Sports History
Mar 2 NY Mets stars Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry famously nearly come to blows in front of reporters and TV crews at spring training
- Mar 3 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
- Mar 3 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for pleading guilty to whitholding information from Congress in Iran-Contra illegal arms-for-hostages affair
- Mar 4 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
- Mar 4 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
Louvre Pyramid
Mar 4 The Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei is inaugurated by French President François Mitterrand in Paris
Historic Event
Mar 7 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"
- Mar 7 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
Sports History
Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals
Historic Event
Mar 9 US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
Film and TV Awards
Mar 12 15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
- Mar 12 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
- Mar 12 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
- Mar 12 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
- Mar 12 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
- Mar 12 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
Historic Event
Mar 12 Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submits his first proposal for an "information management system" to his boss at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who finds it “vague, but exciting”
- Mar 13 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
- Mar 13 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
- Mar 13 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
- Mar 15 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
- Mar 15 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
- Mar 15 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- Mar 17 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
- Mar 17 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
- Mar 18 27th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 8 (STS-29), returns to Earth
- Mar 18 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
- Mar 18 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game
- Mar 18 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops
- Mar 19 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- Mar 19 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Sports History
Mar 19 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
- Mar 19 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
PGA Players Championship
Mar 19 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
- Mar 19 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
Sports History
Mar 22 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
- Mar 22 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
- Mar 22 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- Mar 23 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
- Mar 23 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
Film & TV History
Mar 24 NBC rebroadcasts Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard's 1960 version of "Peter Pan" for the first time since 1973
- Mar 24 Exxon tanker Valdez spills 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound, near Tatitlek, Alaska
- Mar 25 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
- Mar 27 1st African American soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV
- Mar 27 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
- Mar 28 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court
- Mar 29 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
- Mar 29 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
- Mar 29 61st Academy Awards: "Rain Man" - Best Picture, Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Director (Barry Levinson) and Screenwriting; and Jodie Foster win
- Mar 29 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
- Mar 29 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
Historic Event
Mar 31 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
