Chiang Kai-shek Resumes Presidency
Mar 1 Chiang Kai-shek resumes the presidency of the Republic of China on Taiwan
Fuchs Sentenced
Mar 1 Klaus Fuchs sentenced in London to 14 years for atomic espionage
- Mar 1 USSR issues golden roubles
- Mar 3 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
- Mar 6 Silly Putty goes on sale in the US
- Mar 7 Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
- Mar 7 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
- Mar 7 Men's Figure Skating World Championship in London won by Dick Button (USA)
- Mar 8 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
Sutton Robs Manufacturers Bank
Mar 9 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
- Mar 12 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
GM's Record Earnings
Mar 13 General Motors Corporation reports record net earnings of $656,434,232
- Mar 14 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
- Mar 15 Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize winning opera "The Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 269 performances
- Mar 15 NYC hires Dr Wallace E. Howell as its official "rainmaker" to help end a crippling water shortage for the princely sum of $100 a day [1]
- Mar 16 1st annual National Book Awards
Belgian Constitutional Crisis
Mar 17 Belgian government of Gaston Eyskens resigns due to constitutional crisis
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Win
Mar 19 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by 9 strokes from amateur Betsy Rawls
- Mar 23 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
22nd Academy Awards
Mar 23 22nd Academy Awards: "All The King's Men", Broderick Crawford and Olivia De Havilland win
- Mar 23 Actress Frances Farmer is released from Western State Hospital
- Mar 23 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greek government
- Mar 23 UN World Meteorological Org established
- Mar 24 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
- Mar 24 US Mens Figure Skating Championship won by Dick Button
- Mar 25 104th Grand National: Jimmy Power wins aboard 10/1 Irish co-favourite Freebooter; estimated 500,00 in attendance including Royal Family
- Mar 25 Wales outclasses France, 21-0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown
Erroll Garner Concert
Mar 27 Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs a solo recital at Cleveland Music Hall, a venue for traditionally classical concerts, in Cleveland, Ohio
- Mar 27 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
- Mar 27 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 28 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley, 71-68; City College of NY first to win NCAA & National Invitational Basketball in same year
- Mar 30 Bell Telephone Laboratories announces invention of the phototransistor in Murray Hill, New Jersey
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