Mar 08 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond

Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.33)

Mar 15 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions

Mar 28 49th Academy Awards "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win

Mar 24 Former Australian cabinet minister Don Chipp resigns from the Liberal Party; later he establishes the Australian Democrats

Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747's crash, Tenerife

Mar 09 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th

Mar 12 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party

Mar 25 In another part of Turkey a 5.2 earthquake killed 30, injured some, and caused considerable damage in the Lice-Palu area.

Mar 04 A 7.2 earthquake occurred in Romania, it was centered about 170 kilometers northeast of Bucharest. It killed 1,500, injured about 10,500, and caused extensive damage in Bucharest and other parts of Romania

Mar 15 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV

Mar 04 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541

Mar 01 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards

Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

Mar 01 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles

Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1 15.33)

Mar 13 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test

Mar 16 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland

Mar 07 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

Mar 03 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (USSR)

Mar 21 In Iran a 7.0 earthquake was was centered in the Bandar Abbas area, near the Persian Gulf. The earthquake killed 167, injured 556, and caused considerable damage over an area of 550 square kilometers north of Bandar Abbas

Mar 28 Morarji Desai forms government in India

Mar 22 Dutch Den Uyl government falls

Mar 11 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway

Mar 02 Libya amends constitution

Mar 10 Uranus rings discovered

Mar 19 "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes at Music Box NYC after 390 performances

Mar 12 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

Mar 28 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win

Mar 07 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

Mar 03 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

Mar 20 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century

Mar 02 Bette Davis is first woman to receive Life Achievement Award

Mar 21 Off Newfoundland the Greenpeace Foundation abandons protest against annual seal hunt off coast of Newfoundland; due to bad weather, ice conditions, and lack of money

Mar 18 Vietnam hands over MIA to US

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