Historical Events
- Mar 2 Hawaii's first telegraph company opens
- Mar 2 United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops
- Mar 3 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
- Mar 4 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
McKinley's Second
Mar 4 William McKinley inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President; his inaugural address is the first to be published in advance
Wilhelm II
Mar 6 In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
- Mar 11 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
- Mar 12 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
- Mar 13 Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment, wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco, CA; Ingleside Race Track closes March 15
- Mar 14 Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with Great Britain in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria
Van Gogh Paintings Shown
Mar 17 At a show in Paris, 71 Vincent van Gogh's paintings cause a sensation, 11 years after his death
- Mar 17 Free-thinking Democratic League forms in Netherlands
Nellie Melba's Toast
Mar 23 Australian opera star Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast
First Australian Parliament
Mar 29 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary election
Famous Birthdays
Roger Turner (1901-1993)
Mar 3 American figure skater (7x US National Champion), born in Milton, Massachusetts
- Mar 4 Charles H. Goren 'Mr Bridge', American bridge master (26 US Titles), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
- Mar 4 Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet, born in 1901, Antananarivo, Madagascar (d. 1937)
- Mar 5 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby), born in Gwoźnica, Austria-Hungary (d. 1970)
- Mar 6 Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother's Heart) and screenwriter, born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1981)
- Mar 13 Paul Fix, American actor (Rifleman), born in Dobbs Ferry, New York (d. 1983)
- Mar 15 Theo Uden Masman, Dutch big band orchestra leader (The Ramblers), born in Cirebon, Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)
- Mar 16 Edward Pawley, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1988)
- Mar 16 Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary known as the Father of Andhra for conducting a 56 day hunger strike in support of a separate Telugu-speaking state, born in Nellore District, Madras, British India (d. 1952)
Eisaku Satō (1901-1975)
Mar 17 Prime Minister of Japan (1963-72) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974), born in Tabuse, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Mar 17 Piotr Perkowski, Polish composer, born in Oweczacze (now Druzhne), Ukraine (d. 1990)
- Mar 18 William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (Flowers; Training for War), born in Florence, South Carolina (d. 1970)
- Mar 19 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch politician (1954 Nobel Peace Prize as High Commissioner for Refugees of the UN), born in Bussum, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- Mar 19 Jo Mielziner, American set designer on Broadway (Carousel, Death of a Salesman), born in Paris, France (d. 1976)
- Mar 21 Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger), born in Rushville, Indiana (d. 1966)
- Mar 21 Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
- Mar 22 Greta Kempton, Austrian born American artist (White House artist under Truman), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1991)
- Mar 24 Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
- Mar 25 Camilla Wedgwood, English anthropologist (Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides), born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (d. 1955)
- Mar 25 Ed Begley, American actor (12 Angry Men, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1970)
- Mar 27 Albert Henneberg, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1991)
Carl Barks (1901-2000)
Mar 27 American cartoonist (creator of Scrooge McDuck), born in Merrill, Oregon
- Mar 27 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (1952-63), born in Madgeburg, Germany (d. 1963)
- Mar 27 Satō Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel 1974), born in Tabuse, Japan (d. 1975)
- Mar 29 Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (The Tomb in the Rainforest), born in Muo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
- Mar 29 Uuno Kailas, Finnish poet, born in Heinola, Finland (d. 1933)
- Mar 30 Haj Ali Razmara, 33rd Prime Minister of Iran (1950-51), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 1951)
- Mar 31 Mule Suttles, American Baseball HOF infielder (5 x NgL All Star; NL batting champion 1926, 28; NgL Triple Crown 1926; St. Louis Stars), born in Edgewater, Alabama (d. 1966)
Famous Deaths
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901)
Mar 13 23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), dies in Indianapolis at 67
