Mar 05 Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.
Mar 07 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
Mar 21 In the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of peaceful black demonstrators, killing sixty-nine people and wounding nearly two hundred in a hail of sub-machine gunfire.
Mar 28 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)
Mar 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
Mar 14 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
Mar 15 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
Mar 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
Mar 26 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem
Mar 26 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
Mar 06 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
Mar 29 Launch of first fully integrated Fleet Ballistic Missile from USS Observation Island
Mar 28 Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African & first Filipino cardinal
Mar 05 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
Mar 31 Gore Vidal's "Best Man", premieres in New York NY
Mar 23 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
Mar 10 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
Mar 15 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
Mar 07 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
Mar 07 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
Mar 22 Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
Mar 25 Italian government Tambroni forms
Mar 07 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
Mar 25 The first guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
Mar 07 The birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
