Events in History
- Mar 4 Primary school catches fire in Collingwood, Ohio (180 killed)
- Mar 5 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
- Mar 7 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
- Mar 8 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
- Mar 12 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
- Mar 23 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later
- Mar 25 Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Birthdays in History
- Mar 2 Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
- Mar 2 Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
- Mar 2 Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
- Mar 5 Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
- Mar 7 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
- Mar 12 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
- Mar 12 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
- Mar 13 Walter Annenberg, American publisher (Triangle-TV Guide) and philanthropist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2002)
- Mar 14 Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991)
- Mar 14 Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
- Mar 17 Boris Polevoy, Russian journalist and writer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1981) [OS=Mar 4]
- Mar 22 Albrecht Goes, German writer and theologian, born in Langenbeutingen (d. 2000)
- Mar 22 Louis D L'Amour, American best-selling author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett), born in Jamestown, North Dakota (d. 1988)
- Mar 22 Maurice Stans, American Secretary of Commerce (1969-72) and Watergate figure, born in Shakopee, Minnesota (d. 1998)
- Mar 23 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
- Mar 25 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director, born in London, England (d. 1985)
- Mar 26 Betty MacDonald [nee Bard], American humor writer (The Egg and I), in Boulder, Colorado (d. 1958)
- Mar 26 Kenneth Mellanby, English entomologist (scabies) (d. 1993)
- Mar 27 Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1982)
Deaths in History
- Mar 3 Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 77
- Mar 11 Benjamin Waugh, English social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, dies at 69
- Mar 12 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
- Mar 25 Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
- Mar 28 John Eliot, English meteorologist, dies at 68
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