Historical Events in March 1989

Mar 2 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial

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)

Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals

Mar 9 US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary

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
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 space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), 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 Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
Mar 19 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
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)

Mar 20 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation

Mar 20 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
Mar 21 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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

Mar 24 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" 1st seen on TV since 1973

Mar 24 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
Mar 25 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Mar 26 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

Mar 31 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle