Mar 01 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London

Mar 31 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar

Mar 07 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union &jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

Mar 11 U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops engage in one of the heaviest battles of Operation Junction City. The fierce fighting resulted in 210 reported North Vietnamese casualties.

Mar 20 Supremes release "The Happening"

Mar 16 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down

Mar 15 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil

Mar 15 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum

Mar 03 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain, later the U.S. will come calling

Mar 13 Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death

Mar 02 9th Grammy Awards Strangers in Night &Michele win

Mar 22 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title in first Madison Square Garden fight

Mar 06 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

Mar 07 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", premieres in New York NY

Mar 30 In Victoria BC, opening of SEACOM Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia.

Mar 06 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards

Mar 11 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)

Mar 03 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 07 PBRs assists Operation Overload II in Rung Sat Zone, Vietnam

Mar 02 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night &Michele win

Mar 18 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil

Mar 12 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet

Mar 03 Eric Burdon and the Animals refuse to do a show in Ottawa unless they are paid in advance; audience of 3,000 go on a rampage, doing $5,000 in damages.

Mar 12 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority

Mar 25 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1

Mar 18 Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1

Mar 02 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 06 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison

Mar 01 Dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain

Mar 30 In Victoria BC, opening of SEACOM: Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia.

Mar 04 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)

Mar 28 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

Mar 19 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France

Mar 09 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West

Mar 26 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming &Cabaret win

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