Historical Events
- Mar 1 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
- Mar 3 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
- Mar 3 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
- Mar 4 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
- Mar 5 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
- Mar 5 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
- Mar 5 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
- Mar 6 British Labour government cuts military budget
- Mar 8 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
- Mar 9 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
- Mar 11 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
Historic Event
Mar 17 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC
- Mar 17 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
- Mar 17 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
- Mar 20 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
- Mar 21 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
- Mar 21 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
- Mar 24 Greece becomes a republic
Music Premiere
Mar 24 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm
- Mar 25 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
- Mar 25 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
- Mar 26 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
- Mar 27 Canada recognizes USSR
- Mar 27 New French government of Poincaré begins
- Mar 28 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
- Mar 28 83rd Grand National: Bob Trudgill wins aboard 25/1 shot Master Robert; last GN from a general riding start, now-familiar 'tape' introduced the following year.
- Mar 29 Bavaria & Vatican reach accord
- Mar 31 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
- Mar 31 London public transport strike ends
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
- Mar 2 Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
- Mar 2 Alexander "Papa" Lightfoot, American blues singer and harmonica player, born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1971)
- Mar 3 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995)
- Mar 3 Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (Sa Kabukiran), born in Cebu City, Philippine Islands (d. 1948)
- Mar 6 Sarah Caldwell, American conductor/opera director (Flagstaff), born in Maryville, Missouri (2006)
- Mar 6 William H. Webster, American judge, Director of the FBI (1978-87) and Director of the CIA (1987-91), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Mar 7 Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor (Hydra), born in Leith, Scotland (d. 2005)
- Mar 7 Kobo Abe, playwright (Woman, the Dunes), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Mar 8 Sean McClory, Irish actor (The Californians, My Chauffeur), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2003)
- Mar 8 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
- Mar 9 Konstantin Iliev, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1988)
- Mar 9 George Haines, American swimming coach (7 x US Olympic teams), born in Huntington, Indiana (d.2006)
- Mar 15 Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer (Silence), born in Orsk
- Mar 15 Lockrem Johnson, American composer, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1977)
- Mar 15 Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), born in Bonn, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (d. 1997)
- Mar 17 Stephen Dodgson, British composer, born in Chelsea, London, England (d. 2013)
- Mar 18 Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
- Mar 18 Dom Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic Cardinal, Mozambique's 1st black priest, born in Zavala, Mozambique (d. 2021) [1]
- Mar 19 Mary Wimbush, British actress (Oh! What a Lovely War, The Archers), born in Kenton, Middlesex, England (d. 2005)
- Mar 20 Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street), born in Staškov, Slovakia (d. 1998)
- Mar 20 Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)
- Mar 21 Philip Abbott, American character actor (The FBI; Sweet Bird of Youth), born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 1998)
- Mar 21 Karl Heinz Fussl, Austrian composer, musicologist, publisher, and music critic, born in Jablonec, Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
- Mar 21 Otis Spann, American blues pianist and singer (The Blues Never Die!), born in Belzoni, Mississippi [or, perhaps, 1930 in Jackson, Mississippi] (d. 1970)
- Mar 22 Al Neuharth, American newspaper founder (USA Today)
- Mar 22 Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (To Tell The Truth, 1972-77; Late Night With David Letterman; Late Show With David Letterman, 1993-95), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 22 Paul Fussell, American historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2012)
- Mar 23 Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
- Mar 23 Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (liquid paper), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1980)
- Mar 24 Lois Andrews [Lorraine Gourley], American actress (Dixie Dugan, Meet Me After the Show, The Desert Hawk), born in Huntington Park, California (d. 1968)
- Mar 24 Norman Fell, American actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1998)
- Mar 24 Eric Parkin, British classical pianist and champion of British composers, born in Stevenage, England (d. 2020)
- Mar 24 "Boogie" Bill Webb, American Louisiana blues and R&B guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Bad Dog"), born in Jackson, Mississippi (d. 1990)
- Mar 25 Julia Perry, American classical composer (Soul Symphony; Cask of Amontillado; Homunuclus C.F.), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1979)
- Mar 25 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu), born in Osaka, Japan
- Mar 27 Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer ("Broken Hearted Melody"), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1990)
- Mar 28 Frank Lovejoy, American actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1962)
- Mar 28 Frederick "Freddie" Bartholomew, British child actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Captains Courageous), born in London, England (d. 1992)
- Mar 28 Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1969)
- Mar 28 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, born in Berlin (d. 1996)
- Mar 29 Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer and songwriter, born in Deurne, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Mar 29 Andrew Frierson, pioneering African American opera singer, born in Columbia, Tennessee (d. 2018)
- Mar 30 Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (Archetypon), born in Slatina, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) (d. 2018)
- Mar 31 Leo Buscaglia, American psychologist known as "Dr Love" (Love), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
Famous Weddings
- Mar 19 American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts less than 9 months.
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of Leopold II, dies at 66
- Mar 6 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
- Mar 7 Pat Moran, American baseball player and manager (Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease at 48
- Mar 12 Hilaire de Chardonnet, French industrialist and inventor (rayon), dies at 84
- Mar 18 Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, dies at 79
- Mar 22 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, dies at 67
- Mar 25 John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
- Mar 26 Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), dies at 78
- Mar 27 Walter Parratt, British organist and composer, dies at 83
- Mar 29 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist, conductor, composer, and music teacher (Royal College of Music, 1882-1924), dies at 71
