Historical Events
Event of Interest
Mar 2 Actress Claudette Colbert suffers a stroke at 89
Claudette Colbert
Event of Interest
Mar 4 Katharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion
Katharine Hepburn
Sports Awards
Mar 4 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win
Michael Jordan
Monica Seles
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
Larry Bird
- Mar 5 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
- Mar 5 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
- Mar 7 Diff'rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
- Mar 8 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
- Mar 8 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
Music Awards
Mar 9 7th Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige win
Michael Jackson
Mary J. Blige
- Mar 9 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Rodney King in Simi Valley court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
Rodney King
- Mar 11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
- Mar 12 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
- Mar 12 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
- Mar 12 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
- Mar 12 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
- Mar 13 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east USA
- Mar 14 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
- Mar 14 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
- Mar 14 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
- Mar 14 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
- Mar 14 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
- Mar 14 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
- Mar 14 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
- Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
- Mar 14 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
- Mar 14 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
- Mar 14 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
- Mar 15 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
Film and TV Awards
Mar 17 19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
- Mar 17 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
- Mar 18 "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 performances
- Mar 18 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
- Mar 18 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
- Mar 19 Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
- Mar 19 US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
- Mar 20 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
- Mar 20 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington, England
Event of Interest
Mar 21 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
John Paul II
- Mar 21 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
- Mar 22 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
- Mar 23 Belgian government of Jean-Luc Dehaene resigns
- Mar 23 NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
- Mar 24 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
- Mar 25 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
Appointment of Interest
Mar 27 Jiang Zemin appointed President of the People's Republic of China
Jiang Zemin
Film Awards
Mar 29 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
Emma Thompson
Al Pacino
- Mar 29 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
Film Awards
Mar 29 Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for work for AIDs causes at 65th Academy Awards
Elizabeth Taylor
- Mar 30 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
- Mar 30 French government of Balladur forms
- Mar 30 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
- Mar 30 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres in NYC
- Mar 30 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
- Mar 30 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown, born in Livingstone, New Jersey (d.2015)
- Mar 4 Jenna Boyd, American actress
- Mar 4 Alice Jones, British actress
- Mar 4 Abigail Mavity, American actress
- Mar 4 Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
- Mar 6 Ning Zetao, Chinese swimmer (2015 World Championships, 2014 Asian Games), born in Zhengzhou, China
- Mar 9 Suga [Min Yoon-gi], Korean rapper and songwriter (BTS), born in Daegu, South Korea
- Mar 15 Paul Pogba, French football player (Manchester United, French national team), born in Lagny-sur-Marne, France
- Mar 19 Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
- Mar 20 Sloane Stephens, American tennis player (US Open 2017), born in Plantation, Florida
- Mar 22 Mick Hazen, American actor
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Mar 18 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
Eddie Murphy
- Mar 20 Talk show host Morton Downey Jr (59) weds producer Lori Krebs (29) in Bellmore, New York
Wedding of Interest
Mar 31 Actor and writer Larry David (45) weds environmental activist Laurie Lennard (35)
Larry David
Famous Divorces
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
- Mar 1 Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
- Mar 2 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
- Mar 2 Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
- Mar 3 Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
- Mar 3 Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
- Mar 3 Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
- Mar 3 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
- Mar 4 Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
- Mar 4 Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
- Mar 4 Nicholas Ridley, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale, English politician, Minister of Finance, dies at 64
- Mar 5 Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80
- Mar 5 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
- Mar 6 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
- Mar 6 Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
- Mar 7 Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies
- Mar 7 Earl Wrightson, American actor and singer (Pinafore, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue), dies of heart failure at 77
- Mar 7 Tony Harris, South African cricketer (8 Tests for South Africa 1947-49, 100 runs) and rugby union player (Springbok), dies at 76
- Mar 8 Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
- Mar 8 Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
- Mar 8 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
- Mar 8 Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
- Mar 9 Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
- Mar 9 Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
- Mar 9 Max August Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn), dies at 86
- Mar 10 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
- Mar 10 David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
- Mar 11 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
- Mar 11 Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
- Mar 11 Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
- Mar 12 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
- Mar 12 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
- Mar 12 Michael Kanin, American director, writer and actor (Woman of the Year, Teacher's Pet), dies at 83
- Mar 12 Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
- Mar 13 Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
- Mar 15 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
- Mar 15 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
- Mar 15 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
- Mar 16 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
- Mar 16 Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
- Mar 16 Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
- Mar 16 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
- Mar 16 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
Helen Hayes
Mar 17 Helen Hayes, American actress (Airport, Caesar & Cleopatra), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
Helen Hayes
- Mar 17 Laadi Flici, Algerian MP, murdered
- Mar 17 Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
- Mar 19 Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
- Mar 19 Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
- Mar 20 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
- Mar 20 Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
- Mar 22 Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
- Mar 22 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
- Mar 22 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
- Mar 22 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 27
- Mar 22 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 31
- Mar 23 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
- Mar 24 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
- Mar 24 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
- Mar 24 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
- Mar 24 Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60
- Mar 26 Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
- Mar 26 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
- Mar 27 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
- Mar 27 Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
- Mar 27 Kate Reid, British actress (The Andromeda Strain, Heaven Help US), dies of cancer at 62
- Mar 27 Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
- Mar 27 Willem Russell [Wilhelmus Matthias Josephus Russell], Dutch politician (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
- Mar 28 Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
- Mar 30 Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20
- Mar 30 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70
- Mar 31 Brandon Lee, American actor (The Crow) and son of Bruce Lee, dies in an on-set firearms accident at 28
- Mar 31 Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
- Mar 31 Mitchell Parish, American lyricist, dies at 92
- Mar 31 Chichay [Amparo Robles Custodio], Filipino comedienne and actress (Bilangguang puso, Ngitngit ng pitong whistle bomb), dies at 75