Events in History
- Mar 2 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts
- Mar 2 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
Greek History
Mar 6 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
- Mar 8 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
- Mar 10 British Army captures Neuve Chapelle, Belgium
- Mar 11 The British declare a blockade of all German ports
- Mar 14 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal
- Mar 16 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles
- Mar 16 Federal Trade Commission organizes
- Mar 18 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
- Mar 18 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
- Mar 19 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
- Mar 23 Zion Mule Corp formed by the British Army
- Mar 25 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, killing 21
- Mar 25 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
Event of Interest
Mar 27 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
Birthdays in History
- Mar 5 Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- Mar 6 Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian Islamic religious leader (52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohrans), born in Surat, British India (d. 2014)
- Mar 7 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, French Prime Minister and President of the National Assembly, born in Paris, France (d. 2000)
- Mar 8 Vivien John, English painter and daughter of Augustus John, born in Dorset (d. 1994)
- Mar 10 Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978)
- Mar 11 J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
- Mar 11 Karl Krolow, German poet and translator, born in Hannover (d. 1999)
- Mar 12 Alberto Burri, Italian abstract painter, born in Città di Castello, Italy (d. 1995)
- Mar 14 Kenneth Rowntree, British artist, born in Scarborough, England (d. 1997)
- Mar 17 Hans Namuth, German-born photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala), born in Essen, Germany (d. 1990)
- Mar 17 Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
- Mar 18 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate), born in New York City (d. 1996)
- Mar 19 Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
- Mar 20 Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
- Mar 22 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), born in Wenatchee, Washington (d. 1994)
- Mar 23 Francis Berry, British poet and academic (Shakespearean scholar), born in Ipoh, Malaya (d. 2006)
- Mar 23 Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
- Mar 28 Selma Rubin, American environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 2012)
- Mar 31 Jack Perry, English businessman and the 1st Western business person to visit Communist China, born in London (d. 1996) [1]
- Mar 31 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
Deaths in History
- Mar 4 William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
- Mar 11 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
- Mar 13 Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
- Mar 17 Walter Crane, English painter, cartoonist and illustrator (The Lady of Shalott), dies at 69
- Mar 19 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 82
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)
Mar 21 American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, dies of influenza at 59
- Mar 24 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
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