Events in History
- Mar 1 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
- Mar 2 FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks
- Mar 3 National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
- Mar 4 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida); mission cancelled
- Mar 4 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by US Environment Protection Agency
- Mar 4 WWII veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
- Mar 5 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar
- Mar 6 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
- Mar 7 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
- Mar 10 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
- Mar 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
- Mar 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
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Mar 11 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
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Mar 13 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
- Mar 13 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
- Mar 14 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
- Mar 15 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
- Mar 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 16 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
- Mar 19 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
- Mar 19 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
- Mar 20 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
- Mar 21 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
- Mar 22 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10
- Mar 23 Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-D mission
- Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 24 5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards: "Bolero" wins
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Mar 25 Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General
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Mar 26 Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day
- Mar 28 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
- Mar 28 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
- Mar 29 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
- Mar 31 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
- Mar 31 El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte' Christian Democratic Party wins election
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Deaths in History
- Mar 3 Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
- Mar 6 Eric Sloane, American artist, dies at 80
- Mar 7 Robert W. Woodruff, American CEO (Coca-Cola) and philanthropist, dies at 95
- Mar 7 Victor W. Farris, American inventor (paper milk carton), dies at 75
- Mar 8 Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985)
Mar 10 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-85), dies of Emphysema at 73
- Mar 15 Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
- Mar 16 Jean Purdy, British embryologist and nurse (pioneer in developing IVF), dies from melanoma at 39
- Mar 23 Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist and writer, dies at 85
- Mar 23 Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), 1st African American woman cabinet member, dies of cancer at 60
- Mar 23 Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
- Mar 23 Richard Beeching, English physicist, engineer and chairman of British Railways (1961-64), dies at 71
- Mar 28 Marc Chagall [Moise Shagal], Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist (La Mariée; I and the Village), dies at 97
- Mar 29 Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States, dies at 73
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