Events in History
- Mar 1 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
- Mar 1 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
- Mar 1 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
- Mar 15 1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Mar 15 First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 18 Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas: 294 die
- Mar 18 The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
- Mar 19 Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the term "supernova" and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic rays
- Mar 19 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
Battle of Interest
Mar 20 Franco offensive at Guadalajara, Spain
- Mar 21 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
- Mar 23 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
- Mar 24 Bus carrying a roller skater troupe to Cincinnati from St.Louis crashes into a bridge abutment in Salem, Illinois, killing 21 people
- Mar 24 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
- Mar 25 Italy & Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
- Mar 25 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
- Mar 26 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye
- Mar 26 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
Birthdays in History
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937-2021)
Mar 2 Algerian politician, President of Algeria (1999-2019), born in Oujda, Morocco
Valentina Tereshkova (86 years old)
Mar 6 Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6), born in Maslennikovo, Russia
- Mar 7 Don Bonker, American politician (Rep-D-WA, 1975-89), born in Denver, Colorado
Juvénal Habyarimana (1937-1994)
Mar 8 Rwandan General, Dictator and President of Rwanda (1973-94) who was assassinated at the start of the Rwandan genocide, born in Ruanda-Urundi, Belgian Colonial Empire
- Mar 8 Juvénal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
- Mar 8 Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
- Mar 9 Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec (2001-2003), born in Saint-Jacques, Quebec, Canada
- Mar 10 Oscar Abrams, Guyanese-born architect and community organizer (Keskidee Centre) (d. 1996)
- Mar 13 Fofó Iosefa Fiti Sunia, Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from American Samoa, born in Fagasá, Pago Pago
- Mar 15 Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (To Live and Remember), born in Atalanka, Soviet Union (d. 2015)
- Mar 16 Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist, born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (d. 1996)
- Mar 17 Frank Calabrese [Frankie Breeze], American mafia hitman, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012)
- Mar 19 Egon Krenz, former East German folitician and last communist leader of East Germany (1989), born in Kolberg, Nazi Germany
- Mar 20 Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor
- Mar 20 Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge
- Mar 23 Robert Gallo, American physician
- Mar 24 Erskine Sandiford, Premier of Barbados, 1987-94)
- Mar 25 Scot Palmer, Australian sports journalist (The Sun, Sunday Press, Seven Network; President Football Writers Association), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2022)
- Mar 25 Tom Monaghan, American founder of Dominos pizza, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Mar 27 Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter, born in Albany, New York
- Mar 29 Billy Carter, brother of US President Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia (d. 1988)
- Mar 29 Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister (1994-95), born in Saint-Marc, Haiti (d. 2012)
- Mar 30 Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth [Ian MacLaurin], British businessman and chairman (Vodafone), born in Blackheath, England
Deaths in History
- Mar 8 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet and literary historian (Motion), dies at 71
- Mar 9 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist, dies at 72
- Mar 10 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer and Soviet dissident (We), dies at 53
- Mar 11 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
- Mar 15 H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), dies at 46
- Mar 16 Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, (Foreign Secretary 1924-29, Nobel Peace Prize 1925 for anti-war Locano Pact), dies at 73
- Mar 18 Charles Haslewood Shannon, English lithographer and painter, dies at 73
- Mar 19 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58
- Mar 22 Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English aviator and ornithologist, dies at 71
- Mar 23 Helge Rode, Danish poet and critic, dies at 66
- Mar 25 John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
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