Events in History
- Mar 2 Moldova joins the United Nations.
- Mar 3 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 263 die
- Mar 3 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
Event of Interest
Mar 3 US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
- Mar 5 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
- Mar 6 Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
- Mar 6 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to take affect
- Mar 10 Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
- Mar 12 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
- Mar 13 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- Mar 13 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
- Mar 14 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
- Mar 15 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
- Mar 17 Islamic Jihad car bombing of Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 29 [1]
- Mar 17 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
Important Vote
Mar 17 South African President F. W. de Klerk wins a white only referendum
- Mar 17 South African referendum of white voters on an end to apartheid, over two-thirds vote for an end to the system
- Mar 18 American businesswoman Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes"
- Mar 18 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
- Mar 19 Britain's Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation
- Mar 20 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
A First Lady Goes Shoplifting
Mar 20 Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
- Mar 22 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
- Mar 24 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space with the 1st Belgium in space onboard, Dirk Frimout
- Mar 24 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
- Mar 25 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
- Mar 25 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
- Mar 25 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
- Mar 28 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
- Mar 28 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
- Mar 29 Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland, California won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
- Mar 30 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Mar 30 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
- Mar 31 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Mar 4 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
- Mar 4 Christian K. Nelson, American inventor of Eskimo Pie (now Edy's Pie)), dies at 98
- Mar 6 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer, and author (I Want Warm Meat), dies at 70
- Mar 6 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage), dies at 83
- Mar 9 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
- Mar 9 James Brooks, American mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
Menachem Begin (1913-1992)
Mar 9 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies of a heart attack at 85
- Mar 11 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
- Mar 12 Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (known for the comic strip Eric de Noorman), dies at 70
- Mar 12 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
- Mar 12 Salvatore "Salvo" Lima, Italian politician (Mayor of Palermo, 1958-63 & 65-66; Member of European Parliament, 1979-92) assassinated by the Mafia at 64
- Mar 13 Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
- Mar 14 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st person to be executed in Delaware in 45 years, dies at 34
- Mar 16 Wang Renzhong, Chinese politician (First Secretary Hubei Province), dies at 75
- Mar 16 Yves Rocard, French physicist (helped develop the atomic bomb for France), dies at 88
- Mar 17 George Lovi, American columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
- Mar 18 Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, Dutch writer & poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
- Mar 20 Lina Bo Bardi, Italian born Brazilian modernist architect (SESC Pompéia Factory), dies at 77
- Mar 23 Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-British economist (Road to Serfdom, 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics), dies at 92 [1]
- Mar 26 Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
- Mar 27 Easley Blackwood, Sr, American expert bridge player, and writer, dies at 89
- Mar 27 James E. Webb, American government official (Administrator of NASA, 1961-68, James Webb S[ace Telescope named after him), dies of a heart attack at 85
- Mar 27 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist, painter and graphic artist, dies at 68
- Mar 28 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
- Mar 29 John Spencer, Earl of Spencer, British peer and father of Diana, Princess of Wales, dies at 68
- Mar 30 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies at 75
- Mar 30 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, dies at 72
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