Lie
Mar 1 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
- Mar 1 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at West Allis, Wisconsin, US, winning her first of four titles
- Mar 1 End of US commercial whale hunting
- Mar 1 Kreisky's Social Democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
- Mar 1 Minnesota coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history, when he plays in the North Stars' 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs; remains in role for final month of the season
- Mar 2 American Airlines begins their first service using a Boeing 747, between New York's JFK International Airport and Los Angeles International
Ladies of the Canyon
Mar 2 Reprise Records releases "Ladies of the Canyon", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 3rd studio album
- Mar 2 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
- Mar 2 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic
- Mar 4 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost
- Mar 4 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
- Mar 4 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
Airport
Mar 5 "Airport" based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released
- Mar 5 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
- Mar 5 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
- Mar 5 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
- Mar 5 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
- Mar 6 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
- Mar 6 Beatles release single "Let it Be" in UK
- Mar 7 17th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats South Carolina, 42-39 (2 OT)
- Mar 7 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
- Mar 7 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
- Mar 7 Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
- Mar 7 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
- Mar 7 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Mar 8 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
The Singer
Mar 10 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and "I Can Do It"
- Mar 10 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection
- Mar 10 South Africa cricket team complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia in South Africa, in the country's last official international cricket test for 22 years
Grammy Awards
Mar 11 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius; Crosby Stills & Nash; Peggy Lee win
- Mar 11 Iraqi Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
- Mar 12 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
- Mar 13 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
- Mar 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
- Mar 13 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
- Mar 15 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
- Mar 15 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Purlie", based on Ossie Davis' "Purlie Victorious", opens at the Broadway Theater, NYC; runs for 689 performances
- Mar 16 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University press co-publish The Old Testament of the New English Bible, and Complete New English Bible, incorporating the New Testament first published in 1961
- Mar 16 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, Indiana (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 17 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
- Mar 17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
- Mar 18 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, Prince Sihanuk flees
- Mar 18 Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland
- Mar 18 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) suspends broadcasting
- Mar 18 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
- Mar 18 Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history
- Mar 19 W German chancellor & E German premier meet
- Mar 21 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing "All Kinds of Everything" in Amsterdam
- Mar 21 1st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
- Mar 21 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville, 80-69; Bruins' 4th straight title under coach John Wooden
- Mar 21 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
- Mar 22 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
Hello Darlin'
Mar 23 "Hello Darlin'" single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year, 1970)
- Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 24 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
- Mar 25 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
- Mar 26 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
- Mar 26 Folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981
- Mar 26 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made San Francisco city landmark
Minnie's Boys
Mar 26 Musical "Minnie's Boys", starring Shelley Winters as the mother of the Marx Brothers, and Drama Desk Award winner Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho, opens at the Imperial Theater, New York City; runs for 80 performances
- Mar 26 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
Sentimental Journey
Mar 27 Ringo Starr releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey", a collection of pre-rock standards
- Mar 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Mar 28 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz Turkey
Look to the Lilies
Mar 29 Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's musical "Look to the Lilies", based on the novel and film "Lilies of the Field", starring Shirley Booth and Al Freeman, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 25 performances
- Mar 29 Manchester City of England win 10th European Cup Winner's Cup against Górnik Zabrze of Poland 2-1 in Vienna
- Mar 30 American television soap opera "Another World in Somerset" premieres on NBC, runs until 1976
Bitches Brew
Mar 30 Columbia Records releases jazz artist Miles Davis's influential double album "Bitches Brew"; it becomes his highest charting title, wins a Grammy, and earns him his 1st gold record
Applause
Mar 30 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause", an adaptation of the 1950 film "All About Eve", starring Lauren Bacall, opens at the Palace Theatre, NYC; runs for 896 performances, and wins 4 Tony and 3 Drama Desk Awards
- Mar 30 USSR wins its 8th straight Ice Hockey World Championship, in Stockholm, Sweden; 10th overall win
- Mar 31 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
- Mar 31 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
- Mar 31 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
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