Historical Events
- Mar 2 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
- Mar 2 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
- Mar 2 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
- Mar 2 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
- Mar 4 Swain's Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
- Mar 4 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
- Mar 6 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
- Mar 7 American Negro Congress organizes
- Mar 9 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins
1st Flight Over Mt Demawend
Mar 10 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to fly over Mount Demawend in Iran
British Refuse Geneva Agreement
Mar 12 British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
- Mar 13 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
- Mar 13 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
Roncalli Made Bishop
Mar 19 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop, appointed as Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria
- Mar 21 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
- Mar 21 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
- Mar 21 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
- Mar 24 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
- Mar 27 84th Grand National: Major John Wilson wins aboard 100/9 shot Double Chance; first year a tape, known then as a 'gate', used at the start line
- Mar 30 Stanley Cup Final, Patrick Arena, Victoria, BC: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 6-1 for a 3-1 series win; last non-NHL team to win trophy
- Mar 31 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Lusine Amara, American concert and operas soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1950-91), born in Hartford, Connecticut [sources vary for birth year, 1924-27]
- Mar 2 Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis [Charles Thompson], American blues musician (Cold Hands), born in Tippo, Mississippi (d. 1995)
- Mar 4 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger ("Love Is Blue"), born in Marseille, France (d. 2006)
- Mar 7 Rene Gagnon, US Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, born in Manchester, New Hampshire (d. 1979)
- Mar 7 Richard Vernon, British character actor (A Hard Days Night; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Gandhi), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1997)
- Mar 8 Darwin Vargas [-Wallis], Chilean composer and choral conductor, born in Talagante, Chile (d. 1988)
- Mar 8 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra), born in Aguilas Spain (d. 2001)
- Mar 10 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1900)
- Mar 10 Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
- Mar 12 G. William Whitehurst, American politician (Rep-R-VA 1969-87), born in Norfolk, Virginia
- Mar 12 Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon; A Little Romance), born in Roubaix, France (d. 1992)
- Mar 12 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy), (d. 2012)
- Mar 12 Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona], Japanese physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973), born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Mar 12 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France (d. 1983)
- Mar 13 Bertha Tickey, American softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973), born in Dinuba, California (d. 2014)
- Mar 13 Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (Charlie Parker; Stan Getz; Thelonious Monk; Eric Dolphy; Chick Corea), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 14 (George) "Sonny" Cohn, American jazz trumpeter (Red Saunders, 1945-60; Duke Ellington, 1960-84), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006)
- Mar 14 Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
- Mar 14 John Barrington Wain, English novelist and poet (Hurry on Down), born in Stoke-on-Trent, England (d. 1994)
- Mar 15 Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (1st Chairman Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change), born in Nyköping, Sweden (d. 2007)
- Mar 16 Cornell Borchers, German actress (The Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul), born in Šilutė, Lithuania (d. 2014)
- Mar 16 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
- Mar 17 Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor (L'Avventura), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2015)
- Mar 18 Don Paul, American football player (LA Rams), (d. 2015)
- Mar 18 James Pickles, English judge and columnist, born in Halifax, West Yorkshire (d. 2010)
- Mar 19 Brent Scowcroft, American Air Force officer and National Security advisor, born in Ogden, Utah (d. 2020)
- Mar 20 David Warren, Australian scientist and inventor (Flight Data Recorder; Cockpit Voice Recorder - "the black box"), born in Groote Eylandt, Australia (d. 2010)
- Mar 20 John Erlichman, American politician aid to Nixon (convicted over Watergate break-in), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1999)
- Mar 21 Harold Ashby American jazz tenor saxophonist (Willie Dixon; Duke Ellington, 1968-75), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2003)
- Mar 21 Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
- Mar 21 John E. Grotberg, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86), born in Winnebago, Minnesota (d. 1986)
- Mar 21 Peter Brook, English theater and film director (Marat/Sade, Lord of the Flies), born in London, England (d. 2022)
- Mar 22 Colin Spedding, British biologist and animal welfare advocate (d. 2012)
- Mar 22 Gerard Hoffnung, German-British artist, humorist and tuba player (Hoffnung Music Festival), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1959)
- Mar 23 David McNee, Scottish law enforcement officer (City of Glasgow/Strathclyde Police Chief Constable, 1971-77; Metropolitan Police Commissioner, 1977-82), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2019)
- Mar 23 David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
- Mar 24 Duncan Wood, English TV director and producer (Hancock's Half Hour, Steptoe & Son), born in Bristol, England (d. 1997)
- Mar 24 Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
- Mar 25 Flannery O'Connor, American Southern novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1964)
- Mar 26 Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79), (d. 2012)
- Mar 26 Ben Mondor, Canadian baseball executive who was International League Executive of the Year 1978, 99 Pawtucket Red Sox, born in St-Ignace-du-Lac, Maskinongé, Quebec (d. 2010)
- Mar 26 Claudio Spies, Chilean American composer, born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2020)
- Mar 26 James Moody, American Grammy Award-winning bebop jazz saxophonist, flutist, and orchestra leader, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 2010)
- Mar 26 Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricket all-rounder who played 16 Tests, 2 x 50, 3 wickets; Karachi Blues, Rawalpindi; and broadcaster PTV, BBC, Radio Pakistan, born in Amritsar, British India (d. 1999)
- Mar 26 Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (Visage Nuptial), born in Montbrison, France (d. 2016)
- Mar 26 Ted Graham, Lord Graham of Edmonton, English politician, House of Lords (chief opposition whip), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 2020)
- Mar 27 Charles Henry Plumb, British Conservative politician and 15th President of the European Parliament (1987-89), born in Warwickshire, England (d. 2022)
- Mar 27 John Bayley, English academic and writer (Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch), born in Lahore, British India (d. 2015)
- Mar 27 Robert Cohan, American-British dancer (Martha Grahame Dance Company, 1946-57, 1962-69), choreographer, and artistic director (London Contemporary Dance Theatre, 1969-89), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2021)
- Mar 28 Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian baritone (1951-88), opera director State Opera, 1975-88), and parliamentarian, born in Mămăești, Romania (d. 2016)
- Mar 28 Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Soviet actor (Bely Prazdnik, Zakoldovannye), born in Tat'yanovka, Russia (d. 1994)
- Mar 29 Emlen Tunnell, American Pro Football HOF safety (NFL C'ship 1956 NY Giants, 1961 GB Packers; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 9 × Pro Bowl), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
- Mar 30 Ivo Malec, Croat-French composer (Miniatures pour Lewis Carroll; Lumina), born in Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (d. 2019)
- Mar 31 Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Homer Plessy, American Creole shoemaker and civil rights pioneer (plaintiff in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896), dies at 61
- Mar 4 James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
- Mar 4 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), dies of pneumonia at 65
- Mar 4 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer, dies at 70
- Mar 9 Willard Metcalf, American painter known chiefly for his Impressionist landscape work, and instructor, dies of a heart attack at 66
- Mar 10 John Fillmore Hayford, American Geodesist who established the theory of isostasy and founded the modern science of geodesy (precise measurements of the shape of the earth), dies at 56
- Mar 11 Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
Mar 12 Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China, dies of liver cancer at 58
- Mar 13 Lucille Ricksen [Ingeborg Ericksen], American silent-film actress, dies of tuberculosis 14
- Mar 14 Walter Camp, American, father of American football, dies at 65
- Mar 20 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
- Mar 23 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian army general and Minister of War (1898-1904), dies at 76
- Mar 27 Carl Neumann, German mathematician and physicist (Neumann-functions), dies at 92
- Mar 30 Rudolf Steiner, Austrian-born spiritualist and philosopher (founder of doctrine of anthroposophy), dies at 64
