Historical Events
- Mar 1 Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
Murder of Interest
Mar 1 Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
Sports History
Mar 2 Indianapolis Colts sign quarterback Peyton Manning to a 7-year, $98 million deal with a $34.5 million signing bonus; largest package to date in the NFL
- Mar 2 Pittsburgh Penguins end their NHL record 14-game home losing streak when they tie the visiting New York Islanders, 3-3
- Mar 2 Rosetta space probe is launched by the European Space Agency to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with Philae lander module aboard
- Mar 2 Saint Joseph's Hawks finish their college basketball season with an 82-50 win over St. Bonaventure; Hawks undefeated with a perfect 27-0 record in A-10 East Conference
- Mar 2 Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
- Mar 2 War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500
- Mar 6 35th NAACP Image Awards: "The Fighting Temptations" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Mar 7 New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
- Mar 8 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council after the invasion and occupation by American-led forces
- Mar 11 Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190
- Mar 12 Music work "I La Galigo" by Richard Wilson debuts in Singapore, based on Bugis creation myth from South Sulawesi (world's most voluminous literary work)
- Mar 12 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea, is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
- Mar 13 25th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Pittsburgh, 61-58
Music History
Mar 13 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"
- Mar 14 45th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 89-73
- Mar 14 51st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats #5 Duke, 95-87
WrestleMania
Mar 14 WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 15 19th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Jackson Browne; The Dells; George Harrison; Prince; Bob Seger; Traffic; ZZ Top; and Jann Wenner
- Mar 15 Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed
- Mar 17 Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
- Mar 19 A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
- Mar 19 A truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
- Mar 19 Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 20 18th Soul Train Music Awards: R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, Outkast & Beyoncé win
Event of Interest
Mar 20 Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party's first leader.
- Mar 21 In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority
- Mar 22 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles
- Mar 23 Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India
- Mar 27 France beats England, 24-21 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; England earns the Triple Crown
- Mar 27 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- Mar 28 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Grace Park wins her only major title by 1 stroke, sinking a 6-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole; fellow South Korean Aree Song is runner-up
- Mar 28 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 23-year old Australian Adam Scott holds on for his 2nd PGA Tour title, 1 stroke ahead of Irishman Pádraig Harrington
- Mar 29 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members
- Mar 29 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants
- Mar 31 Australian swimmer Lisbeth Lenton breaks Inge de Bruijn's 4-year old 100m freestyle women's world record in 53.66s at the Australian Olympic trials in Sydney
- Mar 31 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed
- Mar 31 With a 12-1 defeat of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in Tokyo, NY Yankees starter Kevin Brown becomes only the 2nd pitcher in MLB history to have beaten all 30 teams
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 12 DannyLux, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (Jugaste Y Sufri), born in Palm Springs, California
- Mar 13 Coco Gauff, American tennis player (US Open 2023), born in Delray Beach, Florida
- Mar 21 Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg
- Mar 27 Amira Willighagen, Dutch classical cross-over soprano singer (Holland's Got Talent, 2013), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Famous Weddings
- Mar 3 University of Miami star defensive tackle & probable NFL draft pick Vince Wilfork (22) weds Bianca Farinas at Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Famous Divorces
Jennifer Garner & Scott Foley
Mar 30 "Alias" actress Jennifer Garner (30) divorces actor Scott Foley (30) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly 4 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Marge Schott, American MLB owner (Cincinnati Reds), dies of pneumonia at 75
- Mar 2 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), dies at 87
- Mar 3 Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
- Mar 4 Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- Mar 4 George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
- Mar 4 John McGeoch, Scottish rock guitarist (Magazine: Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Spellbound"; Visage; Public Image Ltd.), dies at 48
- Mar 4 Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
- Mar 5 Walter "Walt" Gorney, American character actor (Friday the 13th, Trading Places), dies from natural causes at 91
- Mar 6 Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
- Mar 6 Hercules [Raymond Fernandez], American professional wrestler, dies at 47
- Mar 7 Jack Holden, English athlete (International Cross Country C'ship gold, individual 1933, 34, 35, 39; Empire Games marathon gold 1950), dies at 96
- Mar 7 Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), dies at 64
- Mar 8 Abu Abbas [Muhammad Zaidan], Palestinian founder of the Palestine Liberation Front, dies in American custody of allegedly natural causes at 55
- Mar 8 Frank Mooney, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (13 Tests, 30 dismissals; Wellington), dies at 82
- Mar 8 Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
- Mar 9 Albert Mol, Dutch actor (Kant aan m'n broek!), dies at 87
- Mar 9 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, American pianist, arranger, jazz and classical composer (For Bird, With Love), dies at 72
- Mar 9 Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
- Mar 9 John Mayer, Indian composer (Indo-Jazz Fusion), dies in a car accident at 73 [1]
- Mar 9 Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
- Mar 10 Dave Blood [Schulthise], American rock bassist (The Dead Milkmen -"Punk Rock Girl"), dies from a drug overdose at 47
- Mar 12 Sylvi Saimo, Finnish kayaker (Olympic gold 1952, 1st female summer Olympic champion), dies at 89
- Mar 13 Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
- Mar 13 Vilayat Khan, Indian classical sitar player and composer, dies at 75
- Mar 14 Genevieve [Ginette Auger], French actress and singer (The Jack Paar Show), dies of a stroke at 83
- Mar 15 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), dies at 78
- Mar 15 William "Bill" Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist at NASA, dies at 93
- Mar 16 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor (BBC Concert Orchestra, 1956-66), opera director and educator (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1966-92), and composer, dies at 93
- Mar 17 J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
- Mar 17 Michael Mellinger, German actor (Goldfinger, The Bourne Identity), dies at 74
- Mar 18 (Huberdina) "Erna" Spoorenberg, Dutch soprano (Vienna State Opera, De Nederlandse Opera), and voice teacher, dies at 78
- Mar 18 Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods Limited), dies of kidney failure at 76
- Mar 19 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
- Mar 20 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-80), dies at 94
- Mar 20 Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician, dies at 86
- Mar 21 Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, artist, actress, choreographer and author (Sins of Rome), dies at 79
- Mar 22 Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
- Mar 23 Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
- Mar 24 Max Dendermonde [Hendrik Hazelhoff], Dutch literary, dies at 84
- Mar 26 Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean), dies after a stroke at 62
- Mar 26 Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
- Mar 27 Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer, dies from injuires sustained in a single vehicle accident at 19
- Mar 28 Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)
Mar 28 British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster (Death on the Nile: Logan's Run: Billy Budd), dies of heart failure at 82
- Mar 30 (Rosemary) "Timi" Yuro, American singer ("Hurt"), dies at 63
- Mar 30 Alistair Cooke, British-American TV host (Masterpiece Theatre), dies at 95
- Mar 30 Frances Schreuder, American socialite convicted of murder, dies at 65
- Mar 30 Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
Michael King (1945-2004)
Mar 30 New Zealand historian and author (Penguin History of New Zealand), dies in a car crash at 58
