March 1978 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Mar 6 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer shot by a militant white supremacist sniper in Georgia, leaving Flynt crippled and wheelchair bound

Mar 7 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
Mar 7 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb

Radio Premiere

Mar 8 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

Mar 9 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
Mar 9 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Pötzsch (East Germany)
Mar 9 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
Mar 10 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
Mar 11 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
Mar 11 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
Mar 13 Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
Mar 14 Marines terminate Moluccan action in Province house (1 dead)
Mar 15 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
Mar 15 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Mar 16 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast

Event of Interest

Mar 16 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed

Mar 16 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
Mar 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 16 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
Mar 17 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
Mar 17 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
Mar 18 Former Pakistani premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
Mar 19 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
Mar 21 San Francisco passes its and the U.S.' most comprehensive homosexual rights bill
Mar 22 France performs nuclear test
Mar 22 Karl "The Great" Wallenda, German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 73

Event of Interest

Mar 22 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, San Francisco, dedicated

Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 25 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, UCLA beat Maryland 90-74 in Los Angeles
Mar 27 The Rutles mockumentary "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
Mar 28 Daryl Gates becomes the 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
Mar 31 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite

Birthdays in History

Mar 11 Christopher Rice, American author (A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden), born in Berkeley, California
Mar 12 Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka (comic artist), born in Ichinomiya, Japan
Mar 14 Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
Mar 15 Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
Mar 21 Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d. 2007)
Mar 21 Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
Mar 24 Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer

Deaths in History

Mar 4 Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
Mar 18 Faith Baldwin, American author (They Who Love), dies at 84
Mar 19 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
Mar 19 [Madabhushi Ananthasayanam] M. A. Ayyangar, Indian politician (Speaker of Lok Sabha, Governor of Bihar), dies at 87
Mar 24 Leigh Brackett, American sci-fi author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
Mar 31 Charles Best, American-Canadian medical scientist and co-discoverer of insulin, dies at 79