Events in History
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th US President
William McKinley
- Mar 5 American Negro Academy forms
- Mar 9 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
- Mar 11 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
- Mar 13 San Diego State University is founded.
- Mar 15 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
- Mar 20 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
Treaty of Interest
Mar 20 France signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
Menelik II
- Mar 29 Japan adopts Gold Standard
Birthdays in History
- Mar 5 Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
Soong Mei-ling
Mar 5 Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang Kai-shek], Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China (1948-75), born in Shanghai (d. 2003)
Soong Mei-ling
- Mar 13 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, born in Charleroi, Belgium (d. 1977)
- Mar 17 Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
- Mar 19 Liam O'Flaherty, Irish writer, born in Inishmore, Aran Islands (d. 1984)
- Mar 24 Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor
- Mar 24 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
- Mar 27 Douglas R. Hartree, English mathematician and physicist, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1958)
- Mar 27 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist, born in Grossenhain , Germany (d. 1943)
- Mar 28 Sepp Herberger, German football coach and manager (West German National Team), born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1977)
Deaths in History
- Mar 9 Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing, dies at 71
- Mar 11 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist, evangelist, dies at 45
- Mar 19 Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Apollon Maykov, Russian poet, dies at 76
- Mar 27 Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)