Historical Events
- Mar 1 Major League Baseball Rules Committee rule that pitcher's mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate
Martha Washington Hotel
Mar 2 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
- Mar 3 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
- Mar 4 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
- Mar 5 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn up
- Mar 10 Harry Gammeter of Cleveland patents multigraph duplicating machine
- Mar 12 New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
- Mar 13 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
- Mar 14 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
- Mar 14 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep
- Mar 14 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
- Mar 18 Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders
Anthracite Coal Commission
Mar 22 US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop'
- Mar 23 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later
- Mar 25 Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
- Mar 26 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
- Mar 27 65th Grand National: Percy Woodland aboard 13/2 chance Drumcree wins by 3 lengths from Detail
- Mar 31 Richard Pearse flies a monoplane several hundred yards in New Zealand
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], American costume designer (MGM films, The Wizard of Oz), born in Naugatuck, Connecticut (d. 1959)
- Mar 3 Rabbe Enckell, Finnish author and poet (Lutad about Brunnen), born in Tammela, Finland (d. 1974)
- Mar 4 Harold Berens, British comedian and actor, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1995)
- Mar 4 John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
- Mar 4 William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- Mar 6 Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, American platform diver (Olympic gold 1924 and 1928), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
- Mar 6 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
- Mar 7 Maud Lewis (née Dowley), Canadian folk artist and painter, born in South Ohio, Nova Scotia (d. 1970)
- Mar 10 (Leon Bismarck) "Bix" Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist, considered one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, pianist, and composer (In A Mist), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1931)
- Mar 11 Dorothy Schiff, American owner and publisher (NY Post), born in New York City (d. 1989)
- Mar 11 George Dickinson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 8 wickets; Otago, Wellington) and rugby union five-eighth (NZ 5 x tour matches; Otago RFU), born in Dunedin, New Zealand (d. 1978)
James Franklin Hyde (1903-1999)
Mar 11 American inventor who created silica, born in Solvay, New York
- Mar 11 Lawrence Welk, American accordionist and orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show), born in Strasburg, North Dakota (d. 1992)
- Mar 11 Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian, born in Eltham, New Zealand (d. 1989)
- Mar 14 Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
- Mar 14 Mustafa al-Barzani, Kurdish leader (KDP), born in Barzan, Iraqi Kurdistan (d. 1979)
- Mar 16 Mike Mansfield, American politician (Sen-D-Montana 1953-77) majority whip, born in New York City (d. 2001)
- Mar 16 Morgan Conway, American actor (Dick Tracy, Brother Orchid), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1981)
- Mar 16 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Estonian-American composer (Variazioni Concertanti), born in Reval, Russian Empire (now Tallinn, Estonia) (d. 1976)
- Mar 19 Benjamin Marius Telders, Dutch lawyer who resisted German occupation in WWII, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1945)
- Mar 19 Jim Bullock, English colliery manager, unionist and mine pit reformist, born in Bower's Row, England (d. 1995) [1]
- Mar 20 Edgar Buchanan, American actor (Petticoat Junction), born in Humansville, Missouri (d. 1979)
- Mar 20 Vincent Richards, American tennis player (US Pro C'ships 1927-28, 30, 33), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1959)
- Mar 22 James Sargent Russell, US pilot and admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1996)
- Mar 22 Jochen Klepper, German writer, journalist, and hymnist, born in Beuthen, Silesia, Germany (d. 1942)
- Mar 24 Adolph Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1939 for work on sex hormones), born in Bremerhaven-Wesermünde, Germany (d. 1995)
- Mar 24 Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, critic and spy (Observer of Life), born in Croydon, England (d. 1990)
- Mar 24 Patrick Ludlow, British actor (Naughty Husbands, Evergreen and Modesty Blaise), born in Kensington, London, England (d. 1996)
- Mar 25 Frankie Carle [Francesco Carlone], American pianist, known as "the Wizard of the Keyboard", big band and dance orchestra leader, and songwriter ("Sunrise Serenade"; "The Golden Touch"), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2001)
- Mar 25 Gertrude "Binnie" Barnes, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers), born in London, England (d. 1998)
- Mar 25 Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- Mar 28 Charles Starrett, American actor (The Mask of Fu Manchu, Bonanza Town), born in Athol, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- Mar 28 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian-American concert pianist (noted for Beethoven interpretations), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute; Marlboro School of Music), born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1991)
- Mar 29 Arthur Negus, English antiques expert and broadcaster (Antiques Roadshow), born in Reading (d. 1985)
- Mar 30 Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
- Mar 30 Sol C Siegel, American film producer (A Letter To Three Wives, High Society, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born in New York City (d. 1982)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
- Mar 5 George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
- Mar 7 Hely Hutchinson Almond, Scottish classics scholar and early rugby umpire and advocate (Loretto School), dies at 70
- Mar 13 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura) and theologian, dies at 88
- Mar 14 Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
- Mar 16 Roy Bean, American jurist
- Mar 21 Olive Oatman, American who was captured and lived with Native Americans, dies at 65
- Mar 29 Gustavus Franklin Swift, American founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company, dies at 63
- Mar 30 William Hicks "Red" Jackson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
- Mar 31 Ebenezer Butterick, American inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), dies at 76
