Historical Events
- Mar 1 Charlie Francis, coach of disqualified sprinter Ben Johnson tells federal inquiry into Canada's greatest sports scandal Johnson knowingly used steroids since 1981; Johnson first across line Olympic 100m 1988
- Mar 1 Comet du Toit at perihelion
- Mar 1 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- Mar 2 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
- Mar 2 GreenLeft (GroenLinks) political party forms from merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals, and the Evangelical People's Party in the Netherlands
Sports History
Mar 2 NY Mets stars Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry famously nearly come to blows in front of reporters and TV crews at spring training
- Mar 2 Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
- Mar 3 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
- Mar 3 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for pleading guilty to withholding information from Congress in Iran-Contra illegal arms-for-hostages affair
- Mar 4 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
- Mar 4 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
- Mar 5 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
- Mar 5 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
- Mar 6 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
Sports History
Mar 7 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"
- Mar 7 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
- Mar 8 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
- Mar 8 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
- Mar 9 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
- Mar 9 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
- Mar 9 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
- Mar 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Event of Interest
Mar 9 US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
- Mar 12 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
People's Choice Awards
Mar 12 15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
- Mar 12 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
- Mar 12 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
- Mar 12 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submits his first proposal for an "information management system" to his boss at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who finds it “vague, but exciting”
- Mar 12 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
- Mar 13 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
- Mar 13 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
- Mar 13 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
- Mar 15 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- Mar 15 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
- Mar 17 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
- Mar 17 Revival of Mitch Leigh and Ted Allen's musical "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater, NYC; for 45 performances
- Mar 18 27th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 8 (STS-29), returns to Earth
- Mar 18 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
- Mar 18 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game
- Mar 18 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops
- Mar 19 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- Mar 19 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Sports History
Mar 19 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
PGA Players Championship
Mar 19 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
- Mar 19 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 19 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
Sports History
Mar 22 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
- Mar 22 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
- Mar 23 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
- Mar 23 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
- Mar 24 Exxon tanker Valdez spills 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound, near Tatitlek, Alaska
Film & TV History
Mar 24 NBC rebroadcasts Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard's 1960 version of "Peter Pan" for the first time since 1973
Louvre Pyramid
Mar 28 The Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei is inaugurated by French President François Mitterrand in Paris
- Mar 29 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
- Mar 29 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
- Mar 29 61st Academy Awards: "Rain Man" - Best Picture, Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Director (Barry Levinson) and Screenwriting; and Jodie Foster win
- Mar 29 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
- Mar 29 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
Event of Interest
Mar 31 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1989 History
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Carlos Vela, Mexican soccer winger (72 caps; Real Sociedad, Los Angeles FC), born in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Mar 1 Sonya Kitchell, American contemporary folk singer-songwriter ("Can't Get You Out Of My Mind"), born in Northampton, Massachusetts
- Mar 2 Chris Woakes, English cricket all-rounder (HS 137, BB 6/17; Warwickshire CCC), born in Birmingham, England
- Mar 2 Natalie Emmanuel, English actress (Die Hart), born in Southend-on-Sea, England
- Mar 3 Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.
- Mar 5 Jake Lloyd, American actor (The Phantom Menace), born in Fort Collins, Colorado
Agnieszka Radwańska (35 years old)
Mar 6 Polish tennis player (WTA Finals champion 2015), born in Kraków, Poland
- Mar 7 Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model (Maalaala Mo Kaya), born in Subic, Philippines
- Mar 8 Ming Xi, Chinese model, born in Shanghai, China
- Mar 11 Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (d. 2016)
- Mar 13 P. K. Subban, Canadian ice hockey player (New Jersey Devils), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Mar 13 Peaches Geldof, English columnist and daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, born in London (d. 2014)
- Mar 14 Colby O'Donis [Colón] American singer (Lady Gaga -"Just Dance"), songwriter, and record producer, born in Queens, New York
- Mar 15 Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
- Mar 15 Margaret Nales Wilson, Filipino model, born in Bacolod City, Philippines
- Mar 16 Blake Griffin, American basketball forward (6 x NBA All-Star; 5 x All-NBA: NBA Rookie of the Year 2011; LA Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Mar 16 Gabriel Attal, French politician (France's youngest and 1st openly gay Prime Minister), born in Clamart, France
- Mar 16 Theo Walcott, English football player (Arsenal, English national team), born in Stanmore, England
- Mar 17 Morfydd Clark, Welsh actress (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), born in Sweden
- Mar 17 Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer (Borussia Dortmund), born in Kobe, Japan
- Mar 18 Lily Collins, British American actress (Mirror, Mirror), born in Guildford, England
- Mar 20 Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Mar 21 Rochelle Humes, British pop singer (The Saturdays - "What About Us"), born in Barking, England
J. J. Watt (35 years old)
Mar 22 American NFL player (Houston Texans), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin
- Mar 24 Zyzz [Aziz Shavershian], Kurdish-Russian-Australian bodybuilder and model, born in Moscow, USSR (d. 2011)
- Mar 25 Alyson Michalka, American actress (Phil of the Future; iZombie), and singer-songwriter (Aly & AJ - "Potential Break-Up Song"), born in Torrance, California
- Mar 25 Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
- Mar 25 Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- Mar 26 Simon Kjær, Danish soccer centre-back and captain national team; AC Milan, Lille, Palermo, VfL Wolfsburg, born in Horsens, Denmark
- Mar 26 Von Miller, American football linebacker who won Super Bowl 50 (MVP) Denver Broncos, LVI LA Rams; First-team All-Pro 2012, 15, 16; 8 x Pro Bowl, born in Dallas, Texas
- Mar 28 Afrikan Boy [Olushola Ajose], British rapper ("Wot It Do?"), born in Nigeria
- Mar 28 Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
- Mar 28 Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
- Mar 28 Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
- Mar 29 Michelle Zauner, American musician and writer (Japanese Breakfast), born in Seoul, South Korea
Famous Weddings
Kevin Kline
Mar 4 Actress Phoebe Cates marries fellow actor Kevin Kline
William Hurt
Mar 5 Actor William Hurt marries second wife Heidi Henderson (divorced 1993)
Famous Divorces
David Hasselhoff
Mar 1 "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage
Bruce Springsteen
Mar 1 Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch journalist and VARA radio host, dies at 64
- Mar 1 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress and director (Bluejackets, De kleine zielen), dies at 71
- Mar 4 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel), dies at 88 [1]
- Mar 4 Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (Art Tatum), dies of meningitis at 72
- Mar 6 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
- Mar 8 Stuart Hamblen, American singer and composer (This Ole House), dies at 80
- Mar 9 Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, dies at 42
- Mar 10 Doc Green, American pop baritone vocalist (The Drifters - "Under the Boardwalk"; "Up on the Roof"), dies of cancer at 54
- Mar 11 James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
- Mar 11 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
- Mar 11 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), dies at 93
- Mar 11 William Challee, American stage and screen actor (Desperate; Five Easy Pieces; Moonchild), dies at 84
- Mar 12 Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes; Bewitched), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Edward Abbey American environmental author (The Monkey Wrench Gang), dies after surgery at 62
- Mar 14 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
- Mar 15 Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- Mar 17 Marek Bliziński, Polish jazz guitarist and composer, dies of skin cancer at 41
- Mar 17 Merritt Butrick, American actor (Shy People, Square Pegs), dies of AIDS at 29
- Mar 18 Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (Theory of Probability) and geophysicist, dies at 97
- Mar 18 Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
- Mar 19 Alan Civil, British horn player (played solo on Beatles "For No One"), dies of liver and kidney failure at 59
- Mar 20 Alan Gifford [John Lennox], American actor (Time Lock, 2001: A Space Odyssey), dies at 78
- Mar 20 Archie Bleyer, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey), dies at 79
- Mar 21 Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
- Mar 24 Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Lionel Hampton), dies at 70
- Mar 27 May Allison, American actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies of respiratory failure at 98
- Mar 29 Bernard Blier, French character actor (Les Miserables; Women & War), dies at 73
- Mar 31 Bill Chappell Jr., American politician (Rep-D-FL, 1969-89), dies at 67