Events in History
- Mar 5 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut
Murder of Interest
Mar 8 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
- Mar 11 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- Mar 12 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- Mar 20 Legoland, California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California
- Mar 21 Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard and British aviator Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- Mar 23 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña
- Mar 24 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- Mar 24 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Murder of Interest
Mar 26 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man
- Mar 26 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
- Mar 29 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever
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Deaths in History
- Mar 3 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist (1971 Nobel Prize), dies at 94
- Mar 4 Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and jurist (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), dies at 90
- Mar 4 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
- Mar 6 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
- Mar 7 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, dies at 80
- Mar 8 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
- Mar 10 Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
- Mar 11 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), dies at 76
- Mar 11 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
- Mar 13 Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (The Phantom), dies at 87
- Mar 18 Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator, dies at 93
- Mar 19 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
- Mar 19 Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- Mar 20 Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
- Mar 20 Roy L. Johnson, American admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean, commanded Seventh Fleet 1960s), dies at 93
- Mar 21 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant, dies at 89
- Mar 23 Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
- Mar 24 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
- Mar 24 Henry Brandon [Lord Brandon of Oakbrook], British judge (Lord of appeal - Ordinary) and probable spy (Military Cross), dies at 78
- Mar 31 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (major role indeciphering Mayan script), dies at 77
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