March 1977 in History

Events in History

Mar 7 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter

Mar 8 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia
Mar 8 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
Mar 9 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
Mar 9 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
Mar 10 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
Mar 11 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.

Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party

Mar 12 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

Mar 15 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions

Mar 16 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland

Mar 18 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
Mar 18 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
Mar 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
Mar 20 Communists and socialists win French municipal elections

Mar 20 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

Mar 22 Dutch coalition government under Labour Party (PvdA) leader Joop den Uyl falls
Mar 22 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
Mar 26 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis
Mar 26 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain

Mar 2 Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, dies at 81
Mar 4 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
Mar 4 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
Mar 10 Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist and historian, dies at 74
Mar 10 Willem Schermerhorn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1945-46), dies at 82
Mar 11 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
Mar 13 Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison

Mar 14 American civil rights activist (Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), dies of breast cancer at 59 [1]

Mar 15 Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, political activist and editor, dies at 47
Mar 16 Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese politician and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party, assassinated by unknown gunmen at 59
Mar 18 Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
Mar 22 A.K. Gopalan, Indian Communist leader (b. 1904)
Mar 27 A. P. Hamann, American politician and city manager of San Jose, California, dies in the Tenerife airport disaster at 67