Mar 05 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die

Mar 27 Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; first all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket.

Mar 20 In Uganda a 6.75 earthquake was the most destructive earthquake in recent African history, about 140 fatalities and hundreds of injuries were reported

Mar 04 John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

Mar 15 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles

Mar 19 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65

Mar 25 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional

Mar 16 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong &Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits

Mar 03 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter", premieres in New York NY

Mar 26 Operation Jackstay in Navy's first amphibious assault in Vietnam's inland waters

Mar 23 First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church

Mar 27 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia

Mar 06 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)

Mar 11 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

Mar 03 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

Mar 16 On this day in 1966 General Motors produced its 100,000,000th car, an Oldsmobile Toronado

Mar 29 Muhammad Ali beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Mar 25 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled

Mar 16 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London

Mar 08 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin

Mar 30 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS

Mar 22 In Northeastern China a 6.75-7.0 earthquake occurred second one in a month the last was March 07.

Mar 07 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 03 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée

Mar 08 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame

Mar 09 Andrew Brimmer becomes first black Governor of Federal Reserve Board

Mar 10 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg

Mar 10 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley

Mar 29 Dow Brewery destroys 4,546,000 litres of beer after 16 people die in Quebec City area; 1 million gallons go down the drain.

Mar 04 Canadian Pacific DC-8 explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people, including 18 Canadians

Mar 12 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record

Mar 07 In Northeastern China a 6..75 earthquake damaged thirty communes by the first shock indicating that about 300,000 Chinese were affected in the densely populated city of Singtai

Mar 04 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die

Mar 15 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Streisand

Mar 17 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean

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