March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).
Historical Events for March, 1942
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: Ten Empire of Japan named Japanese warplanes Attack on Broome named raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
Day of Week 8th » World War II: The Netherlands called Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java (island) or Java.
Day of Week 11th » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
Day of Week 14th » Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
Day of Week 16th » The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
Day of Week 17th » The Holocaust Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lemberg Ghetto Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec extermination camp Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
Day of Week 18th » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
Day of Week 20th » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the Battle of the Philippines (1942) named fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
Day of Week 23rd » World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
Day of Week 26th » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps e.g concentration camp in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany called German-occupied Poland.
Day of Week 28th » World War II: St Nazaire Raid: In occupied France, United Kingdom British naval forces successfully St Nazaire Raid raid the Germany German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
Day of Week 29th » The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
Day of Week 31st » World War II: Battle of Christmas Island called Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1942
1st » Jerry Fisher, American singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)