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
- Mar 11 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
- Mar 11 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
Benito Mussolini
- 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
- 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 "Saint Joan" 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 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, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
- 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, British sculptor (Hydra)
- 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, composer
- Mar 18 Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
- 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, composer
- Mar 22 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
- Mar 22 Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 22 Paul Fussell, Pasadena, California, historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), (d. 2012)
- Mar 23 Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
- Mar 23 Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (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 25 Julia Perry, African-American composer (Cask of Amontillado), born in Lexington, Kentucky
- Mar 25 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu), born in Osaka, Japan
- Mar 27 Sarah Vaughan, jazz scat 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, composer
- Mar 31 Harry Cubitt, 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner
- Mar 31 Leo Buscaglia, "Dr Hug", psycholigist (Love), born in Los Angeles, California
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 Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
- Mar 6 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
- Mar 7 Pat Moran, manager (Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
- Mar 12 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
- Mar 18 Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, dies at 79
- Mar 19 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
- 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 Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
- Mar 27 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
- Mar 29 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71