Events in History
- Mar 1 Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed
- Mar 1 A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
- Mar 3 Clarence Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
Hindenburg Disaster
Mar 4 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Treaty of Interest
Mar 7 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland
Adolf Hitler
Event of Interest
Mar 23 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
Joseph Gilbert Hamilton
- Mar 25 200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
- Mar 26 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
- Mar 26 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
- Mar 26 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
- Mar 27 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
- Mar 29 10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
- Mar 29 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
- Mar 1 Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
- Mar 1 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
- Mar 1 Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
- Mar 4 David Thompson, British food magnate/multi-millionaire
- Mar 5 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87), born in Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2003)
- Mar 6 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
- Mar 6 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
- Mar 7 Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
- Mar 10 Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989)
- Mar 11 Antonin Scalia, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016)
- Mar 12 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
- Mar 12 Patrick Procktor, painter
- Mar 15 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
- Mar 15 David Andrews, Irish politician
- Mar 17 Ken Mattingly, American naval officer, NASA astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 17 Robert Daniel, republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2012)
- Mar 18 Hans Peter Bleuel, German writer (Sex and Society In Nazi Germany), born in Stuttgart, Germany
- Mar 21 Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
- Mar 22 Philip Ely, president (British Law Society)
- Mar 22 Ron Carey, American labor leader (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
- Mar 24 David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
- Mar 28 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, poet, journalist, presidential candidate and Nobel Prize Laureate (Aunt Julia), born in Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
- Mar 28 Amancio Ortega, Spanish businessman and one of the wealthiest people in the world, (founder of the Inditex fashion group), born in Busdongo de Arbás, Spain
- Mar 29 Mogens Camre, Danish politician andMember of the European Parliament, born in Randers, Denmark (d. 2016)
- Mar 30 Mark Burns, British director (Juggernaut)
- Mar 30 Richard Baker, Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha)
- Mar 31 Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
Deaths in History
- Mar 2 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies at 59
David Beatty
Mar 12 David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of heart failure at 65
David Beatty
Eleftherios Venizelos
Mar 18 Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), dies of a stroke at 71
Eleftherios Venizelos