Mar 23 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
Mar 28 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
Mar 06 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
Mar 08 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
Mar 22 The birth of Stephen Sondheim, American songwriter
Mar 04 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
Mar 27 The first US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
Mar 20 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
Mar 24 The birth of Steve McQueen, American actor
Mar 13 Discovery of the planet Pluto by Clyde W Tombaugh made his discovery on February 18 and announced it on March 13
Mar 12 Mahatma Gandhi began a march to the sea, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India
Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
Mar 15 The first streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
Mar 08 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
Mar 11 Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $80,000.
Mar 24 Planet Pluto named
Mar 11 President &Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
Mar 13 Pluto discovered
Mar 23 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
Aug 13 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles) born
Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
Aug 05 The birth of Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon
