- Mar 1 Authorities near Waco, Texas, negotiate (unsuccessfully) with Branch Davidians
- Mar 1 New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie 'The Mighty Ducks'
Sports History
Mar 1 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is reinstated as general partner of the team; banned because of his relationship with convicted gambler Howie Spira
Sports History
Mar 1 Pavel Bure scores twice to become the first player in Vancouver's 23 year history to record 50 goals in an NHL season as Canucks beat the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2 in Hamilton
Film & TV History
Mar 2 Actress Claudette Colbert suffers a stroke at 89
Sports History
Mar 2 Mario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers
Music Concert
Mar 2 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, James Taylor, Bryan Adams, Tom Jones, George Michael, and Herb Alpert
- Mar 2 Winnipeg Jets Finnish right wing Teemu Selänne breaks NHL record for goals by a rookie with a hat-trick in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Quebec Nordiques; passes Mike Bossy's mark of 52
- Mar 3 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
- Mar 4 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
ESPY Awards
Mar 4 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win
Film & TV History
Mar 4 Katharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion
Sports History
Mar 5 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
- Mar 5 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
- Mar 5 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
- Mar 7 Diff'rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
- Mar 8 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 9 7th Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige win
- Mar 9 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
- Mar 10 Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
Sports History
Mar 11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
Election of Interest
Mar 13 Australian Federal elections: Australian Labor Party headed by Paul Keating re-elected for a fifth term
- Mar 13 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east USA
- Mar 14 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
- Mar 14 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
- Mar 14 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
- Mar 14 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
- Mar 14 David Henry Hwang's stage drama. "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater, NYC, after 8 previews, before officially opening
Conversations with My Father
Mar 14 Herb Gardner's stage drama "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub, closes at Royale Theatre, NYC, after 462 performances and a Tony Award
- Mar 14 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
Theatrical Finale
Mar 14 Revival of George Bernard Shaw's stage drama "Saint Joan" closes at the Lyceum Theater, NYC, after 49 performances
- Mar 14 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
- Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Ukrainian Oksana Baiul
- Mar 15 In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death
- Mar 15 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
People's Choice Awards
Mar 17 19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
- Mar 17 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
- Mar 18 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
- Mar 18 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
The Sisters Rosensweig
Mar 18 Wendy Wasserstein's stage play "The Sisters Rosensweig", starring Madeline Kahn, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC for 556 performances
- Mar 19 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
- Mar 19 Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
- Mar 19 US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
World Record
Mar 20 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
- Mar 20 France beats Wales, 26-10 at Parc des Princes, Paris for it's 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 20 IRA-bomb kills 3-year-old in Warrington, England
Beatification
Mar 21 Pope John Paul II beatifies Duns Scotus, a philosopher-theologian of the Middle Ages
- Mar 21 South Africa White Wolves kill 5-year-old black girl
Hall of Fame
Mar 22 André the Giant's induction into inaugural WWE Hall of Fame is announced; no ceremony takes place and he is inducted posthumously
Appointment of Interest
Mar 27 Jiang Zemin appointed President of the People's Republic of China
- Mar 28 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Shining Through" wins
- Mar 28 Conservatives win French parliamentary election
- Mar 28 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Helen Alfredsson of Sweden wins her only major title, 2 strokes ahead of 3 runners-up; first non-American to win the event as a major
PGA Players Championship
Mar 28 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Nick Price of Zimbabwe sets a scoring record of 270 (−18) to finish 5 strokes ahead of Germany's Bernhard Langer
- Mar 28 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
Academy Awards
Mar 29 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
Academy Awards
Mar 29 Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her AIDS/HIV activism at 65th Academy Awards
- Mar 29 French government of Édouard Balladur forms
- Mar 29 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
- Mar 30 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
- Mar 30 Lanford Wilson's play "Redwood Curtain", starring Jeff Daniels, opens at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; runs for 40 performances
- Mar 30 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
- Mar 30 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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