Events in History
- Mar 1 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 members
- Mar 1 Rebellion in Egypt during visit of president Naguib to Khartoum, Sudan, 30 die
- Mar 1 US explodes Castle Bravo, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll - most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US
- Mar 4 James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
- Mar 4 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
- Mar 8 Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
Joseph McCarthy
- Mar 11 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
- Mar 13 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
- Mar 19 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Mar 19 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested in Alamogordo, NM
- Mar 19 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
- Mar 19 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
- Mar 19 Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete centuries in innings for the West Indies v England
- Mar 20 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
- Mar 22 Northland Center, the world's largest shopping mall of the time, opens in Oakpark, Michigan
- Mar 22 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens
- Mar 25 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
- Mar 26 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
- Mar 28 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
- Mar 31 USSR offers to join NATO
Birthdays in History
- Mar 2 Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF)
- Mar 4 Mark Chorvinsky, American author, editor and publisher of "Strange Magazine," born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)
- Mar 4 François Fillon, French politician and Prime Minister of France (2007-12), born in Le Mans, Sarthe, France
- Mar 9 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died, born in Newtownabbey, Northern Abbey (d. 1981)
- Mar 11 Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
- Mar 12 Anish Kapoor, Indian born British sculptor, born in Mumbai
- Mar 16 Colin Ireland, Kent, England, serial killer ('Gay Slayer'/ Coleherne killer), (d. 2012)
- Mar 18 James F Reilly II, Mt Home AFB Idaho, PhD/astronaut (STS 89, sk:100)
- Mar 19 Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai
- Mar 20 Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
- Mar 24 Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
- Mar 26 Piers Gardner, director (British Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
- Mar 28 Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
- Mar 29 Karen Ann Quinlan, American famous comatose patient (right to die case), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Deaths in History
- Mar 5 Julian Coolidge, American mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
- Mar 6 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
- Mar 7 Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- Mar 9 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
- Mar 9 V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer, dies at 79
- Mar 17 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
- Mar 28 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69