Events in History
- Mar 5 -8th Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq
- Mar 6 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
- Mar 6 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
- Mar 7 54 people are killed & 143 are wounded by 5 Boko Haram suicide bombings in Maiduguri city, Nigeria
Event of Interest
Mar 9 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US
- Mar 13 Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific, including 15-16 deaths.
Event of Interest
Mar 16 Google commemorate Anna Atkins's 216th birthday with a Google Doodle image representing her cyanoprint work
- Mar 24 Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board
Opportunity Rover Runs a Marathon
Mar 24 NASA's Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon
Event of Interest
Mar 26 Richard III of England (1452-1485) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012
Deaths in History
Michael Graves (1934-2015)
Mar 12 American postmodernist architect and designer, dies at 80
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
Mar 12 English author of fantasy novels (Discworld), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 66
Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015)
Mar 20 Australian Prime Minister (Liberal, 1975-83), dies at 84
- Mar 20 Robert Kastenmeier, American politician (Rep-D-WI, 1959-91), dies at 91
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
Mar 23 Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), dies of pneumonia at 91
- Mar 26 Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature - 2011), dies at 83
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