Events in History
- Mar 1 Library of Hawaii founded
- Mar 3 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
- Mar 3 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
- Mar 23 War of the Pacific fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapacá, leaving Bolivia a landlocked country.
- Mar 27 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
Birthdays in History
- Mar 4 Bernhard Kellermann, German writer (Der Tunnel), born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1951)
- Mar 5 Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- Mar 8 Mechtilde Lichnowsky, German writer, born in Pocking, Bavaria (d. 1958)
- Mar 8 Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist (Nobel 1944, radiothorium/actinium), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1968)
- Mar 11 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
Albert Einstein
Mar 14 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist famous for his theory of relativity and E = mc2 (1921 Nobel Prize for Physics), born in Ulm, German Empire (d. 1955)
- Mar 15 Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
Cluny MacPherson
Mar 18 Cluny MacPherson, Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask, born in St. John's, Newfoundland (d. 1966)
- Mar 20 Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
- Mar 26 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1965)
- Mar 27 Edward Steichen, American photographer (Family of Man), born in Luxembourg (d. 1973)
Authors
Civil Rights Activists
Inventors
Kings
Revolutionaries
Scientists