Mar 05 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

Mar 26 The British Social Democratic Party is founded by the 'Gang of Four'

Mar 01 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances

Mar 06 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

Mar 20 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years

Mar 02 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists

Mar 28 France performs nuclear test

Mar 06 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth

Mar 15 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker

Mar 26 Police &Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia

Mar 09 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News

Mar 27 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK

Mar 17 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms

Mar 01 IRA member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. (Sands died 65 days later.)

Mar 31 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek win

Mar 20 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor

Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 24 Bombay beat Delhi by innings &46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy

Mar 30 US President Ronald Reagan wounded in an assassination attempt

Mar 01 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)

Mar 05 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer

Mar 01 Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's National Energy Policy the federal government replies by a compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a "Lougheed Levy" to subsidize imports

Mar 24 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC

Mar 13 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

Mar 08 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic

Mar 07 The first homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

Mar 28 Viv Richards scores century in the first Test at his home Antigua

Mar 24 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba

Mar 01 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic

Mar 19 Emmy 8th Daytime Awards: Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time

Mar 30 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley Jr

Mar 06 CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite gives his last newscast.

Mar 10 In the North West Territories Panarctic Oils Ltd. finds oil in offshore exploratory well in the eastern Arctic

Mar 12 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

Mar 22 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6

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