Academy of Country Music Awards
Mar 1 11th Academy of Country Music Awards: Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn win
PGA Players Championship
Mar 1 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Inverrary CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his second TPC title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead
- Mar 2 Musical revue featuring song from the Harlem Renaissance "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater, NYC; runs for 766 performances
- Mar 2 Walt Disney World logs its 50 millionth guest
- Mar 3 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Mar 3 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
People's Choice Awards
Mar 4 2nd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV)
- Mar 4 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
- Mar 4 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
- Mar 5 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
- Mar 6 23rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62
- Mar 6 European Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
- Mar 6 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
- Mar 6 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
Sports History
Mar 6 In his 10th title defense, WBA light welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia is beaten by 17-year-old Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez in a 15-round split decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Benitez youngest ever world champion
- Mar 6 Revival of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", closes at the Playhouse Theatre, NYC, after 23 performances
- Mar 6 Wales clinch their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship title, 7th Grand Slam and 13th Triple Crown with a 19-13 win over France at the National Stadium, Cardiff
Sports History
Mar 6 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill (19)
Sports History
Mar 14 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
- Mar 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 15 Failed coup in Niger
Harold Wilson Resigns
Mar 16 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation
- Mar 17 4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon
- Mar 17 Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
- Mar 17 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
- Mar 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historic Publication
Mar 20 American publishing heiress Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery for her part in a 1974 California heist
- Mar 20 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
- Mar 23 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
Coup d'état
Mar 24 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla
- Mar 25 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
Music History
Mar 25 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater, later transferring to the Lunt-Fontaine, NYC; runs for 377 performances
Music History
Mar 25 Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, and Sherman Yellen's musical "Rex", starring Nicol Williamson and Glenn Close, opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater, NYC; runs for 48 performances
- Mar 26 AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
Event of Interest
Mar 26 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
- Mar 26 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
- Mar 27 Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
- Mar 28 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64 at Pennsylvania State University
- Mar 29 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan, 86-68; first time 2 teams from same conference (Big Ten) play in title game
Academy Awards
Mar 29 48th Academy Awards: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", its stars Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher, and director Miloš Forman win
- Mar 29 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State University students in 1970
- Mar 30 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
- Mar 31 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Jazz, 110-101 in New Orleans to clinch club's first ever NBA playoff berth
- Mar 31 NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
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