- Mar 1 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
- Mar 1 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
- Mar 2 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
- Mar 2 After suffering a hairline fracture of his right hind foot, 5-time US Horse of the Year Kelso is immediately retired; racing's all-time leading money winner with lifetime earnings of $1,977,896
Sports History
Mar 2 Chicago Black Hawks right wing Bobby Hull becomes the NHL's first 2-time 50-goal scorer when he strikes in a 5-4 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Chicago Stadium
Sports History
Mar 2 Jean Béliveau scores his 380th career NHL goal when Montreal ties Toronto, 3-3; moves him ahead of Ted Lindsay into the #3 spot all time, behind Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard
Music History
Mar 3 Canadian-American rock band "Buffalo Springfield" forms (Stephen Stills, Neil Young, et al)
Film & TV History
Mar 3 James Goldman's stage drama "The Lion in Winter", starring Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, and Christopher Walken, opens at the Ambassador Theatre, NYC; runs for 92 performances, with Harris winning a Tony Award
Event of Interest
Mar 3 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to exile in Conakry, Guinea
- Mar 3 Twister hits Jackson Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
- Mar 3 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting
- Mar 4 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
More Popular Than Jesus
Mar 4 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
- Mar 4 North Sea Gas 1st pumped ashore by BP
- Mar 5 11th Eurovision Song Contest: Udo Jurgens for Austria wins singing "Merci, Cherie" in Luxembourg
- Mar 5 13th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats NC State, 71-66
- Mar 5 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
- Mar 5 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
- Mar 5 Player reps elect Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association
- Mar 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 6 Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
- Mar 7 Leon Gluckman and Jeremy Taylor's folk music revue "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater, NYC; runs for 457 performances
- Mar 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 8 An IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Column in Dublin
Hall of Fame
Mar 8 Baseball player, manager and coach Casey Stengel elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in a surprise ceremony
Golden Boy
Mar 8 Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical adaptation of Clifford Odet's "Golden Boy", starring Sammy Davis Jr. closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 569 performances
Coup d'état
Mar 11 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
- Mar 12 Chicago Black Hawks Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
Sports History
Mar 12 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
- Mar 12 Love's 1st album released "Love"
- Mar 12 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
- Mar 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Born Free
Mar 14 British film "Born Free" based on the book "Born Free" by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers
Grammy Awards
Mar 15 8th Grammy Awards: "Taste of Honey", Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra & Barbra Streisand win
- Mar 15 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California
- Mar 16 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
Launch of Gemini 8
Mar 16 Gemini 8 launched with Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott aboard, conducts the 1st docking of two spacecraft in orbit, flight aborted after critical system failure with the crew returned safely to Earth
- Mar 17 South Africa's government bans Defense & Aid Fund
- Mar 17 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
- Mar 18 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
- Mar 18 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
- Mar 18 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
- Mar 19 "Poussé Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
- Mar 19 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky, 72-65; Miners first title in first title game
- Mar 19 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
- Mar 21 American medical drama series "Ben Casey", starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, ends a five season run on ABC-TV
- Mar 21 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
- Mar 23 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
- Mar 24 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
- Mar 25 Beatles pose for photographer Robert Whitaker with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for album cover of "Yesterday & Today", it is later pulled from circulation and replaced with a different photo
- Mar 25 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
- Mar 26 120th Grand National: Tim Norman aboard 50/1 outsider Anglo wins by 20 lengths, giving Freddie 2nd place for a second straight year
- Mar 26 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago
- Mar 26 Wales beats France, 9-8 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship
It's a Bird... It's A Plane...It's Superman
Mar 29 Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' musical "It's a Bird... It's A Plane...It's Superman" opens at Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 129 performances
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 29 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Color Me Barbra
Mar 30 "Color Me Barbra", Barbra Streisand's second TV special and the first in color, premieres on CBS
- Mar 31 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
Election of Interest
Mar 31 Labour Party under Harold Wilson win British parliamentary election
- Mar 31 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
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