Events in History
- Mar 1 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
- Mar 3 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
- Mar 3 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
- Mar 4 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
- Mar 5 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
- Mar 5 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
- Mar 5 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
- Mar 6 British Labour government cuts military budget
- Mar 8 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
- Mar 9 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
- Mar 11 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
- Mar 11 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
Historic Event
Mar 17 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC
- Mar 17 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
- Mar 17 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
- Mar 20 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
- Mar 21 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
- Mar 21 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
- Mar 24 Greece becomes a republic
- Mar 25 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
- Mar 26 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
- Mar 27 Canada recognizes USSR
- Mar 27 New French government of Poincaré begins
- Mar 28 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
- Mar 29 Bavaria & Vatican reach accord
- Mar 31 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
- Mar 31 London public transport strike ends
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
- Mar 2 Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
- Mar 3 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995)
- Mar 6 William H. Webster, American judge, Director of the FBI (1978-87) and Director of the CIA (1987-91), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Mar 7 Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor (Hydra), born in Leith, Scotland (d. 2005)
- Mar 7 Kobo Abe, playwright (Woman, the Dunes), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Mar 8 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
- Mar 15 Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer (Silence), born in Orsk
- Mar 18 Dom Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic Cardinal, Mozambique's 1st black priest, born in Zavala, Mozambique (d. 2021) [1]
- Mar 20 Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)
- Mar 22 Al Neuharth, American newspaper founder (USA Today)
- Mar 22 Paul Fussell, American historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2012)
- Mar 23 Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
- Mar 23 Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (liquid paper), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1980)
- Mar 28 Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1969)
- Mar 28 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, born in Berlin (d. 1996)
- Mar 31 Leo Buscaglia, American psychologist known as "Dr Love" (Love), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
Weddings in History
- Mar 19 American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts less than 9 months.
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