Events in History
- Mar 1 Commonwealth Trade Union Council established
- Mar 1 Snow falls in Florida
- Mar 1 The US enacts the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act as part of a compromise between the Carter Administration and the Congress over the decontrol of crude oil prices
- Mar 3 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Mar 3 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned
Event of Interest
Mar 3 Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Election of Interest
Mar 4 Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) comes to power, winning the parliamentary election in Zimbabwe, making Mugabe Zimbabwe's first black prime minister
Robert Mugabe
- Mar 5 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
- Mar 6 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
- Mar 6 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
- Mar 6 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
- Mar 8 Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
- Mar 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 9 Flemish and Walloon battle in Belgium, 40 injured
- Mar 10 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
Murder of Interest
Mar 12 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
John Wayne Gacy
- Mar 13 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
- Mar 13 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
- Mar 13 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
- Mar 13 American John Wayne Gacy receives the death sentence in Illinois for the murder of 12 people
- Mar 14 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
- Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
- Mar 18 Vostok rocket explodes on the launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
- Mar 20 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate radio Caroline sinks
- Mar 20 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
- Mar 23 France performs nuclear test
- Mar 23 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
- Mar 23 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Old Dominion beat Tennessee 68-53 at Mount Pleasant
- Mar 27 Elevator in Vaal Reefs gold mine, South Africa plunges more than 1900m killing all 23 miners aboard
Mount St. Helens Erupts
Mar 27 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
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Event of Interest
Mar 31 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Jimmy Carter
- Mar 31 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Mar 29 77th Prime Minister of UK Tony Blair (26) weds barrister and lecturer Cherie Booth
Tony Blair
Deaths in History
- Mar 5 Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
- Mar 10 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
- Mar 14 Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
- Mar 16 Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
- Mar 18 Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
- Mar 21 Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
- Mar 23 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
- Mar 24 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest, murdered during mass at 62
- Mar 25 Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
- Mar 25 Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
- Mar 25 James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
- Mar 31 Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)