Music Awards
Mar 2 9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra wins best record, "Michele" by The Beatles best song
Frank Sinatra
- Mar 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 3 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
- Mar 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 3 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
- Mar 4 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
- Mar 4 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
- Mar 4 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
- Mar 4 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
- Mar 5 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
Music Awards
Mar 6 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win
Merle Haggard
- Mar 6 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
Event of Interest
Mar 6 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
Muhammad Ali
- Mar 6 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
- Mar 6 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 7 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man" premieres in NYC
- Mar 7 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
- Mar 8 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
- Mar 9 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
Music Single
Mar 11 Pink Floyd releases 1st single "Arnold Layne"
Syd Barrett
Roger Waters
John F. Kennedy
- Mar 14 1967 NFL Draft: Bubba Smith from Michigan State first pick by Baltimore Colts
- Mar 15 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves to Brunssum
- Mar 15 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
- Mar 15 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
- Mar 16 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
- Mar 18 Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1
- Mar 18 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off Cornwall & spills oil
- Mar 19 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
- Mar 20 The Supremes release "The Happening"
- Mar 20 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 22 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
- Mar 24 University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
- Mar 25 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
- Mar 25 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
- Mar 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Mar 25 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
- Mar 26 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
- Mar 26 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
- Mar 28 "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
- Mar 28 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
- Mar 29 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 30 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed
Event of Interest
Mar 31 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
Jimi Hendrix