Mar 31 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa

Mar 21 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

Mar 30 German counter offensive in North-Africa

Mar 26 HMS YORK, lost Eastern Mediterranean, in Suda Bay, north Crete - badly damaged by Italian explosive motor boats, beached and later wrecked by bombing

Mar 27 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years

Mar 14 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"

Mar 07 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid

Mar 28 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy

Mar 24 British troops defeat British Somalia

Mar 01 "Captain America" appears in a comic book

Mar 07 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)

Mar 24 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya

Mar 03 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Göring in Berlin

Mar 01 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp

Mar 07 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Mar 12 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands

Mar 22 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation

Mar 04 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague

Mar 07 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece but do not stay long

Mar 16 Blizzard hits North Dakota &Minnesota killing 60

Mar 17 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens

Mar 07 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA

Mar 01 The first US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN

Mar 11 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)

Mar 13 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)

Mar 27 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

Mar 15 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151

Mar 27 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul

Mar 28 Sea battle at Cape Matapan British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy

Mar 16 Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize

Mar 20 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn

Mar 24 Glenn Miller begins work on his first movie for 20th Century Fox

Mar 07 3rd largest snowfall in New York NY history (18.1")

Mar 16 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington DC

Mar 01 German troops invade Bulgaria

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