Events in History
Event of Interest
Mar 3 Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist
- Mar 5 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres
- Mar 8 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
- Mar 10 Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing
- Mar 10 Republic of China officially abolishes slavery
- Mar 14 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
- Mar 16 Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
- Mar 18 Frederick Converse's opera "The Pipe of Desire" is the first American opera to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
- Mar 24 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
- Mar 25 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
- Mar 26 US forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
- Mar 26 William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
- Mar 28 1st seaplane takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
- Mar 30 Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi
Birthdays in History
Archer John Porter Martin (1910-2002)
Mar 1 English chemist and Nobel laureate, born in London
Momofuku Ando (1910-2007)
Mar 5 Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles, born in Wu Baifu, Chiayi County, Taiwan
- Mar 8 Bernard Benjamin, British health statistician, actuary and demographer, born in London (d. 2002)
- Mar 9 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Survivor), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1970)
- Mar 11 Robert Havemann, German chemist and dissident, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982)
- Mar 12 Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
- Mar 15 An Rutgers van der Loeff, Dutch children's book writer (Skating Race), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1990)
- Mar 16 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page, Dressing Up), born in London, England (d. 1994)
Bayard Rustin (1910-1987)
Mar 17 American civil rights leader (March on Washington organizer, Social Democrats USA), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Mar 18 Chiang Ching-huo, Chinese politician (son of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, President of Taiwan 1978-88), born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, China (d. 1988)
- Mar 19 Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
- Mar 19 Sergei Anokhin, Soviet test pilot (world records for gliding flights, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1986)
- Mar 21 M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
- Mar 21 Nick Castle, American choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1968)
- Mar 22 Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (The Cruel Sea), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1979)
- Mar 27 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province (d. 1996)
- Mar 28 Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, born in Greenwich, Connecticut (d. 2001)
- Mar 28 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark, Wife of King Frederik IX, ruler of Denmark (1947-72), born in Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2000)
- Mar 30 Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician, born in Cimoszka, Poland (d. 1940)
Deaths in History
- Mar 4 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
- Mar 10 Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65
- Mar 20 Nadar [Félix Tournachon], French photographer and balloonist, took the first aerial photograph, dies at 89
- Mar 26 An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist and assassin of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, executed by Japanese authorities at 30
- Mar 26 Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
- Mar 27 Alexander Agassiz, American biologist and geologist, dies at 74
- Mar 28 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
- Mar 28 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
- Mar 29 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
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