Events in History
- Mar 1 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
- Mar 3 Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives)
- Mar 3 US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
Event of Interest
Mar 4 Vladimir Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Soviet bureaucracy)
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Mar 14 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
- Mar 15 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke
- Mar 16 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
- Mar 20 Bavarian minister of interior refuses to forbid Nazi Sturm Abteilung
- Mar 20 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
- Mar 21 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
- Mar 25 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
- Mar 30 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority formed at Howard U in 1920 incorporates
- Mar 31 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
- Mar 2 Robert H. Michel, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1957-95), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 2017)
- Mar 4 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer and writer (A-Z of Astronomy), (d. 2012)
- Mar 6 (Raymond) "Bill" Hoffenberg, South African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), born in Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa (d. 2007)
- Mar 8 Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles (NVP, 1973-77)
- Mar 9 André Courrèges, French fashion designer, born in Pau, French Basque country (d. 2016)
- Mar 9 James L. Buckley, American politician, Senator from New York (1971-77), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 9 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), born in Vienna (d. 2016)
- Mar 11 Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
- Mar 11 Alexander Xaver Gwerder, Swiss writer, born in Thalwil, Zurich (d. 1952)
- Mar 11 Morschi Mirando [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
- Mar 12 Walter "Wally" Schirra Jr, American US Navy Captain and NASA astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7), born in Hackensack, New Jersey (d. 2007)
- Mar 13 William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States, born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1989)
- Mar 14 Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar), born in NYC, New York (d. 1971) [1]
- Mar 19 Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian gynecologist, abortion rights advocate, and Holocaust survivor, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 2013)
- Mar 20 Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006)
- Mar 21 Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yoga
- Mar 22 Bryan Clieve Roberts, English lawyer and colonial administrator (instrumental in Malawi transition to independence), born in Southsea, England (d. 1996)
- Mar 23 Abderrahim Bouabid, Moroccan politician (Socialist Union of Popular Forces) and an opponent of French Imperialism and King Hassan II, born in Salé, Morocco (d. 1992)
- Mar 24 Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
- Mar 25 Lee Hale, American choral director (The Entertainers), born in Tacoma, Washington
- Mar 26 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius), (d. 2014)
- Mar 26 Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
- Mar 27 Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet (Good News of Death), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2012)
- Mar 27 Shūsaku Endō, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison, Silence), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1996)
- Mar 29 Julia Montgomery Walsh, American businesswoman and stockbroker, born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2003)
- Mar 30 Herbert Asmodi, German writer 9d.2007)
- Mar 30 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
Weddings in History
- Mar 23 Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba
Deaths in History
- Mar 1 Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, writer and politician, dies at 73
Johannes van der Waals (1837-1923)
Mar 8 Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States), dies at 85
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