Historical Events
- Mar 1 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
- Mar 3 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
- Mar 3 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
- Mar 4 The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny
- Mar 5 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
- Mar 5 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
- Mar 6 British Labour government cuts military budget
- Mar 8 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
- Mar 9 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
- Mar 11 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
- Mar 11 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
- Mar 11 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
Welded
Mar 17 Eugene O'Neill's play "Welded" premieres in NYC
- Mar 17 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
- Mar 17 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
The Thief of Bagdad
Mar 18 Silent film classic "The Thief of Bagdad" based on One Thousand and One Nights, starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Raoul Walsh is released
Sibelius' 7th Symphony
Mar 24 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm
- Mar 24 Greece becomes a republic
- Mar 25 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
- Mar 25 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
- Mar 26 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
- Mar 27 Canada recognizes USSR
- Mar 27 New French government of Poincaré begins
- Mar 28 83rd Grand National: Bob Trudgill wins aboard 25/1 shot Master Robert; last GN from a general riding start, now-familiar 'tape' introduced the following year.
- Mar 28 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
- Mar 29 Bavaria & Vatican reach accord
- Mar 31 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
- Mar 31 London public transport strike ends
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 (Donald) "Deke" Slayton, American US Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut (Mercury Seven; Apollo–Soyuz Test Project), born in Sparta, Wisconsin (d. 1993) [1]
- Mar 2 Alexander "Papa" Lightfoot, American blues singer and harmonica player, born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1971)
- Mar 3 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995)
- Mar 3 Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (Sa Kabukiran), born in Cebu City, Philippine Islands (d. 1948)
- Mar 4 Cal Lampley, American session pianist, record producer (Miles Davis; Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Groove Holmes), music critic, and educator (Peabody Institute), born in Dunn, North Carolina (d. 2006)
- Mar 6 Sarah Caldwell, American conductor and opera director (Flagstaff), born in Maryville, Missouri (d. 2006)
William H. Webster (100 years old)
Mar 6 American judge, Director of the FBI (1978-87) and Director of the CIA (1987-91), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Mar 7 Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor (Hydra), born in Leith, Scotland (d. 2005)
- Mar 7 Kobo Abe, Japanese playwright and writer (Woman, the Dunes), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1924)
- Mar 8 Judy Johnson [Betty Bonney], American singer (Your Show of Shows; "How Little We Know"), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut [1]
- Mar 8 Sean McClory, Irish actor (The Californians, My Chauffeur), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2003)
- Mar 9 George Haines, American swimming coach (7 x US Olympic teams), born in Huntington, Indiana (d. 2006)
- Mar 9 Konstantin Iliev, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1988)
- Mar 15 Lockrem Johnson, American pianist, composer (A Letter to Emily), educator, and music publisher, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1977)
- Mar 15 Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), born in Bonn, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (d. 1997)
- Mar 15 Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer and screenwriter (Silence), born in Orsk, Soviet Union (d. 2020)
- Mar 16 Beryl Davis, British-American cabaret and big band singer (Quintette du Hot Club de France, Glenn Miller's US Army Air Force Orchestra), born in Plymouth, England (d. 2011)
- Mar 17 Stephen Dodgson, British composer, born in Chelsea, London, England (d. 2013)
- Mar 18 Dom Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic Cardinal, Mozambique's 1st black priest, born in Zavala, Mozambique (d. 2021) [1]
- Mar 18 Madhusudan Rege, Indian cricket batsman (1 Test; Maharashtra), born in Panvel, India (d. 2013)
- Mar 19 Mary Wimbush, British actress (Oh! What a Lovely War, The Archers), born in Kenton, Middlesex, England (d. 2005)
- Mar 20 Hermann Guggiari, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor (Rejas; NNUU), born in Asunción, Paraguay (d. 2012)
- Mar 20 Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street), born in Staškov, Slovakia (d. 1998)
- Mar 21 Karl Heinz Fussl, Austrian composer, musicologist, publisher, and music critic, born in Jablonec, Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
- Mar 21 Otis Spann, American blues pianist and singer (The Blues Never Die!), born in Belzoni, Mississippi [or, perhaps, 1930 in Jackson, Mississippi] (d. 1970)
- Mar 21 Philip Abbott, American character actor (The FBI; Sweet Bird of Youth), born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 1998)
- Mar 22 Al Neuharth, American newspaper founder (USA Today), born in Eureka, South Dakota (d. 2013)
- Mar 22 Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (To Tell The Truth, 1972-77; Late Night With David Letterman; Late Show With David Letterman, 1993-95), born in New York City (d. 1999)
- Mar 22 Paul Fussell, American historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2012)
- Mar 23 Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (liquid paper), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1980)
- Mar 24 "Boogie" Bill Webb, American Louisiana blues and R&B guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Bad Dog"), born in Jackson, Mississippi (d. 1990)
- Mar 24 Eric Parkin, British classical pianist and champion of British composers, born in Stevenage, England (d. 2020)
- Mar 24 Lois Andrews [Lorraine Gourley], American actress (Dixie Dugan, Meet Me After the Show, The Desert Hawk), born in Huntington Park, California (d. 1968)
- Mar 24 Norman Fell, American actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1998)
- Mar 25 Julia Perry, American classical composer (Soul Symphony; Cask of Amontillado; Homunuclus C.F.), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1979)
- Mar 25 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu), born in Osaka, Japan (d. 2019)
- Mar 26 Brew Moore [Milton Aubrey Moore], American jazz saxophonist, born in Indianola, Mississippi (d. 1973)
- Mar 27 Sarah Vaughan, American jazz and pop singer ("Body and Soul; "Broken Hearted Melody"), often known as "Sassy" and "The Divine One", born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1990) [1]
- Mar 28 Frank Lovejoy, American actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1962)
- Mar 28 Frederick "Freddie" Bartholomew, British child actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Captains Courageous), born in London, England (d. 1992)
- Mar 28 Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1969)
- Mar 28 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, born in Berlin (d. 1996)
- Mar 29 Andrew Frierson, pioneering African American opera singer, born in Columbia, Tennessee (d. 2018)
- Mar 29 Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer and songwriter, born in Deurne, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Mar 30 Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (Archetypon), born in Slatina, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (d. 2018)
- Mar 31 Leo Buscaglia, American psychologist known as "Dr Love" (Love), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
Famous Weddings
- Mar 19 American poet e.e. cummings (29) weds first wife Elaine Orr; divorce in less than 9 months
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of Leopold II, dies at 66
- Mar 6 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
- Mar 7 Pat Moran, American baseball catcher (World Series 1907 Chicago Cubs) and manager (World Series 1919 Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease at 48
- Mar 12 Hilaire de Chardonnet, French industrialist and inventor (rayon), dies at 84
- Mar 18 Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, dies at 79
- Mar 22 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, dies at 67
- Mar 25 John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
- Mar 26 Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), dies at 78
- Mar 27 Walter Parratt, British organist and composer, dies at 83
- Mar 29 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist, conductor, composer, and music teacher (Royal College of Music, 1882-1924), dies at 71
