Ice Age: The Meltdown
Mar 1 Animated film "Ice Age: The Meltdown" directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium
- Mar 1 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station
- Mar 1 Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time
- Mar 3 37th NAACP Image Awards: "Crash" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 4 20th Soul Train Music Awards: Jamie Foxx, Destiny's Child & John Legend win
- Mar 4 26th Golden Raspberry Awards: Dirty Love wins
- Mar 4 Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response received.
Academy Awards
Mar 5 78th Academy Awards: "Crash", Philip Seymour Hoffman & Reese Witherspoon win
Film & TV History
Mar 5 Nature documentary "Planet Earth" narrated by David Attenborough premieres on the BBC
- Mar 6 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
- Mar 9 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
- Mar 10 Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
- Mar 10 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- Mar 11 27th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Pittsburgh, 65-61
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Mar 11 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile
- Mar 12 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
- Mar 12 53rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #7 Boston College, 78-76
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 13 21st Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Black Sabbath; Blondie; Miles Davis; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Sex Pistols; Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
Film & TV History
Mar 14 Mike Wallace retires from US news program "60 Minutes" after 37 years
- Mar 15 18th Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne, Australia
- Mar 16 The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
- Mar 18 France wins Six Nations Rugby Championship on points difference over Ireland, with a 21-16 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Ireland receives consolation prize of the Triple Crown Trophy
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Mar 19 On the weekend of his 84th birthday, Fred Shuttlesworth gives his final sermon in front of 300 people at the Greater New Light Baptist Church
- Mar 20 Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
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Mar 20 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
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Mar 21 First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr"
- Mar 21 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
- Mar 22 BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths
- Mar 22 ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire
- Mar 22 Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox
- Mar 23 The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply
- Mar 24 Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
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Mar 24 Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate
- Mar 25 Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood
- Mar 25 Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
- Mar 26 Burma's military junta officially names Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, the new capital (Yangon previous capital)
- Mar 26 In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force
- Mar 26 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Canadian Stephen Ames shoots a final round 67 to complete biggest win of his career by 6 strokes from Retief Goosen of South Africa
- Mar 27 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
- Mar 28 At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law
- Mar 30 Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space
- Mar 30 UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
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