March 8th - 14th

 
   

The world this week

 

 

 

Monday

March 8th

 

 

International Women's Day

 

 

200 National Celebrations

around the World

 

Wider World

of Sport

 

 

 

Revolution Day

Syria

 

 

Arm Wrestling

 

World Challenge 2010

Gothenburg, Sweden

 

Tuesday

March 9th

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Club Soccer

 

 

 

 

 

 Badminton

All England Open

one of the highlights of the international season

 until 14th

 

 

 

Champions League

1st knockout stage

2nd leg

today and tomorrow

Wednesday

March 10th

 

     

Birthdays

 

 

 

 

 

Terrorist

Osama  bin Laden

(1957)

 

Britain's

Prince Edward

(1964)

 

Actress

Sharon Stone

(1958)

 

 

 

Thursday

March 11th

 

200 National Celebrations

around the World

Philately

Birthdays

 

Club Soccer

 

 

Independence Restoration Day

 

Lithuania

 

The best of the Year's New Stamps

The US Post Office issue a set of Abstract Expressionists

Take a look!

 

 

Global media mogul

Rupert Murdoch

(1931)

 

 

 

 

Europa League

Round of 16, 1st  leg

 

 

 

Friday

March 12th

 

 

200 National Celebrations

around the World

Travel

100 Movies

to watch out for

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Commonwealth Day

celebrated with a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey.

Queen Elizabeth II delivers an address to the Commonwealth and as this is a Commonwealth Games year the  Queen's Baton Relay will start from Buckingham Palace.

 

 

 

About now US Universities and colleges will be closing for

Spring Break

with students traditionally heading south to  Florida or Mexico for a week of partying on the beach.

 

Green Zone

with Matt Damon  action from Iraqi

 

Back up Plan

with Jennifer Lopez

The tagline -

Fall in love. Get married. Have a baby. Not necessarily in that order - explains it all!

 

 

2010

Winter Paralympics

Opening ceremony

 

Track and field

13th World

Indoor Championships

Doha - Qatar

3 days

 

Cricket

Indian Premier League

starts with Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knights playing in Hyderbrad

 

Saturday

March 13th

 

Illumination Sport250

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Protests

Performing

Arts

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In a one off event Hadrian's Wall

will be illuminated from one end to another

 

Possible date for

Manny

Pacquiao

and 

Floyd Mayweather

 meeting in the biggest boxing match of the year.

 

 

Naked Bike rides

scheduled for the  Southern Hemisphere

 

 

Choir

Adelaide Festival Chorus

a combined choir from around Australia  perform the spectacular

 

 Mahler 8 - Symphony of a Thousand

50 world events to look out for

 

Alpine skiing

FIS World Cup Finals

Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany

Final meeting of the 2009-10 World Cup Season

 

Rugby Union

6 Nations 

action continues with 3 games over the weekend

Sunday

March 14th

 

 

 

 

 

Time

200 National Celebrations

around the World

Obscure

Celebrations

Elections

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Daylight

Saving

Time

 

ends at 2am in the USA

 

 

 Mothers

Day

in the UK

 

 

Pi Day

 

Pi Day takes place on March 14 ie 3/14 because  3, 1 and 4 are the first three digits of Pi. The first Pi Day   was organised by San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988 with the staff  consuming fruit pies.

 

 

Colombia

stage Senate and House of Representative elections

 

 

 

 

Motor racing

Bahrain Grand Prix

starts the 2010 Formula 1 season
 

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