- Mar 1 Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch
- Mar 2 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
- Mar 2 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
- Mar 4 Piet Van de Pol of the Netherlands crowned world champion in billiards
- Mar 4 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
- Mar 5 The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
- Mar 8 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 8 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
- Mar 9 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Mar 9 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
- Mar 12 Ireland retains Five Nations Rugby Championship & Triple Crown with a 5-0 win over Wales at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea
- Mar 13 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
- Mar 13 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
- Mar 15 Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
- Mar 15 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Mar 15 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
6th Golden Globes
Mar 16 6th Golden Globes: Johnny Belinda, Laurence Olivier, & Jane Wyman win
Peggy Kirk Wins LPGA
Mar 20 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Amateur Peggy Kirk wins her only major title by 2 strokes from Patty Berg and Dorothy Kirby
21st Academy Awards
Mar 24 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win, Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win awards
- Mar 24 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad
- Mar 25 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union
- Mar 26 103rd Grand National: Leo McMorrow aboard 66/1 outsider Russian Hero wins by a comfortable 8 lengths ahead of Roimond
- Mar 26 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State, 46-36; Wildcats' back-to-back titles; center Alex Groza MOP
- Mar 28 English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term "Big Bang" in a BBC radio talk while actually arguing for the alternative "steady-state" theory [1]
- Mar 29 Turkey recognizes Israel
- Mar 30 Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO
- Mar 31 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
- Mar 31 RCA Victor of Camden, New Jersey, introduces the 45 RPM record player and the 7-inch single, a vinyl disc more durable than the 78 RPM shellac; initial releases include: Eddy Arnold's "Texarkana Baby"; Spade Cooley's "Spanish Fandango"; Arthur Crudup's "Crudup's After Hours"; and Saul Meisel's "A Klein Melamedl"
Troubled Island
Mar 31 William Grant Still's opera "Troubled Island" with libretto by Langston Hughes and Verna Arvey, premieres at the New York City Opera; 1st grand opera composed by an African American produced by a major company
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