Grammy Awards
Mar 1 37th Grammy Awards: "All I Want to Do" by Sheryl Crow; "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen win
- Mar 1 Belgium ends military conscription
- Mar 1 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
- Mar 1 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
- Mar 1 Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
- Mar 1 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol resigns
- Mar 2 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
- Mar 2 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
- Mar 2 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
- Mar 2 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
- Mar 2 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
- Mar 4 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
- Mar 4 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 4 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
- Mar 4 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
- Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
People's Choice Awards
Mar 5 21st People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Jodie Foster win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Barr win (TV)
- Mar 5 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
- Mar 5 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
Film & TV History
Mar 6 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
- Mar 6 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
- Mar 6 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
- Mar 7 NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
- Mar 7 US dollar worth record 1.5330 Dutch guilders
- Mar 8 -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
- Mar 8 -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
- Mar 8 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
- Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Mar 9 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
- Mar 9 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
- Mar 10 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
- Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
- Mar 11 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
- Mar 11 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Sinn Féin party leader Gerry Adams arrives in the US
- Mar 11 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
- Mar 12 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
- Mar 12 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
- Mar 12 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
- Mar 12 Congress party loses India national election
- Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
- Mar 12 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
- Mar 12 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
Cricket History
Mar 12 West Indies cricketer Brian Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
- Mar 12 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
Event of Interest
Mar 12 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 13 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
- Mar 13 Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
- Mar 13 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
- Mar 13 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
- Mar 14 1st time 13 people in space
- Mar 16 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
- Mar 16 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment of US Constitution [1]
- Mar 16 World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
- Mar 17 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
- Mar 17 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 17 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
- Mar 18 In a final round title decider, England beats Scotland, 24-12 at Twickenham to claim the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
Sports History
Mar 18 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
- Mar 18 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
World Record
Mar 19 American Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
- Mar 19 Arizona begins using new telephone area code 520, outside of Phoenix
- Mar 19 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
- Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins NBA Chicago Bulls after 17 months trying a career in baseball; he scores 19 poimts in 103-96 loss to the Pacers in Indianapolis
- Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
- Mar 19 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
- Mar 19 Revival of Anton Chekov's stage drama "Uncle Vanya" closes at the Circle in the Square Theater, NYC, after 29 performances
- Mar 19 Revival of Brien Friel's stage drama "Translations", starring Brian Dennehy, opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
Baby It's You
Mar 20 Beatles release single, a cover of Shirelles song, "Baby It's You" (written by Burt Bacharach & Mack David), with late John Lennon as lead singer; 1st Fab Four single in nearly 10 years
- Mar 20 Dow-Jones hits record 4083.68
- Mar 20 Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000
Film & TV History
Mar 21 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
How to Succeed...
Mar 23 Revival of Frank Loesser's musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 548 performances
Sports History
Mar 25 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
- Mar 26 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
- Mar 26 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
- Mar 26 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Color of Night" wins
- Mar 26 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
- Mar 26 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory
PGA Players Championship
Mar 26 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Lee Janzen wins by a stroke ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany
- Mar 26 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
Academy Awards
Mar 27 67th Academy Awards: "Forrest Gump", Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
- Mar 28 Queensland beat South Australia in cricket to win the 1st ever Sheffield Shield
- Mar 28 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
- Mar 29 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
- Mar 30 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
- Mar 31 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
- Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
Davis Cup
Mar 31 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
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