Lethal Weapon
Mar 6 First "Lethal Weapon" film starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, directed by Richard Donner is released
- Mar 7 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 7 Mike Tyson beats James 'Bonecrusher' Smith by unanimous decision in 12 rounds in Las Vegas for WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles
- Mar 8 "A Team" last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
- Mar 8 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
- Mar 8 28th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats LSU, 69-62
- Mar 8 34th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 68-67
- Mar 8 8th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 69-59
- Mar 8 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
- Mar 8 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
- Mar 8 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
- Mar 9 Chrysler Corp offers to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
- Mar 10 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
Sports History
Mar 12 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
- Mar 12 Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
- Mar 12 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
- Mar 12 Musical "Les Misérables" opens on Broadway at The Broadway Theatre and runs for 4000+ performances
- Mar 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
- Mar 13 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
Event of Interest
Mar 13 John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family, is acquitted of racketeering
- Mar 13 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
People's Choice Awards
Mar 14 13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)
Sports History
Mar 14 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
- Mar 14 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
- Mar 14 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
- Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
- Mar 15 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
- Mar 15 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
- Mar 15 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
Musical Finale
Mar 15 Revival of Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields' musical "Sweet Charity" starring Debbie Allen and Bebe Neuwirth, closes at the Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 368 performances and 4 Tony Award wins
- Mar 15 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
- Mar 17 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
Cricket History
Mar 17 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
- Mar 18 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns are Jessica and Matthew
- Mar 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Event of Interest
Mar 19 American televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid rape accusation by his secretary, Jessica Hahn
World Record
Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
- Mar 19 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
- Mar 19 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
World Record
Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
- Mar 20 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
- Mar 20 NASA launches Palapa B2P
- Mar 20 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
- Mar 20 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
- Mar 20 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies' world record 5 km (7:20.36)
- Mar 21 France beats Ireland, 19-13 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin the clinch the outright Five Nations Rugby Championship for the 8th time and 4th Grand Slam title
- Mar 21 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
Event of Interest
Mar 23 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party
- Mar 23 Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
- Mar 23 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 24 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
- Mar 24 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
- Mar 25 The US Supreme Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act 1964
Event of Interest
Mar 26 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres at the 46th Street Theatre, New York City in NYC; wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 4 Tony and 3 Drama desk Awards
- Mar 26 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
- Mar 26 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit
- Mar 26 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)
Victory in Battle
Mar 27 Chadian President Hissène Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau in Chad
- Mar 28 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
- Mar 29 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44; Lady Vols guard Tonya Edwards MOP
- Mar 29 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Howard the Duck" wins
- Mar 29 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sandy Lyle of Scotland defeats Jeff Sluman on the 3rd hole of a sudden-death playoff to become the first international player to win the title
WrestleMania
Mar 29 WrestleMania III: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI (93,173): Hulk Hogan successfully defends WWF Heavyweight title against André the Giant
Election of Interest
Mar 29 Yitzḥak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Likud Party
Academy Awards
Mar 30 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
Event of Interest
Mar 30 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record 22.5 million pounds ($39.7 million)
- Mar 31 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse, 74-73; Hoosiers' guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds, intercepts full court pass at the last second
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