Event of Interest
Mar 3 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
Winnie Mandela
- Mar 4 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
Music Premiere
Mar 5 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 8 Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali's 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, NYC; retains heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in "Fight of the Century"
Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali
- Mar 8 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
- Mar 8 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
- Mar 8 Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man killed; result of feud between two wings of the IRA developing since the split in 1970
- Mar 9 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
- Mar 9 Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response
- Mar 10 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
- Mar 10 Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
Jim Morrison
Election of Interest
Mar 12 Hafez al-Assad elected President of Syria
Hafez al-Assad
- Mar 12 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
- Mar 12 The Allman Brothers Band record their live album "Live at Fillmore East" on this date and the following day
- Mar 12 Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army
- Mar 13 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins her 10th Australian singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong 2-6, 7-6, 7-5
- Mar 13 18th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: South Carolina beats North Carolina, 52-51
TV Show Appearance
Mar 14 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
Barbra Streisand
- Mar 14 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
Event of Interest
Mar 14 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
Charlie Watts
Australian Tennis Open
Mar 14 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American defending champion Arthur Ashe 6-1, 7-5, 6-3; first man to win an Open era Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set
Ken Rosewall
Arthur Ashe
Grammy Awards
Mar 16 Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy Award
Muddy Waters
Meeting of Interest
Mar 16 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Edward Heath to disucss the security situation in Northern Ireland
Edward Heath
- Mar 17 Government of Trygve Bratteli takes office in Norway
- Mar 18 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
- Mar 19 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
- Mar 20 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
- Mar 20 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark resigns in protest at what he views as a limited security response by the British government
- Mar 21 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
- Mar 21 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
- Mar 21 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Mar 22 Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
Music Awards
Mar 22 6th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Lynn Anderson win
Merle Haggard
- Mar 23 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Mar 23 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
- Mar 24 Serge Gainsbourg releases his concept album "Histoire de Melody Nelson"
- Mar 25 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
- Mar 25 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
Event of Interest
Mar 25 James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland
James Callaghan
Event of Interest
Mar 26 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares its independence from Pakistan
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- Mar 27 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova, 68-62; UCLA's 5th consecutive title; Villanova later disqualified, ineligible player Howard Porter
- Mar 27 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) holds its first Annual Conference in the Ulster Hall in Belfast
- Mar 27 Wales clinches its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship, 6th Grand Slam and 12th Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at Stade Colombes, Paris
- Mar 28 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
- Mar 29 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
- Mar 29 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
- Mar 29 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
- Mar 29 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
- Mar 29 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 31 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
- Mar 31 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre