Historical Events
- Mar 1 Belgium ends military conscription
- Mar 1 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
- Mar 1 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
- Mar 1 Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
- Mar 1 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol resigns
- Mar 2 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
- Mar 2 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
- Mar 2 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
- Mar 2 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
- Mar 2 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
- Mar 4 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
- Mar 4 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
- Mar 4 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
- Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
- Mar 5 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
- Mar 5 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
- Mar 6 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
- Mar 6 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
- Mar 7 NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
- Mar 7 US dollar worth record 1.5330 Dutch guilders
- Mar 8 -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
- Mar 8 -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
- Mar 8 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
- Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Mar 9 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
- Mar 9 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
- Mar 10 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
- Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
- Mar 11 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
- Mar 11 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
- Mar 11 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
- Mar 12 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
- Mar 12 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
- Mar 12 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
- Mar 12 Congress party loses India national election
- Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
- Mar 12 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
- Mar 12 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
Cricket History
Mar 12 West Indies cricketer Brian Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
- Mar 12 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
Event of Interest
Mar 12 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
- Mar 13 Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
- Mar 13 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
- Mar 13 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
- Mar 14 1st time 13 people in space
- Mar 16 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
- Mar 16 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment of US Constitution [1]
- Mar 16 World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
- Mar 17 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
- Mar 17 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 17 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
- Mar 18 In a final round title decider, England beats Scotland, 24-12 at Twickenham to claim the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
- Mar 18 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
World Record
Mar 19 American Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
- Mar 19 Arizona begins using new telephone area code 520, outside of Phoenix
- Mar 19 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
- Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins NBA Chicago Bulls after 17 months trying a career in baseball; he scores 19 poimts in 103-96 loss to the Pacers in Indianapolis
- Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
- Mar 19 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
- Mar 19 Revival of Anton Chekov's stage drama "Uncle Vanya" closes at the Circle in the Square Theater, NYC, after 29 performances
- Mar 19 Revival of Brien Friel's stage drama "Translations", starring Brian Dennehy, opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
Baby It's You
Mar 20 Beatles release single, a cover of Shirelles song, "Baby It's You" (written by Burt Bacharach & Mack David), with late John Lennon as lead singer; 1st Fab Four single in nearly 10 years
- Mar 20 Dow-Jones hits record 4083.68
- Mar 20 Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000
Film & TV History
Mar 21 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
- Mar 21 NYC agrees to sell its 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
- Mar 22 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
- Mar 23 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
How to Succeed...
Mar 23 Revival of Frank Loesser's musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 548 performances
- Mar 26 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
- Mar 26 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
- Mar 26 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Color of Night" wins
- Mar 26 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
- Mar 26 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory
- Mar 26 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
Back for Good
Mar 27 "Back for Good" single released by British boy band Take That, reaches No. 1 in 31 countries
- Mar 28 Queensland beat South Australia in cricket to win the 1st ever Sheffield Shield
- Mar 28 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
- Mar 29 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
- Mar 30 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
- Mar 31 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
- Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
Davis Cup
Mar 31 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 10 Zach LaVine, American NBA player (Chicago Bulls), born in Renton, Washington
- Mar 13 Mikaela Shiffrin, American alpine skier (2x Olympic Golds), born in Vail, Colorado
- Mar 17 Claressa Shields, American professional boxer (only boxer to hold all four major world titles simultaneously in two weight classes), born in Flint, Michigan
- Mar 23 Jan Lisiecki, Canadian classical pianist, born in Calgary, Alberta
- Mar 27 Taylor Atelian, American actress (According to Jim), born in Santa Barbara, California
- Mar 30 Simone Ashley [Ashwini Pillai], English actress (Bridgerton), born in Camberley, England
- Mar 30 Tao Geoghegan Hart, British road cyclist (Giro d'Italia 2020), born in London, England
Famous Weddings
- Mar 18 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain
Famous Divorces
Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett
Mar 28 American actress Julia Roberts (26) and American singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett (37) divorce after less than 2 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 109
- Mar 1 César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish soccer forward (12 caps; Barcelona) and manager (Zaragoza, Barcelona), dies at 74
- Mar 1 Earl Blackwell, American society impresario (Celebrity Register), dies at 85
- Mar 1 Edmund Boyd Fisher, British publisher, dies at 56
- Mar 1 Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, murdered at 38
- Mar 2 Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
- Mar 2 Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
- Mar 3 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar (Professor of French) and Wartime resister, dies at 84
- Mar 3 Howard Hunter, US leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1994-95), dies at 87
- Mar 3 Howard Yanks, American founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
- Mar 3 Jean Marin, French broadcaster (one of the voices of free France WWII), dies at 86
- Mar 3 Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
- Mar 4 Eden Ahbez [George Aberle], American songwriter ("Nature Boy"; "Lonely Island), dies in a car accident at 86
- Mar 5 (Victor) "Vivian" Stanshall, British singer and comic songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - "I'm The Urban Spaceman"; Magical Mystery Tour), dies in a fire at his home, at 51
- Mar 5 Ed Flanders, American actor (St Elsewhere - "Dr. Westphal"), takes his own life at 60
- Mar 5 Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle racer (10 x GP wins) and touring car racer (Bathurst 1993), dies in a race accident at 42
- Mar 5 Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], British accountant (Coopers & Lybrand), dies at 85
- Mar 5 Marguerite Kelsey, English model for artsist (Haunting), dies at 86
- Mar 5 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
- Mar 6 Delroy Wilson, Jamaican ska and reggae singer ("Cool Operator"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 46
- Mar 6 Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
- Mar 6 Helene Virginie Weijel, Dutch author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
- Mar 7 Don Cook, American foreign correspondent (The New York Herald Tribune), dies at 74
- Mar 7 Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
- Mar 7 John Lambert, English composer, teacher and organist, dies at 69
- Mar 7 Paul-Emile Victor, French polar explorer, dies at 87
- Mar 8 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German heavy metal drummer (Helloween), commits suicide by jumping in front of a train at 29
- Mar 8 Ota Adler, Czech-British fur trader and founder (Jewish Aid Trust), dies at 83
- Mar 8 Paul Horgan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Mountain Standard Time), dies at 91
- Mar 9 Edward Bernays, Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, dies at 103
- Mar 9 Ian Ballantine, American publisher (Ballantine Books), dies of a heart attack at 79
- Mar 10 Alexander Hyatt King, English musicologist and Mozart scholar, dies at 84
- Mar 10 Carel Birnie, Dutch ballet producer, dies at 69
- Mar 10 Hendrik van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
- Mar 10 Richard Baerlein, British horse racing journalist (Evening Standard 1947-57, Observer 1963-95, Guardian 1968-95), and author, dies at 84
- Mar 11 Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
- Mar 11 Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
- Mar 11 Frank Fidler, English artist, dies at 84
- Mar 12 Juanin Clay, American actress (The Legend of the Lone Ranger), dies at 45
- Mar 13 Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan Shiite leader, shot to death
- Mar 13 John Silverlight, British journalist (The Observer), dies at 75
- Mar 13 Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
- Mar 13 Leon Day, American Baseball HOF pitcher (9 x NgL All Star; NgL World Series 1946; Brooklyn/Newark Eagles, Baltimore Elite Giants), dies of heart failure at 78
- Mar 13 Lorraine Macleod, American dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
- Mar 13 Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WWII), dies at 82
- Mar 13 P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Gerard Victory, Irish composer, dies at 73
- Mar 14 Jo van Marle, Dutch football official (Chairman of the KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
- Mar 14 William Fowler, American nuclear scientist and astrophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983), dies at 83
- Mar 15 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine President, dies at 26
- Mar 16 Albert Hackett, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (It's A Wonderrful Life; The Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 95
- Mar 16 Simon Fraser [Shimi], Lord Lovat, Scottish 25th head of Clan Fraser, dies at 83
- Mar 16 Sydney Simone, bandleader, dies at 80
- Mar 17 Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
- Mar 17 Donald Baverstock, British television Producer (Tonight), dies at 71
- Mar 17 Marcus Jan Adriani, Dutch biologist and director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
- Mar 17 Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
- Mar 17 Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
- Mar 17 Sunnyland Slim, American jazz, blues singer and pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
- Mar 18 Charles Drain, American soul singer, dies at 65
- Mar 18 Fred Ramsey, American jazz writer, dies at 80
- Mar 18 Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss opera composer (Romeound Julia; Raskolnikov; Das Flaschenteufel), dies at 84
- Mar 19 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
- Mar 19 Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
- Mar 19 Kenneth Loveless, British priest, concertina player, and folk dancer, dies at 83
- Mar 20 James Kilfedder, Northern Ireland unionist politician, dies at 66
- Mar 20 John Minton [Big John Studd], American pro wrestler (Royal Rumble 1989), dies from liver cancer and Hodgkin's disease at 47
- Mar 20 Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
- Mar 20 Sidney Kingsley, American playwright (Men in White - Pulitzer Prize 1934), dies at 88
- Mar 21 Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter, and sculptor (stained glass works), dies at 81
- Mar 21 Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
- Mar 21 Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
- Mar 21 Robert Urquhart, Scottish actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
- Mar 22 Peter Woods, British journalist and newsreader, dies at 64
- Mar 23 Alan Barton, English singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash at 41
- Mar 23 Danny Apolinar, American composer and songwriter, dies at 61
- Mar 23 Davie Cooper, Scottish soccer winger (22 caps; Clydebank, Rangers 376 games, Motherwell), dies of a subarachnoid haemorrhage at 39
- Mar 23 Irving Shulman, American author and screenwriter, dies at 81
- Mar 23 Ripley L. Ingram, American singer, dies at 65
- Mar 23 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
- Mar 23 Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author, dies at 74
- Mar 24 Joey Long, American blues and cajun guitarist, dies at 62
- Mar 24 Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
- Mar 25 James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
- Mar 25 James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
- Mar 25 Peter Herbert Penwarden, English priest, dies at 73
- Mar 25 Warren E. Burger, 15th Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86), dies at 87
- Mar 26 Eazy-E [Eric Lynn Wright], American rapper (N.W.A.), dies from AIDS-related illness at 30
- Mar 26 Vladimir Maksimov, Russian writer and dissident, dies at 64
- Mar 27 Albert Drach, Austrian-Jewish writer, dies at 92
- Mar 27 Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
- Mar 27 Chet Gierlach, American music publisher, jazz and popular song composer ((The Funniest Bird I've Heard of) The Kiwi (Kee Wee) Bird), dies at 75
- Mar 27 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
- Mar 28 Hugh O'Connor, American actor (In the Heat of the Night), shoots himself while battling cocaine addiction at 32
- Mar 28 Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
- Mar 28 Vivienne Byerley, English theater press agent, dies at 88
- Mar 28 William Hayter, British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1953-57), dies at 88
- Mar 29 Carl E Jefferson, American record company owner, dies at 74
- Mar 29 James Eric Storrar, British fighter pilot during WWII (Operation Mosquito), dies at 74
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