The Feast of St. Patrick is held on the day he supposedly died but more than 1500 years later, it's hard to know. The University of Puget Sound celebrates 135 years and it's Nat King Cole's birthday.

Otis Redding is the first recording artist to have a posthumous #1 hit. Blue Jay Vladimir Guerreo, Jr.'s celebrates his birthday.

March 15: Country blues legend Sam Lightnin' Hopkins is born and Seattle gets its first Shakespeare production

First celebrated in 2020, International Day of Math is held on March 14 to coincide with Pi Day. Musician, composer, bandleader, record producer and Garfield High School alum Quincy Jones was born in Chicago on this day in 1933.

March 13 is the day one of Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugboat Annie" stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The series inspired the early Hollywood film, Northwest scenery included. It is also the birthday of two top-shelf trumpet players— Blue Mitchell and Terence Blanchard.

March 10 is the day politician Clare Boothe Luce and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke were born in 1903. It's also the day a guy named William Knox rolled the first "perfect" game (scoring 300 with all strikes) in sanctioned bowling history.

March 9 is the day America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman were born. It's also the day Bertha Knight Landes was elected mayor of Seattle, becoming the first female mayor of a major U.S. city.

March 8 - In 1917, Russian women began the "Bread and Peace" strike which resulted in them gaining the right to vote, and a cascade of other political outcomes. Washington state passed an Un-American Activities Bill in 1947.

March 7 is the day in 1965 that Alabama State Troopers viciously drove back John Lewis and other civil rights marchers as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It's also the day, in 1883, that Seattle got its first telephone exchange.

March 6 is the day the opera "La Traviata" debuted in 1853. It's also the day The Millionair Club, a charity to help the homeless and unemployed, opened in Seattle’s Pioneer Square in 1921. Here's what happened on this day.