Mar 13 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
Mar 04 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
Mar 25 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
Mar 29 Turkey recognizes Israel
Mar 09 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
Mar 23 The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.
Mar 24 Walter &John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor &director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")
Mar 24 21st Academy Awards "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier &Jane Wyman win
Mar 01 Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years.
Mar 19 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN
Mar 02 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes first nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hours
Mar 09 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad.
Mar 02 A US Air Force B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady Two, lands in Texas, after completing the first non-stop around the globe flight.
Mar 09 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
Mar 18 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified
Mar 13 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
Mar 04 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player
Mar 31 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
Mar 24 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier &Jane Wyman win
Mar 02 The first automatic street light (New Milford CT)
Mar 04 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
Mar 18 NATO set up by seven European countries
Aug 24 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
Aug 08 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
Aug 09 The first use in the United States of a pilot-ejection seat for an emergency escape, was made by Lieutenant J. L. Fruin of VF-171 from an F2H-1 Banshee while making over 500 knots in the vicinity of Walterboro, S.C.
