- Mar 1 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
- Mar 1 The Constitution of Finland is rewritten
Sports History
Mar 2 America's Cup, Auckland: Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Prada Challenge by 0.48s for a 5-0 series sweep; NZ only the 2nd country in 150 years to successfully defend the Cup
Event of Interest
Mar 2 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges
- Mar 2 St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road, with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta; tie mark set by Buffalo 1983-84
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 4 14th Soul Train Music Awards: Prince, Whitney Houston, DMX & Mary J. Blige win
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 6 15th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Eric Clapton; Earth, Wind, and Fire; Lovin' Spoonful; The Moonglows; Bonnie Raitt; James Taylor; Nat King Cole; Billie Holiday; Hal Blaine; "King" Curtis; James Jamerson; Scotty Moore; Earl Palmer; and Clive Davis
Sports History
Mar 6 Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche
- Mar 10 16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
- Mar 10 NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
- Mar 11 21st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Connecticut, 80-70
- Mar 12 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
- Mar 12 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
- Mar 17 The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult
Sports History
Mar 18 England clinch inaugural Six Nations Rugby Championship with 59-12 thrashing of Italy at Stadio Flaminio, Rome; England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson kicks 7 goals and winger Austin Healey scores 3 tries
- Mar 20 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead
Papal Visit
Mar 20 Pope John Paul II visits Holy Land - Jordan, Israel, Palestine
- Mar 21 NSYNC release their 4th studio album “No Strings Attached” (2000 Billboard Album of the Year)
- Mar 25 20th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Wild Wild West" wins
Academy Awards
Mar 26 72nd Academy Awards: "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
Golf Major
Mar 26 Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Karrie Webb of Australia wins the first of her 2 titles in this event, 10 strokes ahead of defending champion Dottie Pepper
PGA Players Championship
Mar 27 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 1983 champion Hal Sutton leads wire-to-wire to win by a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods
- Mar 27 Phillips explosion kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
- Mar 28 A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
Knighthood
Mar 30 Richard Branson is knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales for "services to entrepreneurship" at Buckingham Palace, London
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