Historical Events
- Mar 1 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
Event of Interest
Mar 1 Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery in an extortion plot
Charlie Chaplin
- Mar 2 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
- Mar 3 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
- Mar 4 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
- Mar 4 25th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 85-77
- Mar 5 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
- Mar 5 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
Event of Interest
Mar 6 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
Larry Flynt
Event of Interest
Mar 8 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
Douglas Adams
- Mar 9 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
- Mar 9 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
- Mar 9 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Pötzsch (East Germany)
- Mar 9 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
- Mar 10 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
Film Premier
Mar 10 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS
Bill Bixby
- Mar 11 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
- Mar 11 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
- Mar 12 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
- Mar 13 Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
- Mar 14 Marines terminate Moluccan action in Province house (1 dead)
- Mar 14 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
- Mar 15 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
- Mar 15 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
- Mar 15 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Mar 16 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
- Mar 16 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
- Mar 16 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
- Mar 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 17 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
- Mar 17 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
- Mar 17 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
- Mar 18 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California
- Mar 18 Former Pakistani premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
- Mar 19 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
- Mar 19 Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
- Mar 20 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
- Mar 21 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
- Mar 21 San Francisco passes its and the U.S.' most comprehensive homosexual rights bill
- Mar 22 France performs nuclear test
Event of Interest
Mar 22 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, San Francisco, dedicated
Robert Frost
- Mar 22 The Ruttle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV
- Mar 22 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 24 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
- Mar 25 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, UCLA beat Maryland 90-74 in Los Angeles
- Mar 27 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
- Mar 27 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
- Mar 27 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
- Mar 28 Daryl Gates becomes the 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
- Mar 30 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
- Mar 31 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
- Mar 31 Wings release "London Town" album
Famous Birthdays
Jensen Ackles
Mar 1 Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives, Supernatural), born in Dallas, Texas
Jensen Ackles
- Mar 1 Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
- Mar 1 Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress
- Mar 2 Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
- Mar 3 Douglas Osmond, vocalist (Osmond Boys), born in Provo, Utah
- Mar 3 Matt Diaz, American baseball player
- Mar 3 Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
- Mar 3 Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2009)
- Mar 4 Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
- Mar 4 Nate Ackerman, British-American logician and wrestler
- Mar 4 Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
- Mar 4 Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Mar 5 Kimberly McCullough, California, actress (Robin-General Hospital)
- Mar 5 Mike Hessman, American baseball player
- Mar 6 Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
- Mar 6 Lara Cox, Australian Actress
- Mar 8 Nick Zano, American actor
- Mar 9 Lucas Neill, Australian footballer, born in Sydney
- Mar 10 Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
- Mar 11 Didier Drogba, Ivorian football player (Chelsea, Phoenix Rising FC, Ivorian national team), born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Mar 11 Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
- Mar 11 Christopher Rice, American author (A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden), born in Berkeley, California
- Mar 12 Cristina Teuscher, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96), born in New Rochelle, New York
- Mar 12 Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics 1998)
- Mar 12 Casey Mears, American auto racer
- Mar 12 Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
- Mar 12 Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka
- Mar 12 Masuimi Max, American model
- Mar 13 Tom Danielson, American road racing cyclist, born in East Lyme, Connecticut
- Mar 13 Kenny Watson, American football player, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Mar 14 Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
- Mar 14 Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
- Mar 15 Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
- Mar 15 Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
- Mar 16 Brooke Burns, American actress
- Mar 17 Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and film director
- Mar 18 Dionne Bainbridge, Brisbane QLD Aust, NZ 200m swimmer (Olympics 1996)
- Mar 18 Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer
- Mar 18 Khalilah Adams, American actress
- Mar 18 Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
- Mar 21 Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d.2007)
- Mar 21 Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
- Mar 21 Cristian Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
- Mar 21 Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
- Mar 22 Tom Poti, professional hockey player
- Mar 23 Nicholle Tom, American actress (Beethoven, The Nanny), born in Hinsdale, Illinois,
- Mar 23 Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
Perez Hilton
Mar 23 Perez Hilton [Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr], American television personality and blogger, born in Miami, Florida
Perez Hilton
- Mar 24 Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
- Mar 26 Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player (Panathinaikos), born in Athens, Greece
- Mar 29 Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor
- Mar 30 Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player and coach, born in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Mar 31 Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
- Mar 31 Stephen Clemence, English footballer
- Mar 31 Tony Yayo, American rapper
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Mar 28 Actor Jeremy Irons (29) weds actress Sinéad Cusack (30)
Jeremy Irons
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
- Mar 7 Steve Bilko, American baseball player, dies at 49
- Mar 11 Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
- Mar 12 John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter), dies at 41
- Mar 12 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
- Mar 12 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skating champion (1914, 1920-24), dies at 84
- Mar 13 David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
- Mar 13 Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
- Mar 17 George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies
- Mar 18 Faith Baldwin, American author (They Who Love), dies at 84
- Mar 18 Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
- Mar 19 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
- Mar 22 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
- Mar 23 Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
- Mar 24 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
- Mar 25 Jack Hulbert, British actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
- Mar 27 Wilfred Pickles, British actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
- Mar 28 Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
- Mar 29 Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
- Mar 30 George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies
- Mar 30 Harold Gimblett, cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
- Mar 30 Larry Young [Khalid Yasin], American jazz musician (Unity), dies at 37 in unclear circumstances
- Mar 31 Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68
- Mar 31 Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin), dies at 79