- Mar 1 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
- Mar 1 Comet du Toit at perihelion
- Mar 1 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- Mar 2 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
- Mar 2 Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
- Mar 2 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
Event of Interest
Mar 2 NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
Darryl Strawberry
Keith Hernandez
- Mar 3 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
- Mar 3 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
- Mar 4 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
- Mar 4 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
- Mar 5 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
- Mar 5 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
- Mar 5 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
- Mar 6 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
- 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)
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals
Dino Ciccarelli
Event of Interest
Mar 9 US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
George H. W. Bush
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
- 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)
Event of Interest
Mar 22 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
Pete Rozelle
- 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
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" 1st seen on TV since 1973
Mary Martin
Election of Interest
Mar 26 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
Boris Yeltsin
- Mar 26 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
- 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 (NM)
- Mar 29 61st Academy Awards: "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win
- Mar 29 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
- Mar 29 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
- Mar 29 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
Event of Interest
Mar 31 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
Donald Trump