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
