Events in History
- Mar 5 US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height
- Mar 7 The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending Italian rule
- Mar 8 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
- Mar 9 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
- Mar 10 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound - Herb H Hoover, Edwards Air Force Base, California
- Mar 11 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
- Mar 12 -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in month of March (record tied in 1984)
- Mar 14 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
- Mar 18 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
- Mar 19 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Mar 23 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m))
- Mar 27 The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea is convened
- Mar 31 US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
Birthdays in History
- Mar 2 Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
- Mar 3 Reed Hundt, FCC chairman
- Mar 4 James Ellroy, American crime writer (L.A. Confidential), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 4 Jean O'Leary, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. 2005)
- Mar 4 Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, New Zealand-born Australian wrongly convicted of killing her baby Azaria, born in Whakatāne, New Zealand
- Mar 5 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
- Mar 6 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
- Mar 9 Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Senator for Rome, born in Bra, Italy
- Mar 9 Jaime Lyn Bauer, American actress (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls), born in Phoenix, Arizona
- Mar 10 Ed Grundy, American rocker (Bloodrock)
- Mar 11 Roy Barnes, 80th Governor of Georgia
- Mar 12 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
- Mar 12 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of health and heritage, born in Dunoon, Scotland
- Mar 14 Tom Coburn, American politician (Senator-R-Oklahoma 2005-2015, Rep-R-Oklahoma 1995-2001), born in Casper, Wyoming (d. 2020)
- Mar 15 Kate Bornstein, American author
- Mar 15 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
- Mar 16 Margaret [Edith] Weis, American sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
- Mar 17 Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport, British-born investment banker
- Mar 17 Pat Lloyd, English rocker (The Equals), born in London, England
- Mar 17 Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
- Mar 17 William [Ford] Gibson, Canadian sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
- Mar 18 Jessica B. Harris, American culinary historian (High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America), born in Queens, New York
- Mar 18 Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
- Mar 20 Pamela Sargent, American sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives), born in Ithaca, New York
- Mar 25 Michael Stanley [Gee], American rocker (Michael Stanley Band - "My Town"), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2021)
- Mar 28 Gerry House, American radio personality (Gerry House and the House Foundation), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mar 30 Mervyn King, English economist, Governor of the Bank of England (2003-13), born in Chesham Bois
- Mar 30 Nigel Jones, British politician (LD), born in Cheltentham, England
Al Gore (74 years old)
Mar 31 American politician and environmentalist (Vice President: 1993-2001), born in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 31 David Eisenhower, author and grandson of President Eisenhower (married Julie Nixon), born in West Point, New York
Deaths in History
- Mar 6 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
- Mar 8 Emily Bissell, American welfare worker and founder of Christmas Seals, dies at 86
- Mar 10 Jan Masaryk, Czech statesman and Minister to London (1918-35), commits suicide or is murdered at 61
- Mar 10 Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
- Mar 13 Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the U.K., dies at 77
- Mar 24 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter, dies at 62
- Mar 26 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
- Mar 28 Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon, dies at 77
- Mar 29 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian 'Functionalist' architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), dies at 66
- Mar 31 Egon Kisch, Austrian-Czech writer and journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
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