Historical Events
- Mar 1 A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
- Mar 1 Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed
Bradman Scores 369
Mar 2 Australian cricket's batting maestro Don Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes (46 fours, 4 sixes) in South Australia's innings and 349 run win over Tasmania
- Mar 3 Clarrie Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
Hindenburg Disaster
Mar 4 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany
8th Academy Awards
Mar 5 8th Academy Awards: "Mutiny on the Bounty", Victor McLaglen & Bette Davis wins
- Mar 5 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
- Mar 6 Belgium ends Locarno pact
Hitler Breaks Treaty of Versailles
Mar 7 German dictator Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the then demilitarized Rhineland
- Mar 8 The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- Mar 13 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase at 21/20 favourite; only horse to complete Gold Cup-Grand National double
- Mar 14 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
- Mar 14 Wales beats Ireland, 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record
The Great Ziegfeld
Mar 22 "The Great Ziegfeld" directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring William Powell and Luise Rainer premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1937
- Mar 23 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1st Intravenous Radioisotope Injection
Mar 23 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
- Mar 24 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons, 1-0 in 16:30 of 6th period of OT; record Stanley Cup playoff game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes)
- Mar 25 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
- Mar 26 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
- Mar 26 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
- Mar 26 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
- Mar 27 95th Grand National: Fulke Walwyn scores back-to-back GN victories aboard Reynoldstown at 10/1
- Mar 27 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
- Mar 29 10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
- Mar 29 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
- Mar 1 Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
- Mar 1 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
- Mar 1 Monique Bégin, French Canadian politician
- Mar 2 Buell Neidlinger, American pop, jazz, and classical session cellist and double bassist (Cecil Taylor; Frank Zappa; Duane Eddy), born in New York City (d. 2018)
- Mar 2 Henny Boskamp [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)
- Mar 4 Aribert Reimann, German composer (Lear), born in Berlin, Germany
- Mar 4 David Thompson, British food magnate
- Mar 4 Eric Allandale [Dubuisson], West Indian-British rock and soul trombonist, and songwriter (The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"), born in Dominica, West Indies (d. 2001)
Jim Clark (1936-1968)
Mar 4 Scottish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1965; F1 World Champion 1963, 65; 25 x F1 GP wins), born in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland
- Mar 5 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87), born in Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2003)
- Mar 5 Dale Douglass, American golfer (3 x PGA Tour titles; 11 x Champions Tour titles; US Senior Open 1986), born in Wewoka, Oklahoma (d. 2022)
- Mar 5 Dean Stockwell, American stage and screen actor (The Werewolf of Washington; Blue Velvet; Quantum Leap), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2021)
- Mar 6 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
- Mar 6 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
- Mar 6 Sylvia Robinson, American rocker (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2011)
- Mar 7 Colin Appleton, English soccer midfielder (Leicester City 277 games) and manager (Hull City, Swansea City, Exeter City), born in Scarborough, England (d. 2021)
- Mar 7 Georges Perec, French writer (La Vie mode d'emploi (Life A User's Manual)), and filmmaker (Seire Noire), born in Paris, France (d. 1982)
- Mar 8 Gábor Szabó, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist (Spellbinder), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1982)
- Mar 8 Sonny Allen, American basketball coach (ODU, Southern Methodist University, University of Nevada, Reno; WNBA Sacramento Monarchs), born in Moundsville, West Virginia (d. 2020)
- Mar 8 Sue Ane Langdon, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie), born in Paterson, New Jersey
- Mar 9 Elina Salo, Finnish actress (Hamlet Goes Business), born in Sipoo, Finland
- Mar 9 Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- Mar 9 Mickey Gilley, American nightclub owner (Urban Cowboy) and country singer ("Roomful of Roses"), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 2022) [1]
- Mar 10 Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan folk and milonga singer-songwriter ("Recordándote"), poet, and journalist, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1989)
- Mar 10 Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli-Dutch mime artist and actor (King)
Sepp Blatter (88 years old)
Mar 10 Swiss sports administrator (President FIFA 1998-2015; later banned for corruption), born in Visp, Switzerland
- Mar 11 Antonin Scalia, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016)
- Mar 12 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
- Mar 12 Eddie Sutton, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State; first coach to take 4 schools to NCAA tournament), born in Bucklin, Kansas (d. 2020)
- Mar 12 Ernie Zampese, American football coach (San Diego State University 1967–75; SD Chargers asst. head coach 1983-85), born in Santa Barbara, California (d. 2022)
- Mar 12 Keith Slater, Australian cricket all-rounder (1 Test; WACA) and Australian Rules ruckman (WA 20 games; Swan Districts, Subiaco), born in Perth, Australia
- Mar 12 Lloyd Dobbins, newscaster (NBC News Overnight), born in Newport News, Virginia
- Mar 12 Patrick Procktor, painter
Bob Charles (88 years old)
Mar 14 New Zealand golfer (British Open 1963), born in Carterton, New Zealand
- Mar 14 Bruce Hood, Canadian National Hockey League referee (1965-84), and author (Calling The Shots), born in Campbellville, Ontario (d. 2018)
- Mar 14 Maryan Synakowski, French soccer defender (16 caps; UA Sedan Torcy 241 games), born in Calonne-Ricouart, France (d. 2021)
- Mar 15 David Andrews, Irish politician
- Mar 15 Don Sundquist, American politician (Governor of Tennessee 1995-2003, Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983-95), born in Moline, Illinois
- Mar 15 Howard Greenfield, American song lyricist ("Calendar Girl"; "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"; "Love Will Keep Us Together"; theme to "Bewitched"), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1986)
- Mar 16 Fred Neil [Morlock], American songwriter, folk singer, guitarist (Everybody's Talkin'; Candy Man), and conservationist (Dolphin Project), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2001)
- Mar 16 Raymond Damadian, American physician and inventor of the MRI scanning machine, born in New York City (d. 2022) [1]
- Mar 16 Thelma Hopkins, Northern Irish high jumper (world record 1956, Olympic silver 1956), born in Kingston upon Hull, England
- Mar 17 Ken Mattingly, American USN naval officer, and NASA astronaut (Apollo 16; STS-4, -51-C), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2023) [1]
- Mar 17 Ladislaw Kupkovic, Slovak violinist, and composer (Musik für das Ruhrfestspielhaus; Klanginvasion auf Bonn), born in Bratislava. Czechoslovak Republic (d. 2016)
- Mar 17 Robert Daniel, American Republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2012)
- Mar 18 Hans Peter Bleuel, German writer (Sex and Society In Nazi Germany), born in Stuttgart, Germany
- Mar 18 Robert Lee Smith, American singer (Tams - "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy"), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Mar 18 Tony Nash, English bobsledder (Olympic gold two-man 1964), born in Amersham, England
- Mar 19 Amancio D'Silva, Goan-Indian jazz guitarist and composer, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1996)
- Mar 19 Ben Lexcen, Australian yacht designer (Australia II 1983 America's Cup), born in Boggabri, Australia (d. 1988)
- Mar 19 Birthe Wilke, Danish pop singer (Eurovision Song Contest, 1957 & 1959), born in Vesterbro, Denmark
- Mar 19 Ursula Andress, Swiss model, actress and sex symbol (Dr. No, Casino Royale, She, Sensuous Nurse), born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland
- Mar 20 Harold Mabern Jr., American post-bop jazz pianist and composer, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2019)
- Mar 20 Lee "Scratch" Perry [Rainford Hugh Perry], Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and producer (The Upsetters), born in Kendal, Jamaica (d. 2021)
Vaughn Meader (1936-2004)
Mar 20 American comedian and musician, born in Waterville, Maine
- Mar 21 Brian Dee, British jazz and session pianist and accompanist, born in London, England
- Mar 21 Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
- Mar 21 Marek Stachowski, Polish composer (Neusis II; Thakurian Chants), and pedagogue, born in Piekary Śląskie, Poland (d. 2004)
- Mar 22 Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-British country singer ("The Last Farewell"; "Durham Town"), born in Nairobi, Kenya (d. 2023) [1]
- Mar 22 Ron Carey, American labor leader (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), born in New York City (d. 2008)
Alex Olmedo (1936-2020)
Mar 24 American-Peruvian tennis player (Australian C'ships, Wimbledon 1959), born in Arequipa, Peru
David Suzuki (88 years old)
Mar 24 Canadian scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster (The Nature of Things ), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Mar 24 Don Covay [Randolph], American R&B musician and songwriter ("Chain of Fools"), born in Orangeburg, South Carolina (d. 2015)
- Mar 24 Fredrick Kaufman, American jazz trumpeter (Woody Herman), classical composer (Mother of Exiles; Kaminarimon), and educator, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 25 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, American jazz bassist, born in New York City (d. 1995)
- Mar 26 Éder Jofre, Brazilian boxer (WBA, WBC & The Ring Bantamweight, WBC Featherweight titles; International Boxing HOF), born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 2022)
- Mar 26 Erich Urbanner, Austrian composer and educator, born in Innsbruck, Austria
- Mar 26 Fred Parris, American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Five Satins - "In The Still Of The Night"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2022)
- Mar 26 Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch soccer striker (5 caps; SC Enschede, PSV, Lausanne Sport), born in Geleen, Netherlands (d. 2021)
- Mar 27 Jerry Lacy, American actor (Play it Again Sam), born in Sioux City, Iowa
- Mar 27 Malcolm Goldstein, American composer, and violinist, born in Brooklyn, New York
Amancio Ortega (88 years old)
Mar 28 Spanish businessman who founded the Inditex fashion group (Zara, Bershka) and one of the wealthiest people in the world, born in Busdongo de Arbás, Spain
Mario Vargas Llosa (88 years old)
Mar 28 Peruvian writer, poet, journalist, presidential candidate and Nobel Prize Laureate (Aunt Julia), born in Arequipa, Peru
- Mar 29 Mogens Camre, Danish politician (Folketing (Danish Parliament), 1968-1987, 3 days in 2007; European Parliament, 1999-2009), born in Randers, Denmark (d. 2016)
- Mar 29 Richard Rodney Bennett, English pianist, classical, jazz, and film score composer (Far From The Madding Crowd; Four Weddings And A Funeral), born in Kent, England (d. 2012)
- Mar 30 Mark Burns, British director (Juggernaut)
- Mar 30 Richard Baker, American Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha), born in Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Mar 31 Bob Pulford, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing, coach (coach: LA Kings, Chicago Blackhawks), born in Newton Robinson, Ontario
- Mar 31 Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
- Mar 31 Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
Famous Weddings
Hoagy Carmichael
Mar 14 American singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (36) weds American Ruth Meinardi; divorce in 1955
Famous Divorces
D. W. Griffith
Mar 2 Film director D. W. Griffith (61) divorces Linda Arvidson (50) after 30 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
David Beatty (1871-1936)
Mar 12 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of heart failure at 65
- Mar 15 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, dies at 75
- Mar 16 Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist, and publisher (La Fronde), dies at 72
- Mar 18 Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist, actor and writer (Kleine Portratgalerie, Der Partylowe), commits suicide to avoid arrest by the Gestapo at 58
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936)
Mar 18 Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), dies of a stroke at 71
