Cricket Record
Mar 1 21-year-old West Indian cricket all-rounder Garfield Sobers turns his maiden Test century into a world record 365no in the Windies' 3rd Test win over Pakistan in Kingston, Jamaica; Sobers and Conrad Hunte (260) 446 run partnership for 2nd wicket
- Mar 1 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia
- Mar 2 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
- Mar 2 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
- Mar 3 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
- Mar 3 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
- Mar 5 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
- Mar 5 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Mar 7 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
- Mar 8 5th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats North Carolina, 86-74
- Mar 8 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
Event of Interest
Mar 8 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
- Mar 9 Detroit Pistons forward George Yardley III scores 26 points in 111-90 defeat to Syracuse Nationals; 1st NBA player to score 2,000 points in a season
- Mar 11 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule
- Mar 11 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
- Mar 12 3rd Eurovision Song Contest: Andre Claveau for France wins singing "Dors, mon amour" in Hilversum
- Mar 12 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
- Mar 13 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
- Mar 14 Recording Industry Association of American created
- Mar 14 RIAA certifies 1st gold record - Perry Como's single "Catch A Falling Star"
- Mar 14 South Africa's government prohibits the African National Congress
- Mar 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 14 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- Mar 15 "Body Beautiful" musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
- Mar 15 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title
- Mar 15 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
NBA Record
Mar 15 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game
- Mar 15 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
- Mar 15 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test in Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (of 36 total for 1958)
- Mar 16 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 5 strokes ahead of Betty Dodd
- Mar 17 US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
- Mar 18 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers announce their mascot and clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
Event of Interest
Mar 19 Britain's first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's, London
- Mar 19 Garfield Sobers completes a century in each innings for WI vs. Pakistan
- Mar 20 50 inches of snow falls across the Mason–Dixon line
- Mar 20 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
- Mar 20 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
- Mar 21 Dr. Ernest Lawrence, nuclear scientist and Nobel laureate, receives first West Point Sylvanus Thayer Award, presented to an outstanding US citizen whose service in the national interest exemplifies devotion to ideals of West Point motto: "Duty, Honor, Country"
- Mar 21 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
Sports History
Mar 22 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle's future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
- Mar 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Elvis Presley in the Army
Mar 24 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)
Sports History
Mar 25 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
- Mar 25 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Mar 26 30th Academy Awards-"The Bridge on the River Kwai" wins Best Picture, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness win Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively
- Mar 26 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris
- Mar 26 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
- Mar 27 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
- Mar 27 Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
Event of Interest
Mar 27 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
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