Historical Events
- Mar 1 Gustav Klimt's painting "Bauerngarten" sells for $59.3m in London
Event of Interest
Mar 2 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador
- Mar 3 Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
Event of Interest
Mar 5 US President Donald Trump in a tweet accuses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign
- Mar 6 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
- Mar 7 19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San José Pinula, Guatemala
- Mar 7 Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
- Mar 8 Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration
- Mar 8 FC Barcelona in a great comeback become 1st team to overturn 4-0 deficit beating St-Germain 6-5 in return game to reach the Champions League quarter finals
Event of Interest
Mar 10 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
- Mar 11 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
- Mar 11 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins
- Mar 12 Irene Sankoff and David Hein's musical drama "Come From Away" opens at Schoenfeld Theatre, NYC
- Mar 14 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
- Mar 14 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
- Mar 15 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
Election of Interest
Mar 15 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom
- Mar 16 US President Donald Trump's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts
Beauty and the Beast
Mar 17 Live-action remake "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson opens
- Mar 20 Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared "living entities" by court in the state of Uttarakhand
- Mar 21 Singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriff’s department
- Mar 22 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles
Westminster Bridge Defies a King and the Church
Mar 22 Terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40
- Mar 22 Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem
- Mar 24 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') after internal opposition
- Mar 25 Largest banana split ever, at 8,040 metres long, is made in Innisfail, Australia
Event of Interest
Mar 26 Anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny
- Mar 26 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission
- Mar 26 Mass protests in Chile over country's privatised pension system
- Mar 28 Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting
- Mar 28 Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm
- Mar 28 US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq, that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
- Mar 28 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures
- Mar 28 World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Ivanka Trump (35) assumes an unpaid position as Senior Advisor to the President, Donald Trump (her father)
- Mar 29 Man's body found inside a 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Treaty of Interest
Mar 29 UK Prime Minister Theresa May sends a letter to the EU invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally triggering Brexit
- Mar 30 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation
- Mar 30 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use
- Mar 30 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup
- Mar 31 Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200
Famous Weddings
- Mar 3 Bachelorette TV personality Ali Fedotowsky (32) weds TV and radio host Kevin Manno (33) at Terranea Resort in Los Angeles, California
Amanda Seyfried
Mar 12 Actress and singer-songwriter Amanda Seyfried (31) weds actor Thomas Sadoski (40) in a private ceremony
- Mar 12 Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist Frankie Ballard (34) weds Old Smokey Boots owner Christina Murphy
Alison Brie & Dave Franco
Mar 13 21 Jump Street actor Dave Franco (32) weds actress Alison Brie (34) in a private ceremony
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Paula Fox, American writer (The Slave Dancer), dies at 92
- Mar 2 Simon Hobday, South African golfer (US Senior Open 1994), dies of cancer at 76
- Mar 3 Jim Fuller, American 'Godfather of Surf Guitar' and songwriter (The Safaris - "Wipe Out"), dies at 69
- Mar 3 Lyle Ritz, American jazz ukulele and session bassist, dies at 87
- Mar 3 Misha Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist and composer (Reconstruction), dies at 81
Raymond Kopa (1931-2017)
Mar 3 French soccer attacking midfielder (45 caps; Angers, Reims, Real Madrid; Ballon d'Or 1958; 'the Napoleon of football'), dies at 85
René Préval (1943-2017)
Mar 3 President of Haiti (1996-2001, 2006-2011), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
- Mar 3 Stephen Ross, American economist (arbitrage pricing theory), dies at 73
- Mar 3 Tommy Page, American pop singer ("I'll Be Your Everything"), found dead of apparent suicide at 46
- Mar 4 Clayton Yeutter, American trade negotiator and Republican National chairman, dies at 86
- Mar 4 Mother Divine [Edna Rose Ritchings], American cult leader of the International Peace Mission Movement, dies at 91
- Mar 4 Thomas Starzl, American surgeon, performed 1st successful liver transplant, dies at 90
- Mar 4 Valerie Carter, American folk-rock singer-songwriter, and session vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 64
- Mar 5 Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), dies at 84
- Mar 5 Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, dies at 78
- Mar 5 Leonard Manasseh, British architect (Rutherford School), dies at 100
- Mar 6 Alberto Zedda, Italian opera conductor and musicologist, dies at79
- Mar 6 Robert Osborne, American film historian and television host (Turner Classic Movies), dies at 84
- Mar 7 Francis Thorne, American composer (Fortuna; Elegy), dies at 94
- Mar 7 Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), dies at 94
- Mar 7 Lynne Stewart, American defense attorney (known for representing controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants), dies at 77
- Mar 8 Lou Duva, American boxing trainer, dies at 94
- Mar 9 Howard Hodgkin, British abstract painter, dies at 84
- Mar 10 (Joan) "Joni" Sledge, American vocalist (Sister Sledge "We Are Family"), dies at 60
- Mar 10 Gido Kokars, Latvian choral conductor, dies at 95
- Mar 10 John Surtees, British auto racer (World F1 C'ship 1964) and motorcycle racer (World C'ships: 350 cc – 1958, 59, 60; 500 cc – 1956, 58, 59, 60), dies of respiratory failure at 83
- Mar 10 Robert James Waller, American author (Bridges of Madison County), dies at 77
- Mar 12 Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 94
- Mar 13 Ed Whitlock, British-Canadian runner, oldest person to run marathon under 4 hrs (at 85), dies at 86
- Mar 13 Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1965-97), dies at 89
- Mar 13 Tommy LiPuma, American Grammy Award-winning jazz record producer (George Benson; Natalie Cole; Diana Krall), and record label executive (A&M, Verve, GRP), dies at 80
- Mar 15 Jackie Pung, American golfer (5 LPGA titles), dies at 95
- Mar 16 James Cotton, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, dies at 81
- Mar 16 Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (The Way of a Serpent), dies at 78
- Mar 17 Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992, dies at 87
Chuck Berry (1926-2017)
Mar 18 American rock n' roll guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Roll Over Beethoven"; "Sweet Little Sixteen"), dies at 90
- Mar 18 Don Hunstein, American photographer of musicians, dies at 88
- Mar 18 Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer, dies at 80
- Mar 19 Jimmy Breslin, American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist (NY Post; Daily News: Newsday), and novelist (The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight), dies at 88
- Mar 19 Ken Still, American golfer (3 PGA Tour titles), dies of kidney failure at 82
- Mar 19 Mary Maples Dunn, American college president (Smith College), dies at 85
- Mar 19 Roger Pingeon, French cylist (Tour de France 1967 champion), dies at 76
- Mar 20 David Rockefeller, American CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank) and philanthropist, dies at 101
- Mar 20 George Weinberg, American psychotherapist (coined "homophobia"), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino Senator, lawmaker and women's rights activist who led the drafting of the international women’s bill of rights, dies of colon cancer at 87
- Mar 21 Chuck Barris, american TV game show producer and host (Gong Show), dies at 87
- Mar 21 Colin Dexter, English crime writer (Inspector Morse), dies at 86
Martin McGuinness (1950-2017)
Mar 21 Irish Sinn Féin politician and IRA member, dies of the rare heart condition amyloidosis at 66
- Mar 22 Dallas Green, American baseball manager and pitcher (Phillies, Yankees), dies at 82
- Mar 22 Francine Hughes Wilson, American domestic abuse victim "The Burning Bed" who changed pubic perceptions, dies at 69
- Mar 23 Lola Albright, American singer and actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad, A Cold Wind in August), dies at 92
- Mar 23 Louis Frémaux, French conductor (Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, 1956-65; City of Birmingham Symphony, 1969-78; Sydney Symphony, 1979-82), dies at 95
- Mar 25 Roberta Hazard, American retired Rear Admiral (US Navy), dies at 82
- Mar 26 Alain Gagnon, Canadian composer (Chansons d'Orient), and music educator (Université Laval, 1967-2008), dies at 78
- Mar 26 Brian Oldfield, American shot-putter (credited with making rotational technique popular), dies at 71
- Mar 26 Darlene Cates, American actress (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), dies at 69
- Mar 27 Arthur Blythe, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 76
- Mar 27 Chelsea Brown, American comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln), dies at 74
- Mar 27 David Storey, British novelist and playwright (This Sporting Life), dies at 83
- Mar 28 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, dies at 87
- Mar 28 Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-born actress (Town Without Pity, Red Lips), dies at 72
- Mar 28 Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress and comedian (Guide de la petite vengeance), dies of natural causes at 95
- Mar 28 Ronald Hines, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, Pack of Lies), dies at 87
- Mar 29 Alexei Abrikosov, Russian-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 2003), dies at 88
- Mar 30 Donald Harvey, American serial killer, healthcare worker who killed at least 37 patients, dies after being attacked in prison at 64
- Mar 30 Rosalie “Rosie” Hamlin, American singer-songwriter (Rosie and The Originals – “Angel Baby”), dies at 71
- Mar 31 Gilbert Baker, American gay activist, designed the rainbow flag, dies at 65
- Mar 31 James Rosenquist, American pop artist, dies at 83
- Mar 31 Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 81
