1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
1997 U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
1996 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1995 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
1995 Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend)
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade
1991 Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 Washington D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in New York City
1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington D.C. for ERA
1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
1976 Priscilla Taylor, born in Miami, Florida, playmate March, 1996
1975 Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77
1974 Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
1973 Jane March, born in Edgeware, England, actress, Lover
1972 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
1972 Marliece Andrada, born in Manteca, California, playmate, March 1998
1972 Jennifer Miriam, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, playmate, March, 1997
1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1970 100,000 march in New York supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam
1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank
1970 Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49
1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1968 Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1968 Poor Peoples March on Washington
1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, D.C.
1967 Laurie Wood, born in Orange, California, playmate, March, 1989
1966 Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet, March, 1991
1966 Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1964 Dona L Speir, Norwalk California, playmate, March, 1984
1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
1962 John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1960 Donna Smith, born in Portland Oregon, playmate, March, 1985
1958 Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate, March, 1979
1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1957 Kimberly Herrin, born in Santa Barbara, California, playmate, March, 1981
1956 Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate, March, 1988
1953 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, British composer (Coronation March), dies at 69
1952 Bonnie Large, born in Glendale California, playmate, March 1973
1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany
1948 -5 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1948 Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist, I Will Follow Him
1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1946 Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1945 U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
1944 British troops march into Athens
1944 Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia
1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 U.S. troop march into Guam
1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1944 British troops march into Caen
1944 U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1944 Allies march into Rome
1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942 Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1941 British troops march into Abyssinia
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1935 Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1935 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1934 Josef Sommer, born in Germany, actor, Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March
1933 Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march
1933 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March
1932 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.
1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1920 Hal March, born in San Francisco, California, actor/TV host, $64,000 Question, Outrage
1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1916 U.S. troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1915 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding right to vote
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings
1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1915 C. W. Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer, March of Archaeology
1914 U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1913 Serbian troops march into Albania
1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1912 Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss and March/Scottish landowner
1910 Eve March, California, actress, Curse of the Cat People
1910 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1903 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet
1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool
1897 Frederic March, Wisconsin, actor, Dr. Jeckyll-Acad Awards 1932/1946
1897 Fredric March, American Actor
1893 William March, [Campbell], U.S., writer, Company K
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City
1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Kingston, Georgia burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1864 Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1864 Sherman's march through Mississippi
1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South
1863 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33
1863 Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi
1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri
1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1841 1st continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11
1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1807 David R Atchison, President of USA on March 3rd 1849
1807 Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
1804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer, Radetzky March
1773 William Henry Harrison, Virginia, Whigs, 9th President, March 4-April 4, 1841
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1556 Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1459 Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies
1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
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