Historical Events
Sports History
Mar 1 Quebec's Peter Šťastný becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in an 8-4 Nordiques' loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres
- Mar 2 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
Sports History
Mar 2 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season
- Mar 2 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
- Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history
Sports History
Mar 2 The first million dollar purse for a handicap race is won by British bred 5-year old Greinton with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard taking out the $1,359,500 Santa Anita Handicap
Sports History
Mar 4 Allan Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
- Mar 5 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national colour newspaper); it folded in 1995
- Mar 6 After losing all appeals, American rock singer David Crosby begins serving 5 year sentence for drug and weapons convictions in Texas state prison
- Mar 6 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London
- Mar 6 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
- Mar 7 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
NHL Record
Mar 7 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
- Mar 8 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
- Mar 8 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
- Mar 8 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69
- Mar 8 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
Sports History
Mar 8 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
Living Doll
Mar 8 The Young Ones and Cliff Richard release new version of single "Living Doll" for Comic Relief charity
- Mar 9 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
- Mar 9 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67
NHL Record
Mar 9 Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils
- Mar 9 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
- Mar 9 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 10 Ernie Lombardi (NL MVP in 1938) and Bobby Doerr, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Mar 11 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC
- Mar 11 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Mar 11 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
Sports History
Mar 11 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
- Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
- Mar 12 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
People's Choice Awards
Mar 13 12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV)
- Mar 13 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
- Mar 13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
- Mar 14 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
- Mar 15 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
- Mar 15 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
- Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
- Mar 18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
- Mar 18 US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
- Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
Event of Interest
Mar 20 Jacques Chirac forms French government
- Mar 20 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
- Mar 21 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Mar 21 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
- Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
- Mar 22 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
- Mar 22 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
- Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
- Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
- Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 22 Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title
- Mar 22 Kania skates ladies' world record 1500m (1:59.30)
- Mar 22 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
- Mar 23 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Rambo: First Blood Part II" wins
- Mar 23 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC
Academy Awards
Mar 24 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
Sports History
Mar 24 Men's International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors' 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boca Raton, Florida in February
- Mar 24 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
- Mar 24 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
- Mar 24 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
Sports History
Mar 25 Canadian Kurt Browning becomes the 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump
Sports History
Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
- Mar 25 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
Music History
Mar 26 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
- Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
- Mar 28 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India
- Mar 28 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
- Mar 30 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
- Mar 30 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)
- Mar 30 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
- Mar 31 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
- Mar 31 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
- Mar 31 Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes, killing 167
- Mar 31 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
Famous Birthdays
Mike Krieger (38 years old)
Mar 4 Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram, born in São Paulo, Brazil
Brittany Snow (38 years old)
Mar 9 American actress (Guiding Light), born in Tampa, Florida
- Mar 10 JC de Vera, Filipino actor, born in Manila, Philippines
- Mar 12 Danny Jones, English singer (McFly), born in Bolton, England
- Mar 13 Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol, born in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Mar 14 Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Mar 14 Jamie Bell, British actor (Billy Elliot), born in Billingham, England
- Mar 15 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
- Mar 16 Alexandra Daddario, American actress (Percy Jackson films; White Lotus; Mayfair Witches), born in New York City
- Mar 16 Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
- Mar 16 T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
- Mar 17 Edin Dzeko, Bosnian footballer (Inter Milan), born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- Mar 17 Olesya Rulin, Russian-American actress (High School Musical), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
- Mar 18 Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
- Mar 18 Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
- Mar 18 Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
- Mar 18 Li Lykke [Zachrisson], Swedish pop-electronic singer-songwriter ("I Follow Rivers"), born in Ystad, Sweden
- Mar 20 Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter (Australian Idol), and actor (Neighbours; Glee), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Mar 20 Ruby Rose, Australian model, actor (Orange is the New Black) recording artist, and gender activist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Mar 23 Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
- Mar 23 Steven Strait, American actor
- Mar 24 Anthony McMahon, English footballer
- Mar 24 Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
- Mar 25 Megan Gibson, American softball player
- Mar 26 Jessica McClure, American baby rescued after being trapped in a well in Texas (1987), born in Midland, Texas
Manuel Neuer (38 years old)
Mar 27 German soccer goalkeeper named IFFHS best GK decade 2011-20; Bayern Munich, Schalke 04, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Mar 27 Melissa Stern [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
- Mar 27 SoCal Val [Paige Nicole Mayo], American professional wrestling valet, born in Texas
- Mar 28 Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 2019; 6 x Federation Cup), born in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
- Mar 28 J-Kwon [Jerrell Jones], American rapper (Tipsy), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Lady Gaga (38 years old)
Mar 28 American singer-songwriter and actress (Bad Romance; A Star is Born), born in New York City
- Mar 28 Robert Bowdrie "Bowe" Bergdahl, American soldier held captive in Afghanistan, born in Sun Valley, Idaho
- Mar 30 Beni [Arashiro], Japanese-American R&B singer ("Kiss, Kiss, Kiss"), born in Okinawa, Japan
Sergio Ramos (38 years old)
Mar 30 Spanish soccer defender (Europe's most capped male outfield player; Real Madrid), born in Camas, Seville, Andalusia
- Mar 31 Cveta Majtanović, Serbian pop singer (Idol Serbia-Montenegro & Macedonia, 2004), born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Famous Weddings
Sonny Bono
Mar 1 American entertainer and restaurateur Sonny Bono (46) weds (his fourth and final time) American businesswoman Mary Whitaker (24), until his death in 1998
Famous Divorces
- Mar 7 Actor Johhny Depp and Lori Depp divorce after 2 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Elizabeth Smart (1913-1986)
Mar 4 Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Mar 4 Henri Knap, Dutch journalist and writer, dies at 75
- Mar 4 Howard Greenfield, American song lyricist ("Calendar Girl"; "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"; "Love Will Keep Us Together"; theme to "Bewitched"), dies of a brain tumor at 50
- Mar 4 Richard Manuel, Canadian rock vocalist and pianist (The Band - "The Shape I'm In"; "Tears Of Rage"), commits suicide at 42
- Mar 5 Teddy Hoad, West Indies cricket batsman, captain (4 Tests, Barbados), dies at 90
- Mar 6 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Mar 6 American sculptor and painter (Cow's Skull, Flowers), dies at 98
- Mar 6 István Pelle, Hungarian gymnast (Olympic gold pommel horse & floor exercise 1932), dies at 78
- Mar 7 Jacob K Javits, American politician (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Florida at 81
- Mar 8 Hubert Fichte, German writer, dies of an AIDS related illness at 50
- Mar 9 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
Ray Milland (1905-1986)
Mar 10 Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81
- Mar 11 Sonny Terry, American bind Piedmont blues musician, dies at 74
- Mar 13 Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
- Mar 14 Benno Ammann, Swiss composer (Missa Defensor Pacis) and conductor, dies at 81
- Mar 14 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
- Mar 14 Huw Wheldon, Welsh broadcaster (BBC), dies at 69
- Mar 14 Jozef Kresanek, Slovak composer, dies at 73
- Mar 17 Hal Buckley, American actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 51
- Mar 17 John Bagot Glubb, British commandant and writer (A soldier with the Arabs), dies at 88
- Mar 18 Bernard Malamud, American novelist (The Fixer, The Natural, Pulitzer 1967), dies at 71
- Mar 21 August De Boodt, Belgian politician (Minister of Reconstruction), dies at 90
- Mar 22 Charles Starrett, American actor (The Mask of Fu Manchu, Bonanza Town), dies at 82
- Mar 22 Derek Farr, British actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large), dies from cancer at 74
- Mar 22 Harriette Arnow, American novelist and historian (Dollmaker), dies at 77
- Mar 22 Mark Dinning, American singer ("Teen Angel"), dies of a heart attack at 52
- Mar 24 Sarah Cunningham, American actress (Trapper John, M.D. - "Nurse Andrews"), dies of a heart attack while attending the Oscar ceremony at 67
- Mar 26 Bartlett Robinson, American actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
- Mar 27 Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
- Mar 28 J. Víctor López, Cuban-American actor (Falcon Crest; Man From Atlantis - "Chuey"), dies of AIDS at 39
- Mar 28 Virginia Gilmore, American actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies at 66
- Mar 29 Harry Ritz [Joachim], American vaudevillian, actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers - The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show, solo cameo - Silent Movie), dies at 78
- Mar 29 Paul Grimault, French animator (Le Roi et l'oiseau - The King and the Bird), dies at 89
- Mar 30 John Ciardi, American poet and interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
- Mar 31 Jerry Paris, American director (Happy Days) and actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Jerry"), dies at 60
- Mar 31 O'Kelly Isley, American rock singer (Isley Brothers. 1954-86 - "Shout"; "Twist and Shout"; "It's Your Thing"), dies of a heart attack at 48
