian churches in honor of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary and foster-father of Jesus. Falling on March 19, it is a Solemnity in the Roman Catholic Church, a feast in the provinces [...]

Father’s Day is celebrated in Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal and Spain on this day.
Father’s Day is a secular celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father’s Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide [...]

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is traditionally held on 17 March.
15 March, 2008 (Church) / 17 March, 2008 (Public celebrations)
The date of the [...]

The 2008 Formula One season will be the 59th FIA and end on Formula One World Championship season. It will begin on 16 March in Melbourne, Australia until 2 November after eighteen Grands Prix.
It will be the first season under the new Concorde Agreement. As it stands, there are a total of seven teams [...]

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is traditionally held on 17 March.
15 March, 2008 (Church) / 17 March, 2008 (Public celebrations)
The date of the [...]

In the Roman calendar, the term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other 8 months.
In modern times, the Ides of March (the “middle of March”) is the 15th day of the Roman month of Martius. The date is famous [...]

Father’s Day is celebrated in Iran on this day.
Father’s Day is a secular celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father’s Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving to fathers [...]

We really wanted the next version of the Facebook application finished by now but we have ran into a few minor server limitations that will prevent a few features.
Even though our servers are connected to the internet via a high speed backbone, it appears that automatically generating individualised calendars based on filtering will be quite [...]

Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held on the second Monday in March, and marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London. The Queen delivers an address to the Commonwealth, [...]