Historical Events
1st Modern Submarine
Mar 17 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
- Mar 25 60th Grand National: John Gourley wins aboard 25/1 shot Drogheda
- Mar 25 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
- Mar 25 Swami Vivekananda initiates Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) into vow of Brahmacharya, first western woman received into Indian monastic order
Writer O. Henry Sentenced
Mar 25 Writer O. Henry sentenced to 5 years in prison for embezzling $854 from a bank reportedly to pay for his sick wife's medical bills. Goes on to write many classics while in jail including "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking".
- Mar 26 Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa, the world's 1st officially designated game reserve; now part of Kruger National Park
- Mar 26 Sabie Game Reserve proclaimed in the Transvaal - the beginnings of Kruger National Park
Famous Birthdays
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976)
Mar 5 Premier of the People's Republic of China, born in Huai'an, China
- Mar 6 (Johanne) "Jo" Vincent, Dutch concert soprano (St. Matthew's Passion; Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony), and voice teacher, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1989)
- Mar 6 Jimmy Conzelman, American Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, coach, team owner (Chicago Cardinals), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1970)
- Mar 7 Jan Antonín Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer (Bata), born in Uherské Hradišt, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
- Mar 10 Cyrus "Cy" Kendall, American actor (Tarzan's New York Adventure, Mysteries of Chinatown), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1953)
- Mar 11 (Irving Milford) "Miff" Mole, American jazz trombonist, and composer (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies - "Slippin' Around"; Sophie Tucker), born in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York (d. 1961)
- Mar 11 Dorothy Gish, American film actress (Orphans of the Storm), born in Massillon, Ohio (d. 1968)
- Mar 13 Josie Sedgwick, American actress (The Best Man, Queen of the Round-Up), born in Galveston, Texas (d. 1973)
- Mar 14 Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
- Mar 18 Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
- Mar 18 Otto Jochum, German composer, born in Babenhausen, Germany (d. 1969)
- Mar 23 Georgios Grivas, Cypriot leader and patriot (fought guerilla war for independence against British), born in Trikomo, Cyprus (d. 1974)
- Mar 23 Hazel Dawn [Tout], American actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1988)
- Mar 24 Dorothy Stratton, American coast guard officer (1st woman officer in US Coast Guard, SPARS), born in Brookfield, Missouri (d. 2006)
- Mar 24 George Alpert, American railroad executive (New Haven Line), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
- Mar 26 Charles Shadwell, British conductor, bandleader, and founder of the Cambridge Concert Orchestra, born in Pershore, Worcestershire, England (d. 1979)
- Mar 26 Renzo Massarani, Italian-Brazilian composer and music critic, born in Mantova, Italy (d. 1975)
- Mar 29 Cecil Arthur Lewis, British fighter pilot and writer, born in Birkenhead, England (d. 1997)
- Mar 30 Heinz Risse, German writer, born in Dusseldorf (d. 1989)
- Mar 30 Joyce Carey, British actress (Brief Encounter, The Cedar Tree), born in Kensington, London (d. 1993)
Famous Weddings
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Mar 6 Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (25) weds political activist and poet Alice Ruth Moore (22) in New York
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India and author, dies at 72
- Mar 10 George Müller, Prussian Christian evangelist and orphanage builder, dies at 92
- Mar 11 William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
- Mar 12 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
- Mar 15 Henry Bessemer, English inventor (Bessemer converter - revolutionised steel making), dies at 85
- Mar 16 Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
- Mar 17 Blanche Kelso Bruce, American politician (Senator-Mississippi, 1875-1881), dies at 57
- Mar 18 Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
- Mar 19 João da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
- Mar 27 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of the Pakistan movement, dies at 80
- Mar 31 Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies
