Events in History
- Mar 1 New toll-free 888 area code introduced in USA
- Mar 1 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
- Mar 3 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
- Mar 7 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
- Mar 7 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
- Mar 7 The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament formed
- Mar 9 NASA space shuttle STS-75 (Columbia 19) lands
- Mar 10 NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani visits Israel
- Mar 11 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
- Mar 11 John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history, ending December 3, 2007.
- Mar 11 Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
- Mar 11 The EU Database Directive is passed
- Mar 12 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
- Mar 13 At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.
- Mar 13 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
- Mar 14 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
- Mar 18 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
- Mar 20 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
- Mar 20 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
- Mar 22 Cheryl Depew of Florida crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
- Mar 22 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
- Mar 23 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- Mar 24 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
- Mar 25 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
- Mar 25 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
- Mar 25 Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS)
- Mar 25 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of "mad cow disease" (BSE).
- Mar 25 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
- Mar 26 The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia
Event of Interest
Mar 30 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Greystoke Castle
- Mar 31 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
- Mar 31 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
Weddings in History
- Mar 24 Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in South Africa
Divorces in History
Winnie & Nelson Mandela
Mar 19 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela divorces Nelson Mandela after 38 years of marriage
Deaths in History
- Mar 1 Margaret McKay, British politician, dies at 85
- Mar 2 Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
- Mar 3 David Bowman, Scottish trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen), dies at 82
- Mar 3 John Joseph Krol, American clergyman (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1961-88), dies at 85
- Mar 3 Leo Malet, French crime novelist, dies at 86
- Mar 3 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, German journalist, dies at 76
- Mar 3 Marguerite Duras, French novelist and playwright (Sea Wall), dies at 81
- Mar 3 Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
- Mar 4 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
- Mar 4 Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley], American country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw), dies at 84
- Mar 5 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, dies at 26
- Mar 5 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
- Mar 5 Nicolás Cotoner, 23rd Marquess of Mondéjar, Spanish nobleman and military officer, dies at 90
- Mar 6 Stanley Booth-Clibborn, British Anglican Bishop of Manchester, dies at 71
- Mar 7 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, dies at 74
- Mar 8 Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
- Mar 8 Jack Churchill, British Army commando, dies at 89
- Mar 9 Elman Ali Ahmed, Somali peace campaigner, dies at 42
- Mar 9 Peter Mansfield, British political journalist and author, dies at 67
- Mar 10 Lucius E. Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
- Mar 11 Barry Appleby, British cartoonist (The Gambols), dies at 86
- Mar 11 Charles Oatley, English electrical engineer (developed scanning electron microscope), dies at 92
- Mar 11 John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
- Mar 12 Charles Bruce Perry, Professor of Medicine (Bristol University), dies at 92
- Mar 12 Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
- Mar 12 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67
- Mar 13 Lucy Faithfull, British children's campaigner, dies at 85
- Mar 15 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
- Mar 15 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, American lawyer and diplomat, dies at 89
- Mar 16 Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104
- Mar 16 Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76
- Mar 17 Bela Szigeti, Hungarian theoretical physicist, dies at 83
- Mar 17 Thomas Enders, American diplomat, dies at 64
- Mar 18 Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist, dies at 85
- Mar 18 Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel Prize 1979), dies at 84
- Mar 19 William Hutchinson Murray, Scottish mountaineer and author, dies at 83
- Mar 20 Claude Bourdet, French human rights activist and journalist, dies at 86
- Mar 20 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
- Mar 21 Frank Murray, Northern Ireland police officer and superintendent (RUC Special Branch), known as the "Bionic Man", dies at 51 [1]
- Mar 22 Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), dies at 81
- Mar 22 Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
- Mar 22 Ron Hayward, English politician, General Secretary of the Labour Party, dies at 78
- Mar 23 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, dies at 72
- Mar 26 Cissie Charlton, English football matriarch (mother of Bobby Carlton), dies at 83
- Mar 26 David Packard, American electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83
- Mar 26 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary of State (1980-81), dies at 81
- Mar 26 Tom Wakefield, British writer, dies at 60
- Mar 28 David Band, British banker (BZW), dies at 53
- Mar 28 Edith Fowke, Canadian folklorist, dies at 82
- Mar 28 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75
- Mar 28 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89
- Mar 28 Roscoe [Charles Barnet] Harvey, British soldier, dies at 95
- Mar 28 Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (Deputy Prime Minister 1986-87), dies at 81
- Mar 28 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
- Mar 29 Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
- Mar 30 Ryoei Saito, Japanese businessman (Daishowa Paper Manufacturing), dies at 79
- Mar 31 Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer and automobile designer (Fiat), dies at 91
- Mar 31 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, dies of AIDS at 51
- Mar 31 Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73
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