What Happened in March 1991

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• Mar 1 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
• Mar 2 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
• Mar 2 "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
• Mar 2 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
• Mar 2 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest

• Mar 2 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
• Mar 2 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed
• Mar 3 Brooke Allen's stage drama "The Big Love", a one-woman show starring Tracey Ullman, opens at Plymouth Theater, NYC; runs for 41 performances

• Mar 3 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR

• Mar 3 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
• Mar 3 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
• Mar 3 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
• Mar 3 United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
• Mar 4 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
• Mar 4 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
• Mar 5 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
• Mar 5 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games

• Mar 7 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
• Mar 8 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured
• Mar 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 9 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
• Mar 9 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
• Mar 9 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
• Mar 10 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
• Mar 10 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
• Mar 10 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
• Mar 10 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
• Mar 10 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
• Mar 10 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
• Mar 10 Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)

• Mar 11 John Smith, US amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award

• Mar 12 OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
• Mar 13 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
• Mar 13 Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
• Mar 14 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
• Mar 14 English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
• Mar 14 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
• Mar 14 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev

• Mar 15 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
• Mar 15 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
• Mar 16 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown; fullback Simon Hodgkinson 4 penalties and a conversion
• Mar 16 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
• Mar 16 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
• Mar 16 NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)

• Mar 17 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
• Mar 17 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade
• Mar 17 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC
• Mar 17 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%

• Mar 18 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games

• Mar 19 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
• Mar 19 St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season

• Mar 20 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
• Mar 20 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
• Mar 21 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
• Mar 21 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
• Mar 21 Quebec Nordiques goaltender Ron Tugnutt sets NHL modern-day record for most saves in a regular season non-loss game (70 of 73 shots in 3-3 tie with the Boston Bruins

• Mar 21 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
• Mar 22 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
• Mar 22 NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
• Mar 22 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
• Mar 23 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
• Mar 23 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
• Mar 23 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
• Mar 24 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins

• Mar 24 Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait
• Mar 24 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
• Mar 24 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3

• Mar 25 Country singer Reba McEntire performs as scheduled at the Academy Awards ceremony, just 9 days after nearly her entire band dies in a plane crash
• Mar 25 Nigerian crude becomes competitive in US Gulf Coast as Nigeria cuts crude prices
• Mar 26 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
• Mar 26 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London

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• Mar 4 George Chigova, Zimbabwean soccer goalkeeper (32 caps; Polokwane City FC, SuperSport United FC), born in Harare, Zimbabwe (d. 2023)
• Mar 5 Daniil Trifonov, Russian Grammy Award-winning classical pianist, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union (now Russia)
• Mar 6 Tyler, the Creator [Tyler Gregory Okonma], American rapper and record producer (Flower Boy, Igor), born in Ladera Heights, California
• Mar 8 Devon Werkheiser, American actor
• Mar 11 Poonam Pandey, Indian actress, born in Kanpur, India
• Mar 11 Tammy Beaumont, English cricket batter (Test HS 208 v Aus 2023 highest by Englishwoman in Test cricket; Kent CC), born in Dover, England
• Mar 12 Lauren Holt, American comedian (Saturday Night Live), born in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Mar 15 Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
• Mar 16 Wolfgang Van Halen, American rock bassist son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli, born in Santa Monica, California
• Mar 17 Cordarrelle Patterson 'The Flash', American NFL player (Atlanta Falcons), born in Rock Hill, South Carolina
• Mar 18 J.T. Realmuto, American MLB baseball catcher, 2014-present, 3X All-Star (Florida Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Del City, Oklahoma

• Mar 22 Dominique Fishback, American actress (Swarm), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Mar 26 Ari Lennox, American R&B singer (Revenge of the Dreamers), born in Washington D.C.
• Mar 26 Ramy Youssef, American comedian, writer and director (Ramy), born in New York City
• Mar 28 Amy Bruckner, American child actress, born in Conifer, Colorado

• Mar 1 Frank Esler-Smith, English-Australian rock keyboardist (Air Supply), dies at 42
• Mar 1 Katharine Blake, South African-born British actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
• Mar 1 Louis Saguer, German born French composer (Lili Merveille), dies at 83
• Mar 1 Scott Huston, American composer, dies at 74
• Mar 2 Clark Mollenhoff, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
• Mar 2 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
• Mar 2 Serge Gainsbourg [Lucien Ginsburg], French singer-songwriter, record producer ("Je t'aime... moi non plus"; "Requiem pour un twister"), and actor, dies of a heart attack at 62 [1]
• Mar 3 Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), dies at 95 of pneumonia
• Mar 3 Clara Eggink, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
• Mar 3 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1935; 18 PGA Tour titles), dies at 79
• Mar 3 William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atomic bomb), dies at 81
• Mar 4 Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
• Mar 5 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
• Mar 5 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
• Mar 7 Greta Schoon, German poet, and kindergarten teacher, dies at 81

• Mar 8 John Bellairs, American sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom), dies of cardiovascular disease at 53
• Mar 9 Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• Mar 9 Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Japanese composer and educator, dies at 84
• Mar 12 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92

• Mar 13 Cor Witschge, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 65
• Mar 13 James "Jimmy" McPartland, American cornetist and musician (Magic Horn), dies of cancer at 83 [1]
• Mar 14 Doc Pomus [Jerome Solon Felder], American blues singer and songwriter ("Save the Last Dance For Me"; "His Latest Flame"; "Viva Las Vegas"), dies of ling cancer at 65
• Mar 14 Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (Little Shop of Horrors; The Little Mermaid), dies of AIDS-related complications at 40
• Mar 14 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
• Mar 14 Margery Sharp, English children's author (The Rescuers), dies at 86
• Mar 14 Robert Maroff, American actor (Taxi Driver), dies at 57
• Mar 15 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
• Mar 16 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
• Mar 16 Jan H. van Roijen, Dutch ambassador to the U.S. and Netherlands Foreign Minister, dies at 85
• Mar 18 Jack McCoy, American radio and TV personality (Live Like a Millionaire), dies at 72
• Mar 18 Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
• Mar 19 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
• Mar 19 Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
• Mar 19 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
• Mar 20 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls to his death out of 53rd floor window at 5
• Mar 21 Leo Fender, American inventor, and electric guitar designer (Telecaster; Stratocaster; Precision Bass), dies from Parkinson's disease complications at 81
• Mar 22 Dave Guard, American singer, songwriter and arranger (Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"), dies of cancer at 56
• Mar 22 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
• Mar 22 Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• Mar 22 Paul Engle, American poet and writer (Worm Earth, American Song), dies at 82
• Mar 23 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
• Mar 23 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
• Mar 23 Fons Jansen, Dutch cabaret comedian, writer, and television personality (Farce Majeure), dies of lung cancer at 65
• Mar 23 Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
• Mar 23 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
• Mar 24 Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
• Mar 25 Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
• Mar 25 Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
• Mar 25 Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
• Mar 27 Aldo Ray [Da Re], American actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret), dies of cancer at 64
• Mar 27 Elinor Remick Warren, American concert pianist and composer, dies at 91
• Mar 27 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
• Mar 27 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
• Mar 28 Carlos Montalbán, Mexican-American character actor (Bananas), dies at 86
• Mar 29 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of a brain tumor at 40
• Mar 29 Matt Bennett, American actor (Hickey & Boggs; The Unholy Rollers), dies of a brain tumor at 57
• Mar 30 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
• Mar 31 John Carter, American jazz clarinetist (Roots & Folklore), dies at 61