- Mar 1 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
- Mar 2 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
- Mar 2 "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
- Mar 2 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
- Mar 2 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest
- Mar 2 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
- Mar 2 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed
Event of Interest
Mar 2 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes a 70-goal scorer for the 2nd straight season and has 3 assists to help the Blues earn a 4-4 tie in Philadelphia; finishes season with NHL career-best 86 goals
Brett Hull
- Mar 3 "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
- Mar 3 David Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
Event of Interest
Mar 3 Iraqi generals and US general "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire
Norman Schwarzkopf
Rodney King Riots
Mar 3 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted
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- Mar 3 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
- Mar 3 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
- Mar 3 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
- Mar 3 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
- Mar 3 United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
- Mar 4 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
- Mar 4 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
- Mar 5 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
- Mar 5 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
Event of Interest
Mar 6 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
George H. W. Bush
- Mar 7 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
- Mar 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 8 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
- Mar 9 "Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
- Mar 9 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
- Mar 9 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
- Mar 9 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
- Mar 10 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
- Mar 10 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
- Mar 10 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
- Mar 10 Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
- Mar 10 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
- Mar 10 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
- Mar 10 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
Film and TV Awards
Mar 11 17th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Kirstie Alley win (TV)
Julia Roberts
Mel Gibson
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
Janet Jackson
- Mar 11 John Smith, US amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
Monica Seles
Steffi Graf
Music Awards
Mar 12 5th Soul Train Music Awards: Johnny Gill, Mariah Carey win
Mariah Carey
- Mar 12 OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
- Mar 13 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
- Mar 13 Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
- Mar 14 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
- Mar 14 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
- Mar 14 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
- Mar 14 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
- Mar 14 English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
Music Concert
Mar 14 The Dave Matthews Band perform their first show as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance
Dave Matthews
Event of Interest
Mar 15 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
Rodney King
Event of Interest
Mar 16 Seven members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
Reba McEntire
- Mar 16 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
- Mar 16 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
- Mar 16 NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
- Mar 16 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
- Mar 16 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown; fullback Simon Hodgkinson 4 penalties and a conversion
- Mar 17 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
- Mar 17 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade
- Mar 17 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC
- Mar 17 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
BAFTA Awards
Mar 17 44th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Goodfellas" Best Film, Martin Scorsese Best Director
Martin Scorsese
Event of Interest
Mar 18 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
Mike Tyson
Event of Interest
Mar 18 Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
Wilt Chamberlain
- Mar 18 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
- Mar 19 KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
- Mar 19 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
- Mar 19 St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
Super Bowl
Mar 19 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King Jr.
Event of Interest
Mar 20 Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
Michael Jackson
- Mar 20 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
- Mar 20 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
- Mar 21 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
- Mar 21 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
- Mar 21 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
- Mar 22 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
- Mar 22 NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
- Mar 22 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
- Mar 23 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
- Mar 23 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
- Mar 23 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
- Mar 24 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
- Mar 24 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
- Mar 24 Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait
- Mar 24 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
WrestleMania
Mar 24 WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
Hulk Hogan
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Ayrton Senna wins the Brazilian Grand Prix for the 1st time, at Interlagos, São Paulo
Ayrton Senna
Academy Awards
Mar 25 63rd Academy Awards: "Dances with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win
Kathy Bates
Jeremy Irons
Event of Interest
Mar 25 Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
Allan Border
- Mar 25 Nigerian crude becomes competitive in US Gulf Coast as Nigeria cuts crude prices
- Mar 26 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
- Mar 26 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
- Mar 26 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
- Mar 26 Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
- Mar 27 NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
- Mar 27 New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
Hall of Fame
Mar 27 Scotty Bowman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a "builder" of the game
Scotty Bowman
- Mar 28 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
- Mar 30 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
- Mar 30 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
- Mar 30 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
- Mar 30 Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
- Mar 30 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
- Mar 30 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
- Mar 31 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia, 70-67; first overtime win in the NCAA's 10-year history
- Mar 31 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
- Mar 31 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Arizona
- Mar 31 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
- Mar 31 Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in NYC
- Mar 31 Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
- Mar 31 St. Louis Blues' future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Brett Hull scores his 86th goal of the season in a 2-1 win over Minnesota North Stars; 3rd best total in NHL history
- Mar 31 The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
PGA Players Championship
Mar 31 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Steve Elkington birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
Steve Elkington
- Mar 31 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Amy Alcott breaks her own scoring record to win her 3rd DS by 8 strokes over Dottie Pepper; her 5th major title, and 29th & final LPGA Tour win