After Pi Day is the much more ominous Ides of March, the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated. Literally just the middle of the month, the phrase is commonly associated with doom because of Shakespeare's use of it in his play, Julius Caesar. So far, however, today has been pretty good.
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Wouldn't that make the 16th the Ides? It is the very middle day in March. 15 before and 15 after, as March has 31 days.
The Ides were the days the Roman's used to count the calandar. Instead of saying "March 5", they would say it was 10 days before the Ides. It wasn't exactly the middle of the month, per se.
At least that is what I remember from my Latin class 21 years ago.
Also remember that the calendar has been screwed around with a lot since the ides was formed. For example, August originally had 30 days in it when Augustus Caesar named it after himself (I assume it was something like "Sextember", but he took a day from somewhere else (I can't remember where) to make it 31 so it was as long as July - the month named after Julius Caesar.
Mrs. X's birthday was on the Ides.