Historical Events
- Mar 1 Daryll Cullinan scores South African cricket record 275no in the drawn 1st Test against New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; Gary Kirsten 128
- Mar 3 "Fortunate" single by soul singer Maxwell released (Billboard Music Award Best R&B Single of the Year, 1999)
- Mar 5 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut
Murder of Interest
Mar 8 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 15 14th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Billy Joel; Curtis Mayfield; Paul McCartney; Del Shannon; Dusty Springfield; Bruce Springsteen; The Staple Singers; Charles Brown; Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; and George Martin
- Mar 20 19th Golden Raspberry Awards: An Alan Smithee Film "Burn Hollywood Burn" wins
- Mar 20 Legoland, California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California
- Mar 21 Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard and British aviator Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- Mar 22 "Amazed" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 1999)
Livin' la Vida Loca
Mar 23 "Livin' la Vida Loca" sung by Ricky Martin released - goes on to sell over 8 million copies
- Mar 23 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña
The Matrix
Mar 24 "The Matrix" film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres
- Mar 24 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- Mar 24 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 25 13th Soul Train Music Awards: Luther Vandross, R. Kelly & Lauryn Hill win
Murder of Interest
Mar 26 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man
- Mar 26 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
TV Show Appearance
Mar 26 Tom Snyder's final appearance as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, after 777 episodes
- Mar 28 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke, 62-45; Boilermakers' Ukari Figgs is named Most Outstanding Player
Golf Major
Mar 28 Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: 1992 champion Dottie Pepper wins the last of her 2 major titles, 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Meg Mallon
PGA Players Championship
Mar 28 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: David Duval wins by 2 strokes from Scott Gump; Duval's father Bob wins Senior Tour's Emerald Coast Classic on the same day
WrestleMania
Mar 28 WrestleMania XV, First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA: 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin beats The Rock in no disqualification match for the WWF Heavyweight title
- Mar 29 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Duke, 77-74; Huskies' first title in first title game
- Mar 29 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever
- Mar 30 Craig Kilborn becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS; hosts the program through 2004
10 Things I Hate About You
Mar 31 "10 Things I Hate About You", a modernization of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, is released
1999 History
Famous Birthdays
Janja Garnbret (25 years old)
Mar 12 Slovenian competitive climber, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
- Mar 13 Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress, born in Warsaw, Poland
- Mar 14 Marvin Bagley III, American NBA player (Detroit Pistons), born in Temple, Arizona
- Mar 14 Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter (Imperfect), born in London, England
- Mar 19 Tatum McCann, American actress
- Mar 23 Prince Beltran of Bulgaria
Famous Weddings
- Mar 20 "Smallville" actress Annette O' Toole (46) weds "Laverne and Shirley" actor Michael McKean (51) at The Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Mar 2 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
- Mar 3 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist (1971 Nobel Prize), dies at 94
- Mar 3 Lee Philips, American actor and director (Peyton Place, Ellery Queen), dies of progressive supranuclear palsy at 72
- Mar 4 Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
Harry Blackmun (1908-1999)
Mar 4 American lawyer, jurist and 100th Supreme Court Justice (1970-94) who authored the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, dies at 90
- Mar 4 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
- Mar 5 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Kismet; Man of La Mancha; Endless Love), dies at 76
- Mar 6 Dennis Viollet, English soccer inside forward (2 caps; Manchester United 293 games, Stoke City), dies at 65
- Mar 6 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
- Mar 7 Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
- Mar 7 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, dies at 80
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
Mar 7 American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), dies at 70
- Mar 8 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
- Mar 8 Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71
Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999)
Mar 8 American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder (13 × MLB All-Star; 9 x World Series; 3 x AL MVP; MLB record 56-game hitting streak; NY Yankees), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Mar 8 Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass, American actress, comedian, game show panelist and announcer (To Tell The Truth), dies at 74
- Mar 8 William Wrigley III, American chewing gum mogul (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company), dies of pneumonia at 66
- Mar 9 Harry Somers, Canadian composer, dies at 73
- Mar 10 Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
- Mar 11 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), dies at 76
- Mar 11 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
- Mar 11 Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox), dies from a heart attack at 87
- Mar 12 Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok's Sonata), dies at 82
- Mar 13 Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
- Mar 13 Garson Kanin, American playwright, director, and producer (Double Life; Born Yesterday), dies at 96
- Mar 13 Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (The Phantom), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Kirk Alyn [John Feggo Jr], American actor (Superman), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Mar 15 Sid Green, British screenwriter, with Dick Hills (Two Of A Kind; The Strange World of Gurney Slade), and comedian (Those Two Fellers), dies at 71
- Mar 16 Eric Norman Stokes, American composer, dies in an auto accident at 68
- Mar 16 Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
- Mar 16 Theo Joekes, Dutch journalist, writer, and politician (VVD), dies at 75
- Mar 17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
- Mar 17 Rod Hull, British comedian (Emu), dies after falling off a roof at 63
- Mar 18 Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator, dies at 93
- Mar 18 Lillian McMurry (née Shedd), American blues producer, audio engineer, and record label owner (Trumpet Records - Sonny Boy Williamson II; Elmore James), dies of a heart attack at 77 [1]
- Mar 19 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75
- Mar 19 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes), dies at 72
- Mar 19 Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (Olympic gold -56kg 1948), dies at 84
- Mar 19 Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- Mar 20 Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
- Mar 20 Roy L. Johnson, American admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean, commanded Seventh Fleet 1960s), dies at 93
- Mar 21 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant, dies at 89
- Mar 21 Ernie Wise, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 73
- Mar 22 David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
- Mar 23 Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
- Mar 24 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
- Mar 24 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
- Mar 24 Henry Brandon [Lord Brandon of Oakbrook], British judge (Lord of Appeal - Ordinary) and probable spy (Military Cross), dies at 78
- Mar 25 Cal Ripken Sr, American baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles 1987-88; World Series 1983 [coach]), dies of lung cancer at 63
- Mar 28 Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
- Mar 29 Joe Williams [Goreed], American jazz singer (Everyday I Have The Blues), dies of natural causes at 80
- Mar 30 Gary Morton [Morton Goldaper], American comedian, television producer, studio executive (Desilu), and second husband of Lucille Ball, dies of lung cancer at 74
- Mar 30 Terry Wilson, American actor (Wagon Train; Escape to Witch Mountain), dies at 75
- Mar 31 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (major role indeciphering Mayan script), dies at 77
