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

Mar 26 Soyuz T-4 lands

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

Mar 19 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident

Mar 02 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC

Mar 06 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News"

Mar 23 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions

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

Mar 22 Postal rates up gain to 18¢ from 15¢

Mar 19 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4

Mar 12 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA

Mar 11 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins

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