Events in History
Scientific Discovery
Mar 2 Discovery of minor planet 5020 Asimov, named after sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov
- Mar 2 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 5 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS)
- Mar 5 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
- Mar 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Mar 6 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet's second term begins
- Mar 12 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- Mar 12 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
- Mar 15 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
- Mar 15 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
- Mar 19 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
- Mar 20 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
- Mar 20 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
- Mar 21 9-time World Grand Prix motor cycle champion Mike Hailwood along with his 9-year old daughter Michelle are killed when his Rover SD1 collides with a truck near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden in England
- Mar 22 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
- Mar 22 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
- Mar 22 US 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
- Mar 23 US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
- Mar 23 US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
- Mar 24 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
- Mar 26 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
- Mar 26 Soviet space mission Soyuz T-4 lands
- Mar 28 East German Christa Rothenburger skates ladies' world record 500 m (40.18 sec); she later breaks her own record twice
- Mar 28 France performs nuclear test
- Mar 28 Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
- Mar 28 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Jorge Rafael Videla resigns as President and dictator of Argentina, handing the reins to Roberto Viola
- Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Ronald Reagan is Shot
Mar 30 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, three others are also wounded
Birthdays in History
- Mar 27 Carey Davis, American National Football League fullback, born in St. Louis, Missouri
Weddings in History
- Mar 10 14th Prince of Ligne Michel Charles Eugène Marie Lamoral (29) weds Princess of Ligne Eleanora (27) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deaths in History
- Mar 6 Klaus Grabowski, German alleged murderer and convicted sex offender, shot and killed in Lübeck District Court by Marianne Bachmeier the mother of the daughter he was accused of murdering
- Mar 7 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
- Mar 9 Max Delbrück, German-American biologist and molecular geneticist (bacteriophage, Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 74
- Mar 22 James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
- Mar 26 Cyril Dean Darlington, English biologist and geneticist who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover and its role in inheritance and evolution, dies at 77
- Mar 27 Mao Dun [Shen Dehong], Chinese writer (Midnight), dies at 84
- Mar 29 Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (People's National Movement: 1962-81), dies at 79 [1]
- Mar 30 DeWitt Wallace, American publisher who founded Readers Digest, dies at 91
- Mar 31 Enid Bagnold, British novelist (Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit), dies at 91
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