Historical Events
- Mar 1 National Baseball Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams; decision later reversed, making way for traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins
- Mar 1 Wall of snow collapse in Cascade Mountain Range buries three passenger trains, killing 96, near Steven's Pass, Washington; 23 people survive the worst avalanche in US history [1]
Rockefeller Jr. Retires
Mar 3 John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist at the Rockefeller Foundation
- Mar 4 Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers - Canada's worst avalanche disaster [1]
- Mar 5 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres
- Mar 5 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
- Mar 8 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
- Mar 10 Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing
- Mar 10 Republic of China officially abolishes slavery
Hobbs Scores 187
Mar 11 English cricketer Jack Hobbs scores 187 vs South Africa, his 1st international test hundred only to then get out hit wicket
- Mar 12 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
- Mar 14 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
- Mar 16 Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
- Mar 18 72nd Grand National: Bob Chadwick wins aboard 100/8 chance Jenkinstown; earliest Grand National to which there are moving images
- Mar 18 Frederick Converse's opera "The Pipe of Desire" is the first American opera to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
- Mar 19 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
- Mar 24 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
- Mar 25 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
- Mar 26 US forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
- Mar 26 William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
- Mar 27 Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312
Fabre Hydravion
Mar 28 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon at Martigues, France
- Mar 30 Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi
Famous Birthdays
Archer John Porter Martin (1910-2002)
Mar 1 English chemist and Nobel laureate, born in London, England
David Niven (1910-1983)
Mar 1 British actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther), born in London, England
- Mar 3 Kittens Reichert [Catherine Alma Reichert], American silent screen child actor [House of Cards, Les Misérables], born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1990)
- Mar 4 Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (Prime Minister and elected President 1985), born in São João del-Rei, Brazil (d. 1985)
- Mar 5 Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint and youngest witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fátima, born in Fátima, Portugal (d. 1920)
- Mar 5 Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby-Dick, Melba), born in Portaferry, Ireland (d. 1995)
- Mar 5 Konstantin Sergeyev, Russian ballet dancer (Romeo and Juliet) and Director of the Kirov Ballet, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1992) [1]
Momofuku Ando (1910-2007)
Mar 5 Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles, born in Wu Baifu, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Claire Trevor (1910-2000)
Mar 8 American actress (Marjorie Morningstar), born in New York City
- Mar 9 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Survivor), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1970)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Mar 9 American composer (School for Scandal; Adagio For Strings), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Mar 11 Robert Havemann, German chemist and dissident, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982)
- Mar 12 Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
- Mar 12 Roger L. Stevens, American real estate magnate, Broadway theater producer (West Side Story) and fundraiser (John F. Kennedy Center), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1998) [1]
- Mar 12 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, American heavyweight boxer and actor (On the Waterfront), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 1979)
- Mar 13 Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (Gertrud, Hooray for the Blue Hussars), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1985)
- Mar 13 Sammy Kaye, American orchestra leader (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1987)
- Mar 15 An Rutgers van der Loeff, Dutch children's book writer (Skating Race), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1990)
- Mar 15 Joop Van Nellen, Dutch soccer forward (27 caps; DHC Delft), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Mar 16 Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1991)
- Mar 16 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page, Dressing Up), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Mar 16 I. A. K. Pataudi, Indian cricket batsman (3 Tests England, 3 India; 1 x 100; Oxford University CC, Worcestershire CCC, Southern Punjab), born in Pataudi, India (d. 1952)
- Mar 16 Norman Wooland, British character actor (Ivanhoe, Quo Vadis, Hamlet), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1989)
Bayard Rustin (1910-1987)
Mar 17 American civil rights leader (March on Washington organizer, Social Democrats USA), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Mar 18 Chiang Ching-huo, Chinese politician (son of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, President of Taiwan 1978-88), born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, China (d. 1988)
- Mar 19 Joseph F. Carroll, American US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1991)
- Mar 19 Sergei Anokhin, Soviet test pilot who set world records for gliding flights, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1986)
- Mar 21 M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
- Mar 21 Nick Castle, American choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1968)
- Mar 22 Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (The Cruel Sea), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1979)
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Mar 23 Japanese director and screenwriter who was posthumously named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category (Rashomon, Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ran), born in Tokyo Japan
- Mar 24 Jacques Chailley, French musicologist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1999)
- Mar 24 Richard Conte, American actor (The Godfather, Tony Rome, Hotel), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1975)
- Mar 25 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (Adriana Lecouvreur; La Voix Humaine), born in Saluzzo, Italy (d. 2014)
- Mar 25 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1996)
- Mar 27 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province (d. 1996)
- Mar 27 Frank Smailes, English cricket all-rounder (1 Test; 8 County C'ships, Yorkshire), born in Ripley, North Yorkshire, England (d. 1970)
- Mar 27 John Pierce, American engineer (1st communications satellite Telstar 1), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2002)
- Mar 27 Rudi Ball, German-Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic bronze 1932), born in Berlin (d. 1975)
- Mar 28 Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, born in Greenwich, Connecticut (d. 2001)
- Mar 28 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark, Wife of King Frederik IX, ruler of Denmark (1947-72), born in Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2000)
- Mar 28 Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1964)
- Mar 30 Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician, born in Cimoszka, Poland (d. 1940)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
- Mar 10 Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer and teacher (Undine Sonata), dies at 85
- Mar 10 Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65
- Mar 17 Joaquin Valverde Durán, Spanish composer, dies at 64
- Mar 20 James Hogan, Irish College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Yale), dies of Bright's disease at 37
- Mar 20 Nadar [Félix Tournachon], French photographer and balloonist, took the first aerial photograph, dies at 89
- Mar 24 Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa's Grove of giant Sequoia trees), dies at 95 [1]
- Mar 26 An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist and assassin of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, executed by Japanese authorities at 30
- Mar 26 Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
- Mar 27 Alexander Agassiz, American biologist and geologist, dies at 74
- Mar 27 David Duffle Wood, American blind composer (organist and choir master at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church), dies at 72
- Mar 28 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
- Mar 28 Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor, dies at 71
- Mar 28 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
- Mar 29 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
