Mar 12 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
Mar 10 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
Mar 01 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 08 First US cruise missile tested over western Canada; unarmed missile stays attached to B-52 bomber.
Mar 23 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (Great Britain)
Mar 20 Andy Kaufman &Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
Mar 15 10th People's Choice Awards Brooke Shields
Mar 11 In the Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters.
Mar 15 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (4 years after his death)
Mar 09 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
Mar 13 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
Mar 21 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
Mar 16 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 14 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
Mar 15 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
Mar 20 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
Mar 19 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
Mar 24 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
Mar 31 One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research
Mar 05 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene
Mar 19 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
Mar 19 "Kate &Allie", premieres
Mar 13 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
Mar 02 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
