Historic Publication
Mar 1 Captain America created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is first published by Timely Comics (premiere issue released on December 20, 1940)
Historic Event
Mar 3 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Hermann Goering in Berlin
Historic Event
Mar 4 Serbian Prince Paul visits Adolf Hitler
- Mar 4 The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
- Mar 7 3rd largest snowfall then in NYC history (18.1")
- Mar 7 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece during WWII
- Mar 7 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Mar 8 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
- Mar 10 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
Sports History
Mar 11 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champ
- Mar 12 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
- Mar 13 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
- Mar 14 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
- Mar 14 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
- Mar 15 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 people
- Mar 16 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
Music History
Mar 16 Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
- Mar 22 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
Film & TV History
Mar 22 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II
Sports History
Mar 24 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox
- Mar 24 LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
- Mar 24 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in NYC
- Mar 25 Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, South Carolina, incorporated
- Mar 27 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
- Mar 27 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
- Mar 27 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
- Mar 28 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
Music Premiere
Mar 29 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony"
- Mar 29 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State, 39-34; Badgers' forward John Kotz is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Mar 29 WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
- Mar 30 German counter offensive in North Africa
- Mar 31 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco