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
Treaty of Interest
Mar 7 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland
Historic Event
Mar 23 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
- Mar 25 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
- 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 14 Bruce Hood, Canadian National Hockey League referee (1965-84), and author (Calling The Shots), born in Campbellville, Ontario (d. 2018)
- Mar 15 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
- Mar 15 David Andrews, Irish politician
- Mar 17 Ken Mattingly, American USN naval officer, and NASA astronaut (Apollo 16; STS-4, -51-C), 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 Ron Carey, American labor leader (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
- Mar 24 David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mar 28 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, poet, journalist, presidential candidate and Nobel Prize Laureate (Aunt Julia), born in 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 (Folketing (Danish Parliament), 1968-1987, 3 days in 2007; European Parliament, 1999-2009), 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
Eleftherios Venizelos
Mar 18 Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), dies of a stroke at 71
