Historical Events
- Mar 1 14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces
- Mar 1 The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect
- Mar 3 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
- Mar 3 A 2-year-old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
- Mar 4 11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India
- Mar 4 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq
Broadchurch
Mar 4 British TV drama "Broadchurch" created by Chris Chibnall, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman premieres on ITV
Event of Interest
Mar 4 The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI
- Mar 5 The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez
- Mar 5 Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams
- Mar 6 9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru
- Mar 6 Microsoft is fined €561M ($731M USD) by the Euro Commission for failing to respect an antitrust settlement to provide options to chose an alternative web browser
- Mar 6 Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city
- Mar 7 Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature
- Mar 7 UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
- Mar 8 North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
- Mar 9 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Mar 9 Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth’s surface
- Mar 9 Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title
Election of Interest
Mar 10 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
- Mar 10 Revival of Rupert Holmes' musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", based on an unfinished work of Charles Dickens, closes at Studio 54, NYC, after 136 performances
- Mar 11 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
- Mar 11 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom
Laureus Awards
Mar 11 Laureus World Sports Awards, Municipal Theater, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Missy Franklin; Team: FC Bayern Munich
- Mar 11 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
- Mar 12 "The Flick", a play by Annie Baker opens off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in New York (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2014) [1]
- Mar 12 JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
- Mar 12 The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
- Mar 13 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
- Mar 13 Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
- Mar 13 An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil
Papal Inauguration
Mar 13 Argentine Catholic Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
- Mar 13 North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
- Mar 13 The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
- Mar 14 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
- Mar 14 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico
Event of Interest
Mar 14 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People's Republic of China
- Mar 15 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
- Mar 15 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa
The 20/20 Experience
Mar 15 Justin Timberlake releases his 3rd studio album "The 20/20 Experience" (2013 Billboard Album of the Year)
Premier Li Keqiang
Mar 15 Li Keqiang assumes office as the 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Mar 15 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
- Mar 16 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed in Rawalpindi after their bus falls down a ravine
- Mar 16 34th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Syracuse, 78-61
- Mar 16 A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens' bank deposits
- Mar 16 Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
- Mar 16 Wales routs England by a record 30-3 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to retain their Six Nation Rugby Championship; Welsh winger Alex Cuthbert scores 2 tries and fullback Leigh Halfpenny lands 4/4 penalties
- Mar 17 10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq
- Mar 17 54th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Florida, 66-63
- Mar 17 60th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Miami beats North Carolina, 87-77
- Mar 17 Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
Sports History
Mar 17 Stacy Lewis wins the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup and becomes the number one ranked woman golfer in the world
- Mar 17 Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize
- Mar 18 98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings
- Mar 18 A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Mar 18 Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria
- Mar 19 16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Mar 19 27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra, India
- Mar 19 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals
- Mar 20 First Breakthrough Prizes, world's most generous science prize worth $3 million, awarded in Mathematics, Life Sciences and Physics established by Julia and Yuri Milner
- Mar 20 Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics
- Mar 21 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
- Mar 21 24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China
- Mar 21 42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria
- Mar 21 A barter dispute gets out of control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and four mosques burnt to the ground in Myanmar
- Mar 21 At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon
- Mar 21 Martin Gould defeats Ali Carter to win the snooker 2013 Championship League
- Mar 21 The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
- Mar 22 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand
Music History
Mar 22 American rock band My Chemical Romance announce their break-up
- Mar 23 20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
- Mar 23 Chris Sharma becomes the second person to climb a 9b+ (5.15c) route with his ascent of La Dura Dura in Oliana, Spain
- Mar 23 The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49
- Mar 23 Walt Disney Company launches premium cable Disney Junior channel, with 24-hour programming for the 2-7 year old audience
- Mar 24 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
- Mar 24 25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria
- Mar 24 A series of emergency meetings in Brussels undertaken to resolve Cyprus’ financial situation
- Mar 24 Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship
Sports History
Mar 25 Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
The Way
Mar 26 Ariana Grande's first single, "The Way", is released
- Mar 27 12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize
- Mar 28 143 rebels and 20 government troop are killed in conflict in Pibor County, Sudan
- Mar 28 15 students are killed and 7 are injured after a mortar strikes Damascus University
- Mar 28 Banks in Cyprus re-open after having been closed for two weeks; the government agrees a 10 billion euro bailout deal with the EU and IMF
- Mar 28 Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
- Mar 29 10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan
- Mar 29 23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq
- Mar 29 36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Mar 29 American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai World Cup
- Mar 29 Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station
- Mar 29 UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria
Election of Interest
Mar 30 Kenya's Supreme Court declares Uhuru Kenyatta the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election
- Mar 30 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
- Mar 31 11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius
- Mar 31 14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid
- Mar 31 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
Famous Weddings
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dies from pancreatic cancer at 69
- Mar 1 Rafael Puyana, Colombian baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957), dies at 81
- Mar 1 Sammy Guillen, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests West Indies & 3 Tests New Zealand), dies at 88
- Mar 2 Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian, dies at 92
- Mar 3 Bobby Rogers, American pop and soul tenor vocalist (The Miracles - "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"), and songwriter ("Going To A Go-Go"; "The Way You Do the Things You Do"), dies from complications from diabetes at 73
- Mar 4 Fran Warren [Wolff], American big band and pop singer ("A Sunday Kind of Love"; "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)"), dies on her 87th birthday
- Mar 5 Calvin Fowler, American basketball point guard (Olympic gold 1968 co-captain; Saint Francis University), dies at 73
Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
Mar 5 President of Venezuela (1998-2013), dies from respiratory failure at 58
- Mar 6 Alvin Lee, English rocker, dies from complications from surgery at 68
- Mar 6 Sabine Bischoff, German fencer (Olympic gold 1984), dies at 54
- Mar 6 Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country artist, dies from natural causes at 77
- Mar 7 Claude King, American country music singer (Wolverton Mountain), dies at 90
- Mar 7 Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect, dies at 92
- Mar 7 Kenny Ball, English jazz musician, dies of pneumonia at 82
- Mar 7 Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as "the architect of progressive music" (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65
- Mar 12 Clive Burr, English drummer, dies from complications from multiple sclerosis at 56
- Mar 13 Ducky Detweiler, American MLB player, dies at 94
- Mar 13 Malachi Throne, American actor (It Takes a Thief), dies of ling cancer at 84
- Mar 13 Ramesh Mishra, Indian sarangi, a 3-string bowed traditional music instrument, player (Aerosmith - "Taste of India"), dies of cancer at 68
- Mar 14 Jack Greene, American country artist, dies from complications from Alzheimer's disease at 83
- Mar 14 Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier, dies at 82
- Mar 15 Booth Gardner, American politician, dies from Parkinson's disease at 76
- Mar 15 Terry Lightfoot, British clarinetist and bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen), dies at 77
- Mar 16 Bobby Smith, American pop and R&B singer (The Spinners, 1954-2013 - "Working My Way Back To You"), dies from complications of influenza and pneumonia at 76
- Mar 16 Frank Thornton, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine), dies from natural causes at 92
- Mar 17 Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch politician and Undersecretary of Defense (CDA), dies at 73
- Mar 18 Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and fighter ace, dies at 77
- Mar 19 Bud Palmer, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and sportscaster, dies at 91
- Mar 19 Harry Reems, American actor, dies from pancreatic cancer at 65
- Mar 20 James Herbert, British horror writer, dies at 69
- Mar 20 Risë Stevens [Steenberg], American mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1938-61 - "Carmen"), vocal coach, and arts administrator, dies at 99
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Mar 21 Nigerian poet and novelist (Things Fall Apart, Christmas in Biafra), dies at 82
- Mar 22 Aya Zikken, Dutch author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh), dies at 93
- Mar 22 Derek Watkins, British trumpet player and composer (The Spy Who Loved Me, Skyfall), dies of cancer at 68
- Mar 22 Gerardo Gandini, Argentinian pianist and composer (Laberynthus Johannes), dies at 76
- Mar 22 Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter (200m world record), dies from cancer at 60
- Mar 23 Barbara Donald, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader ("The Past and Tomorrows"), dies at 70
- Mar 23 David Bond, British sailor, dies at 90
- Mar 23 Virgil Trucks, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1945 Detroit Tigers; MLB All Star 1949, 54), dies at 95
- Mar 24 Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author, dies at 86
- Mar 25 Anthony Lewis, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) and author, dies from kidney and heart failure at 85
- Mar 25 Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch jazz and pop vocalist, guitarist (De Millers), and painter, dies at 91
- Mar 25 Lou Sleater, American MLB pitcher, dies from lung disease at 86
- Mar 26 Don Payne, American television and screenwriter, dies from bone cancer at 48
- Mar 26 Michael Gow, British army officer (head of British Army of the Rhine), dies at 88
- Mar 26 Yury Rudov, Soviet fencer, dies at 82
- Mar 27 Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (Olympic gold 1,500m, 5,000m, 10,000m 1952; World C'ship gold all-round 1950, 51, 52), dies from trauma due to a fall at 90
- Mar 28 Hugh McCracken, American session guitarist (Aretha Franklin; Paul McCartney; Steely Dan; Billy Joel; John Lennon), dies of luekemia at 70
- Mar 28 Richard Griffiths, British actor, dies from complications from heart surgery at 65
- Mar 28 Soraya Jiménez, Mexican weightlifter, dies from a heart attack at 70
- Mar 30 Bob Turley, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1956, 58 [MVP] New York Yankees; 3 x MLB All-Star; Cy Young Award 1958), dies from liver cancer at 82
- Mar 30 Phil Ramone [Rabinowitz], American 14-time Grammy Award-winning music producer (Burt Bacharach; Paul Simon; Billy Joel; Tony Bennett), and studio owner (co-founded A&R Recording), dies from an aortic aneurysm at 79
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