Historical Events in March 1977

Mar 2 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award

Mar 2 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson

Mar 2 Libya amends constitution
Mar 3 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
Mar 3 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
Mar 3 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
Mar 3 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
Mar 3 World Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
Mar 4 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
Mar 4 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
Mar 4 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541

Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

Mar 5 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69
Mar 7 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

Mar 7 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter

Mar 8 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia
Mar 8 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
Mar 9 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
Mar 9 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
Mar 10 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
Mar 10 CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
Mar 11 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.

Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party

Mar 12 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

Mar 13 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
Mar 15 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
Mar 15 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions

Mar 16 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland

Mar 17 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
Mar 18 The Clash release their first recording "White Riot"
Mar 18 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
Mar 18 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
Mar 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
Mar 20 Communists and socialists win French municipal elections
Mar 20 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

Mar 22 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
Mar 22 Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) government under Joop den Uyl falls
Mar 26 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
Mar 26 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
Mar 26 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis

Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain
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Mar 27 American tennis star Chris Evert wins her 4th and final WTA Tour Championship 2–6, 6–1, 6–1 against England's Sue Barker at Madison Square Garden, NYC
Mar 28 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats NC 67-59

Mar 28 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win