Historical Events
- Mar 1 Benin nullifies its constitution
- Mar 1 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132
- Mar 1 Luis Alberto Lacalle sworn in as the 36th President of Uruguay
- Mar 1 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Mar 2 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
- Mar 3 Carole Gist (20) is the 1st African American to be crowned Miss USA in Wichita, Kansas
- Mar 4 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
- Mar 6 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
- Mar 7 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
- Mar 7 Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m
- Mar 8 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
- Mar 9 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st Hispanic and female US Surgeon General
- Mar 10 4th American Comedy Award: "When Harry Met Sally"
- Mar 10 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
- Mar 10 Ice Pairs World Championship at Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
- Mar 10 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
Sports History
Mar 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
- Mar 10 Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
- Mar 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 11 11th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 78-75
People's Choice Awards
Mar 11 16th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
- Mar 11 31st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
- Mar 11 37th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia, 70-61
- Mar 11 Lithuania declares its Independence
- Mar 12 LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland
- Mar 13 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 14 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win
Event of Interest
Mar 14 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
- Mar 15 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
- Mar 17 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
- Mar 17 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
- Mar 18 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
- Mar 18 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
- Mar 18 A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch
- Mar 18 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
- Mar 18 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jodie Mudd wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Mark Calcavecchia; winner's cheque $270,000
- Mar 19 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
Sports History
Mar 20 LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
Music History
Mar 20 Singer Gloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Mar 21 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 149 performances
- Mar 21 "Normal Life" starring Max Gail, Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
- Mar 21 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
Sydney
Mar 21 TV sitcom "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko premieres on CBS-TV
- Mar 22 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
- Mar 22 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
- Mar 22 The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
- Mar 23 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
- Mar 24 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
- Mar 24 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
- Mar 25 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
- Mar 25 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
- Mar 25 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
Academy Awards
Mar 26 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
Academy Awards
Mar 26 Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa wins the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Mar 27 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
- Mar 27 NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
- Mar 27 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- Mar 28 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
NBA Record
Mar 28 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
Sports History
Mar 28 US President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
Golf Tournament
Mar 30 Jack Nicklaus makes his debut on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain; wins the event by 4 strokes from Gary Player
Carol & Company
Mar 31 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
- Mar 31 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
- Mar 31 Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
Music History
Mar 31 Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and William S. Burroughs' avant garde opera "The Black Rider" premieres March 31, 1990 at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Famous Birthdays
Draymond Green (34 years old)
Mar 4 American basketball forward (NBA C'ship 2015, 17, 18, 22; 4 × NBA All-Star; NBA Defensive Player of the Year 2017; GS Warriors; Olympic gold 2016, 20), born in Saginaw, Michigan
- Mar 7 Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins, born in New Germany, Minnesota
Petra Kvitová (34 years old)
Mar 8 Czech tennis player (Wimbledon 2011, 14), born in Bilovec, Czech Republic
- Mar 12 Dont'a Hightower, American football linebacker (Super Bowl XLIX, LI, LIII New England Patriots; Pro Bowl 2016, 19), born in Lewisburg, Tennessee
- Mar 13 Alec Medlock, American actor, born in Torrance, California
- Mar 17 Hozier [Andrew Hozier-Byrne], Irish folk-soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Take Me To Church"), born in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
- Mar 17 Saina Nehwal, Indian Badminton player, born in Hisar, India
- Mar 19 Tanja Tzarovska, Macedonian singer (The Passion of the Christ; Troy), and songwriter, born in Resen, Yugoslavia
- Mar 20 JJ [Jökull Júlíusson], Icelandic blues-rock singer-songwriter (Kaleo - Way Down We Go), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Mar 21 Mandy Capristo, German dance-pop singer (Monrose - "Shame"; solo - "The Way I Like It"), born in Mannheim, Germany
- Mar 23 Eugenie, Princess of York and daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, born in London
- Mar 24 Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
- Mar 26 Choi Woo-shik, South Korean-Canadian actor (Train to Busan, Parasite), born in Seoul, South Korea
- Mar 26 Xiumin [Kim Min-seok], South Korean singer and actor (Exo), born in Seoul, South Korea
- Mar 27 Kimbra [Johnson], New Zealand Grammy Award-winning pop-fusion singer, songwriter, and record producer ("Cameo Lover"; with Gotye - “Somebody That I Used to Know"), born in Hamilton, New Zealand
- Mar 27 Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer, born in Bendigo, Australia
- Mar 28 Laura Harrier, American model and actress (Spider-Man: Homecoming), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 28 Zoe Sugg [Zoella], British YouTube vlogger, born in Lacock, Wilshire
- Mar 29 Teemu Pukki, Finnish soccer striker (Finland, Schalke 04, Celtic, Brøndby, Norwich City), born in Kotka, Finland
- Mar 30 Cassie Scerbo, American actress (Sharknado), born in Long Island, New York
- Mar 30 Thomas Rhett, American singer-songwriter, born in Valdosta, Tennessee
- Mar 31 Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist, killed by the New IRA in a terrorist attack, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2019)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Dainin Katagiri, Japanese Buddhist monk, Zen teacher (abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, 1972-90), and associate of Shunryu Suzuki, dies of cancer at 62
- Mar 3 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
- Mar 3 Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
- Mar 5 Gary Merrill, American actor (Young Dr. Kildare (TV series); All About Eve), dies of a lung cancer at 74
- Mar 5 Gloria Carter Spann, US President Jimmy Carter's sister, dies of cancer at 63
- Mar 6 Joe Sewell, American Baseball HOF infielder (World Series 1920, 32; Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees; MLB record 167.7 at-bats per strikeout 1932), dies at 91
- Mar 10 Michael Stewart, British politician (Foreign Secretary 1965-66, 68-70), dies at 83
- Mar 11 Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
- Mar 12 Philippe Soupault, French writer and poet, novelist, critic, Dadaist and co-founder of the Surrealist movement, dies at 92
- Mar 12 Wallace Breem, British author (Eagle in the Snow), dies at 73
- Mar 13 Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment), commits suicide at 86
- Mar 13 Karl Münchinger, German conductor (Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, 1945-87), dies at 74
- Mar 15 Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
Tom Harmon (1919-1990)
Mar 15 American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1940, Michigan; LA Rams) and broadcaster (CBS 1950-62), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Mar 16 Ernst Bacon, American composer, dies at 91
- Mar 17 Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre], French actress and fashion model (Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), commits suicide at 62
- Mar 17 Rick Grech, British musician (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
- Mar 18 Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies of a heart attack at 36
- Mar 19 Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
- Mar 20 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
- Mar 20 Lev Yashin, Russian soccer goalkeeper (74 caps USSR; Dynamo Moscow 326 games; namesake FIFA award for best World Cup Finals GK), dies of stomach cancer at 60
- Mar 20 Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 82
- Mar 22 Alexander Chugayev, Soviet Russian composer, dies at 66
- Mar 22 Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer and engineer, dies at 62
- Mar 23 Al Sears, American jazz and R&B saxophonist (Duke Elllington Orchestra; Johnny Hodges - "Castle Rock"), dies at 80
- Mar 23 René Enriquez, Nicaraguan-American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Ray Calletano"), dies of complications from AIDS at 56
- Mar 24 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
- Mar 24 An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70 [1]
- Mar 24 Ray Goulding, American comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
- Mar 26 Halston, American fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame), dies of AIDS at 68
- Mar 26 International Chrysis, American Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
- Mar 28 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
- Mar 29 Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
- Mar 31 John Hawkes, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship singles, doubles, mixed doubles 1926), dies at 90
- Mar 31 Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies
