Events in History
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Mar 1 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
- Mar 1 End of US commercial whale hunting
- Mar 1 Kreisky's Social Democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
- Mar 2 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
- Mar 2 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
- Mar 2 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic
- Mar 4 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost
- Mar 5 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
- Mar 5 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
- Mar 5 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
- Mar 5 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
- Mar 6 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
- Mar 7 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
- Mar 7 Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
- Mar 10 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection
- Mar 11 Iraqi Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
- Mar 12 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
- Mar 13 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
- Mar 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
- Mar 13 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
- Mar 15 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
- Mar 16 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University press co-publish The Old Testament of the New English Bible, and Complete New English Bible, incorporating the New Testament first published in 1961
- Mar 17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
- Mar 18 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, Prince Sihanuk flees
- Mar 18 Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland
- Mar 18 Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history
- Mar 19 W German chancellor & E German premier meet
- Mar 22 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
- Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 24 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
- Mar 25 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
- Mar 26 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
- Mar 26 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made San Francisco city landmark
- Mar 26 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
- Mar 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Mar 28 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz Turkey
- Mar 30 USSR wins its 8th straight Ice Hockey World Championship, in Stockholm, Sweden; 10th overall win
- Mar 31 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
- Mar 31 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
- Mar 31 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
Birthdays in History
- Mar 5 Paul Whelan, Canadian-American security officer and marine (imprisoned in Russia for spying), born in Ottawa, Ontario
- Mar 9 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW)
- Mar 11 Delia Gallagher, American journalist
- Mar 12 Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
- Mar 13 Michael Arrington, American founder of blog TechCrunch, born in Orange, California
- Mar 23 Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian sports executive (President of FIFA 2016-), born in Brig, Switzerland
- Mar 27 Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2001)
- Mar 28 Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
Deaths in History
- Mar 14 Fritz Perls, German-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (father of Gestalt therapy), dies at 76
- Mar 15 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian poet and author (Isslottet), dies at 72
- Mar 16 Arthur Adamov, Russian-French playwright (Paolo Paoli), dies at 61
- Mar 17 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
- Mar 21 Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49
- Mar 23 Del Lord, Canadian director (Three Stooges films), dies at 75
- Mar 26 Fritz Ascher, German Expressionist artist, dies at 76
- Mar 29 Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
- Mar 30 Heinrich Brüning, German politician and Chancellor of Germany (1930-32), dies at 84
- Mar 31 Semjon Timoshenko, Russian military officer (Marshal of the Soviet Union, held commands during Soviet-Finnish War and on WWII Eastern Front), dies at 75
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