Holy Experiment Day is an annual holiday celebrated on March 4 to encourage general tolerance toward religious practices different from ours. The importance of the story the holiday commemorates is also the precedence for the core beliefs the establishment of Pennsylvania, and ultimately, the United States was based on: religious tolerance, diversity, and representative government. William Penn Jr, son of English Admiral Sir William Penn, played an important role in the creation of the colony. He envisioned a colony full of people who embraced faith and were tolerant to the religion of others, influenced by his early experience in England where members of the Quakers sect were chastised for their beliefs.
Benjamin Harrison Day
Benjamin Harrison Day is an annual event that occurs on March 4 to commemorate the 23rd President of the United States. Did you know that Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of the ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, one of the Founding Fathers who signed the United States Declaration of Independence? A longtime protectionist, Harrison is infamous for his signing of the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 that pushed federal spending to one billion dollars for the first time during peacetime.
National Pound Cake Day
National Pound Cake Day is observed annually on March 4 to celebrate the long history of pound cakes and encourage everyone to put their baking hats on and make them for their loved ones. Pound cakes refer to the type of cake traditionally made with one pound each of four ingredients: butter, eggs, flour, and sugar. It typically makes a much larger cake than most families could consume. On National Pound Cake Day, cake lovers around the world are encouraged to celebrate, bake and eat pound cakes with the people they care about.