Historical Events
- Mar 1 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
- Mar 1 The Constitution of Finland is rewritten
Sports History
Mar 2 America's Cup, Auckland: Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Prada Challenge by 0.48s for a 5-0 series sweep; NZ only the 2nd country in 150 years to successfully defend the Cup
Event of Interest
Mar 2 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges
- Mar 2 St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road, with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta; tie mark set by Buffalo 1983-84
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 4 14th Soul Train Music Awards: Prince, Whitney Houston, DMX & Mary J. Blige win
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 6 15th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Eric Clapton; Earth, Wind, and Fire; Lovin' Spoonful; The Moonglows; Bonnie Raitt; James Taylor; Nat King Cole; Billie Holiday; Hal Blaine; "King" Curtis; James Jamerson; Scotty Moore; Earl Palmer; and Clive Davis
Sports History
Mar 6 Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche
- Mar 10 16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
- Mar 10 NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
- Mar 11 21st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Connecticut, 80-70
- Mar 12 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
- Mar 12 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
- Mar 17 The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult
Sports History
Mar 18 England clinch inaugural Six Nations Rugby Championship with 59-12 thrashing of Italy at Stadio Flaminio, Rome; England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson kicks 7 goals and winger Austin Healey scores 3 tries
- Mar 20 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead
Papal Visit
Mar 20 Pope John Paul II visits Holy Land - Jordan, Israel, Palestine
- Mar 21 NSYNC release their 4th studio album “No Strings Attached” (2000 Billboard Album of the Year)
- Mar 25 20th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Wild Wild West" wins
Academy Awards
Mar 26 72nd Academy Awards: "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
Golf Major
Mar 26 Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Karrie Webb of Australia wins the first of her 2 titles in this event, 10 strokes ahead of defending champion Dottie Pepper
PGA Players Championship
Mar 27 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 1983 champion Hal Sutton leads wire-to-wire to win by a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods
- Mar 27 Phillips explosion kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
- Mar 28 A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
Knighthood
Mar 30 Richard Branson is knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales for "services to entrepreneurship" at Buckingham Palace, London
Famous Birthdays
Khaby Lame (24 years old)
Mar 9 Senegalese-Italian social media personality (most-followed user on TikTok), born in Dakar, Senegal
- Mar 20 Hyunjin [Hwang Hyun-jin], South Korean dancer and K-pop rapper (Stray Kids - "Grow Up"), born in Seoul, South Korea
- Mar 21 Jace Norman, American actor (Henry Danger), born in Corrales, New Mexico
- Mar 25 Sha’Carri Richardson, American sprinter (100m world champion 2023), born in Dallas, Texas
- Mar 27 Halle Bailey, American R&B singer (Chloe X Halle - Ungodly Hour), and actress (Grown-ish; The Little Mermaid (2023)), born in Atlanta, Georgia
Famous Weddings
- Mar 4 "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38)
Vince Gill
Mar 10 Country singer Vince Gill (42) weds christian pop singer Amy Grant (39) in Nashville, Tennessee
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (Olympic gold team 1998; World C'ship gold 1993, 94, 87), dies of metastatic adenocarcinoma at 36
- Mar 3 Toni Ortelli, Italian composer ("La Montanara" (The Song of the Mountains), conductor, and alpinist, dies at 95
- Mar 5 Lolo Ferrari [Eve Valois], French adult actress and dancer, dies from an overdose of prescription drugs at 37
- Mar 6 Chris Balderstone, English cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976), dies at 59
- Mar 6 John Colicos, Canadian actor (Battlestar Galactica), dies of a heart attack at 71
- Mar 7 Charles Gray, British actor (Clay-Rawhide, Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), dies at 71
- Mar 7 Edward H. Levi, American law professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), dies at 88
- Mar 7 Pee Wee King [Julius Frank Kuczynski], American country singer, accordionist, and songwriter ("Tennesee Waltz"; "Slow Poke"), dies of a heart attack at 84
- Mar 9 Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
- Mar 10 John Sladek, American sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs), dies at 62
- Mar 11 Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (Olympic gold individual, team, horse vault, 2 x bronze 1936; silver 1952), dies at 87
- Mar 12 Mack Robinson, American 200m dash (Olympic silver 1932), dies at 85
- Mar 15 Robert Welch, English designer, silversmith (Robert Welch flatware), dies at 70
- Mar 16 Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard, dies at 79
- Mar 16 Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima, dies at 81
- Mar 18 Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
- Mar 20 Gene Eugene [Andrusco], Canadian-American actor, singer-songwriter (Adam Again; Lost Dogs), and record producer, dies of a brain aneurysm at 38
- Mar 20 Vivian Fine, American composer (Women in the Garden), dies after a car accident at 86
- Mar 23 Dick van Niehoff, Dutch pop vocalist (Fouryo), dies at 62
- Mar 24 Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (Snap Your Fingers), dies at 74
- Mar 25 Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
- Mar 26 Alex Comfort, English author (The Joy of Sex), dies at 80
- Mar 27 Ian Dury, English rock musician (The Blockheads) and actor (Judge Dredd), dies at 57
- Mar 28 Albert "Ab" Abspoel, Dutch actor and director (Surprise Attack, Elevator), dies at 74
- Mar 28 Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
- Mar 30 Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (Little Carib Theatre), dies at 84
