Sports History
Mar 1 Quebec's Peter Šťastný becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in an 8-4 Nordiques' loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres
- Mar 2 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
Sports History
Mar 2 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season
- Mar 2 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
- Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history
Sports History
Mar 2 The first million dollar purse for a handicap race is won by British bred 5-year old Greinton with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard taking out the $1,359,500 Santa Anita Handicap
Sports History
Mar 4 Allan Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
- Mar 5 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national colour newspaper); it folded in 1995
- Mar 6 After losing all appeals, American rock singer David Crosby begins serving 5 year sentence for drug and weapons convictions in Texas state prison
- Mar 6 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London
- Mar 6 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
- Mar 7 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
NHL Record
Mar 7 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
- Mar 8 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
- Mar 8 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
- Mar 8 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69
- Mar 8 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
Sports History
Mar 8 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
Living Doll
Mar 8 The Young Ones and Cliff Richard release new version of single "Living Doll" for Comic Relief charity
- Mar 9 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
- Mar 9 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67
NHL Record
Mar 9 Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils
- Mar 9 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
- Mar 9 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 10 Ernie Lombardi (NL MVP in 1938) and Bobby Doerr, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Mar 11 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC
- Mar 11 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
Sports History
Mar 11 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
- Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
- Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
People's Choice Awards
Mar 13 12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV)
- Mar 13 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
- Mar 13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
- Mar 14 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
- Mar 15 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
- Mar 15 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
- Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
- Mar 18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
- Mar 18 US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
- Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
Event of Interest
Mar 20 Jacques Chirac forms French government
- Mar 20 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
- Mar 21 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
- Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
- Mar 22 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
- Mar 22 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
- Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
- Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
- Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 22 Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title
- Mar 22 Kania skates ladies' world record 1500m (1:59.30)
- Mar 22 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
- Mar 23 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Rambo: First Blood Part II" wins
- Mar 23 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC
Academy Awards
Mar 24 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
Sports History
Mar 24 Men's International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors' 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boca Raton, Florida in February
- Mar 24 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
- Mar 24 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
- Mar 24 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
Sports History
Mar 25 Canadian Kurt Browning becomes the 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump
Sports History
Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
- Mar 25 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
Music History
Mar 26 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
- Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
- Mar 28 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India
- Mar 28 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
- Mar 30 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
- Mar 30 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)
- Mar 30 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
- Mar 31 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
- Mar 31 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
- Mar 31 Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes, killing 167
- Mar 31 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
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