Events in History
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Adolf Hitler publicly announces the creation of a new air force, the Luftwaffe
- Mar 11 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
- Mar 12 Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
- Mar 13 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
- Mar 14 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
- Mar 16 Adolf Hitler orders German rearmament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
- Mar 17 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
Theater Premiere
Mar 21 Jean Anouilh's play "Y avait un prisonnier" premieres in Paris
Historic Invention
Mar 28 Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
- Mar 30 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
- Mar 3 Zhelyu Zhelev, Veselinovo, Shumen Province, Bulgarian President (1990-97)
- Mar 5 Philip K Chapman, Australian astronaut (Apollo 14 support), born in Melbourne, Victoria
- Mar 9 Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman (Qualcomm Inc.), born in Bergamo, Italy
- Mar 10 Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer
- Mar 10 Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990), born in Ribneta, Moldova (d. 2012)
- Mar 12 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
- Mar 13 David Nobbs, English comedic writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), born in Petts Wood, Kent (d. 2015)
- Mar 13 Michael Walzer, American political theorist, born in New York
- Mar 15 Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
- Mar 18 Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
- Mar 21 Hubert Fichte, German writer, born in Perleberg (d. 1986)
- Mar 24 Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer (Gruppe Olten), born in Bellach
Mahmoud Abbas (87 years old)
Mar 26 2nd President of the Palestine National Authority (2005-present), born in Safed, Mandatory Palestine
- Mar 27 Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer and novelist, born in San Pedro, Buenos Aires (d. 2017)
- Mar 27 Fr. Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest, martyr and missionary to Guatemala, born in Okarche, Oklahoma (d. 1981)
- Mar 27 Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk and 14th Earl of Berkshire
- Mar 31 Judith Rossner, American writer (August)
Deaths in History
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935)
Mar 6 US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), dies of pneumonia at 93
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