Events in History
- Mar 2 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
- Mar 4 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
- Mar 4 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
- Mar 5 The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
- Mar 8 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
- Mar 9 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Mar 9 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
- Mar 13 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
- Mar 13 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
- Mar 19 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Mar 23 Sidney Kingsley's play "Detective Story" premieres in NYC
- Mar 24 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad
- Mar 25 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union
- Mar 29 Turkey recognizes Israel
- Mar 30 Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO
- Mar 31 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician and daughter of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Mar 3 Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
- Mar 3 James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
- Mar 3 Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
- Mar 5 Bernard Arnault, French businessman (LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), born in Roubaix, France
- Mar 5 Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
- Mar 7 Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, born in Bhalessa, Dominion of India
- Mar 7 Rex Hunt, Australian TV and radio personality and former Australian rules player, born in Mentone, Australia
- Mar 12 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
- Mar 14 Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author
- Mar 16 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
- Mar 21 Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Mar 23 Karen English, American politician (Rep-D-Arizona 1993-5), born in Berkeley, California
- Mar 23 Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
- Mar 24 Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan politician (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 2022-), born in Colombo, Ceylon
- Mar 26 Baroness Hayman [Helene Hayman], British politician (Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, 2006-11), born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands
- Mar 27 Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
- Mar 28 Michael W. Young, American geneticist noted for work studying circadian rhythms (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2017), born in Miami, Florida
- Mar 29 Keith Simpson, British politician and military historian, born in Norwich, Norfolk
- Mar 30 Liza Frulla, Canadian politician (National Assembly of Quebec, 1989-98; Member of Parliament, 2002-06), born in Montreal, Quebec
Deaths in History
- Mar 2 Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, dies at 70
- Mar 7 Francis Dodd, English artist (official war artist WWI), commits suicide at 74
- Mar 13 Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
- Mar 14 John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
- Mar 17 Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
- Mar 21 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor, publisher and muckracker (McClure's Magazine), dies at 92
- Mar 24 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, executed by firing squad at 54
- Mar 25 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
- Mar 30 Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel Prize 1931), dies at 64
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