Historical Events
Election of Interest
Mar 5 Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke defeats sitting Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in a general election
- Mar 5 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
Election of Interest
Mar 6 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
- Mar 6 In New Bedford, Massachusetts, woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
On Your Toes
Mar 6 Revival of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater, NYC; runs for 505 performances
Event of Interest
Mar 8 President Reagan 1st known use of term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR) in speech in Florida
- Mar 9 Caryl Churchill's "Fen" premieres in London
- Mar 9 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 10 Former Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
People's Choice Awards
Mar 11 9th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda and Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans and Loretta Swit win (TV)
Sports History
Mar 11 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki, Finland won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
- Mar 11 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
- Mar 11 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
Sports History
Mar 11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
- Mar 12 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77
- Mar 12 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
- Mar 13 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
- Mar 13 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
- Mar 13 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
- Mar 13 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 770 performances
- Mar 14 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
- Mar 15 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
- Mar 16 Smallest crowd of 1,814 attend NBA Cavaliers vs. NY Nets game at Cleveland Coliseum
NBA History
Mar 17 70th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
- Mar 19 France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship; no tie-break procedure exists before 1993
Sports History
Mar 20 In a clash of tennis legends, Martina Navratilova outclasses Chris Evert Lloyd 6-2, 6-0 to win her first of 5 straight WTA Tour Championships at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Mar 21 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
- Mar 22 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
- Mar 23 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
- Mar 25 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
Music History
Mar 25 Motown 25, a concert celebrating the anniversary of Motown records is taped for broadcast at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California; performers include: The Miracles; The Temptations; The Four Tops; Diana Ross and the Supremes; The Jackson 5; and Michael Jackson, who unveils his "moonwalk" dance move
- Mar 25 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
- Mar 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 27 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Film & TV History
Mar 27 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC
- Mar 28 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Hal Sutton comes from 4 strokes back with a final round 69 to win a rain-affected Monday finish by 1 stroke ahead of Bob Eastwood
- Mar 30 New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future
- Mar 30 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
- Mar 30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Film & TV History
Mar 31 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," is released in the US
- Mar 31 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in NYC
- Mar 31 Popayán Earthquake (5.5 Mw Depth) in Colombia kills 267 people, injuring some 7,500
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian soccer winger (3 caps; Internacional, CSKA Moscow), born in Pelotas, Brazil
- Mar 1 Elán DeFan (aka Shy Porter), Mexican alt-rock singer-songwriter and piano player ("Street Child"), born in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico
- Mar 1 Lupita Nyong’o, Mexican-Kenyan actress (12 Years a Slave), born in Mexico City
- Mar 1 Melaine Walker O.D, Jamaican athlete (Olympic gold 400m hurdles 2008; World C'ship gold 2009), born in Kingston, Jamaica
- Mar 2 Glen Perkins, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 2013-15; Minnesota Twins), born in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Mar 4 Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian-Italian writer, born in Bogotá, Colombia
- Mar 6 Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
- Mar 7 Greta Lee, American actress (Past Lives), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 7 Manucho, Angolan footballer, born in Luanda, Angola
- Mar 8 Mark Worrell, American baseball player.
- Mar 9 Clint Dempsey, American footballer, born in Nacogdoches, Texas
- Mar 9 Maite Perroni [Beorlegui], Mexican actress and Latin pop singer (RBD), born in Mexico City
- Mar 9 Wayne Simien, American basketball player (Miami Heat), born in Leavenworth, Kansas
Carrie Underwood (41 years old)
Mar 10 American Grammy Award-winning country singer-songwriter (Cowboy Casanova), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
- Mar 10 Che'Nelle [Cheryline Lim] Malaysian-Australian pop and hip-hop singer-songwriter, born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
- Mar 10 Janet Mock, American writer, TV host and transgender rights activist (Redefining Realness), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Mar 10 Rafe Spall, English Actor (The Big Short), born in London, England
- Mar 10 Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
- Mar 13 Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer (Olympic 2004 Gold), born in Mission Viejo, California
- Mar 14 Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer (2004 Olympic gold medal), born in Taraz, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
- Mar 14 Johnny Flynn, English actor (Emma; Genius) and singer-songwriter (The Sussex Wit), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Mar 14 Taylor Hanson, American pop singer and keyboard player (Hanson - "MMMMbop"), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Mar 15 Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
- Mar 15 Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
- Mar 17 Martin Shkreli, American businessman (Pharma), former hedge fund manager and convicted felon, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 18 Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
- Mar 18 Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
- Mar 19 Ana Rezende, Brazilian rock guitarist and keyboard player (CSS), and film director, born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Mar 19 Matt Sydal, American professional wrestler
- Mar 23 François Gabart, French sailor (record round-the-world trip), born in Saint-Michel-d'Entraygues, France
Mo Farah (41 years old)
Mar 23 Somalian-born British distance runner (4 Olympic Golds), born in Somalia
- Mar 24 T. J. Ford, American basketball player
- Mar 26 Michael Mondo [Mike Brendli], American professional wrestler (WWE), born in Gordon Heights, New York
- Mar 28 Ryan Ashington, English footballer
- Mar 29 Ed Skrein, English actor (Deadpool) and director, born in London, England
- Mar 29 Luiza Sá, Brazilian rock guitarist and keyboard player (CCS - Cansei de Ser Sexy), born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Mar 30 Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
- Mar 30 Hebe Tian, Taiwanese Mando-pop singer (S.H.E), born in Xinfeng, Taiwan
- Mar 30 Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer (Arsenal), born in Rambouillet, France
- Mar 30 Scott Moffatt, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Moffatts), born in Whitehorse, Yukon
- Mar 30 Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
- Mar 31 Hashim Amla, South African cricket batsman (first RSA Test triple century, 311), born in Durban, Natal
- Mar 31 Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast (World C'ships gold, horizontal bar 2001-02), born in Athens, Greece
Famous Weddings
Harrison Ford
Mar 4 Actor Harrison Ford marries screenwriter Melissa Mathison (divorced 2004)
Famous Divorces
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (Darkness at Noon), commits suicide at 77
Hergé (1907-1983)
Mar 3 Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin), dies at 75
- Mar 6 Cathy Berberian, American mezzo-soprano and composer (Stripsody), dies of a heart attack at 57
- Mar 6 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55
- Mar 7 Igor Markevitch, Russian composer and conductor (Le Paradis Perdu), dies at 70
- Mar 7 Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
- Mar 8 William Walton, English composer (Troilus & Cressida; Belhazzar's Feast), dies at 80
- Mar 9 Faye Emerson, American actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
- Mar 9 Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist famous for his work on neurotransmitters (Nobel 1970), dies at 78
- Mar 11 Lurlean Hunter, American jazz singer, dies at 63
- Mar 12 Ki Aldrich, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker (TCU; Pro Bowl 1939, 42; Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins), dies at 66
- Mar 12 Yevsei Liberman, Ukraine Soviet economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
- Mar 13 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies of cancer at 58
- Mar 13 Paul Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
- Mar 14 Maurice Ronet, French film actor, director, and writer (Frantic, Sphinx, Circle of Love), dies of cancer at 55
- Mar 15 José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, dies at 80
- Mar 15 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author (Meaning of Treason), dies at 90
Arthur Godfrey (1903-1983)
Mar 16 American radio and TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout), dies at 79
- Mar 16 Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903-1983)
Mar 17 American physiologist, (1967 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for work in the eye), dies at 79
- Mar 17 Ray Barr, American pianist (Vincent Lopez Show), dies at 70
- Mar 18 Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 80
- Mar 18 Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
- Mar 18 Robert F. Bradford, American politician (57th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 80
- Mar 18 Umberto II of Italy, the last king of Italy (reigned for 24 days in 1946), dies in exile at 78
- Mar 20 Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (analytic number theory), dies at 91
- Mar 23 Barney Clark, American heart patient, 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
- Mar 23 David Wynne, Welsh composer (Owain ab Urien), dies at 82
- Mar 25 Bob Waterfield, American football quarterback (NFL MVP 1945; First-team All-Pro 1945, 46, 49; Pro Bowl 1950, 51; Cleveland/LA Rams), dies at 62
- Mar 25 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Mar 26 Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy for USSR, dies at 75
- Mar 27 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
- Mar 27 Jānis Ivanovs, Latvian composer, and pedagogue, dies at 76
- Mar 28 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
- Mar 28 Martinus A. Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
- Mar 28 Walter Reisch, Austrian-American director and screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic), dies at 79
- Mar 31 Christina Stead, Australian writer (Man Who Loved Children), dies at 80
- Mar 31 Stephen Murray, English actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70
