Mar 19 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

Mar 23 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley

Mar 25 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General

Mar 17 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC

Mar 22 NASA launches Intelsat VA

Mar 06 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his first pro fight

Mar 14 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards

Mar 15 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

Mar 16 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years

Mar 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 20 Libby Riddles is first woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

Mar 27 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Mar 29 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece

Mar 26 In Ottawa Ontario Brian Mulroney 1939- announces that his government is ending the National Energy Program, Alberta starts singing "Happy Days are Here Again"

Mar 16 In the Leeward Islands a 6.8 earthquake injured 6 and damage (VI) on Guadeloupe. Minor damage on Montserrat. Also felt on Antigua, St. Kitts and Puerto Rico.

Mar 08 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxed themselves to discover that 407,700 Americans were millionaires -- more than double the total of just five years before.

Mar 19 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile

Mar 10 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Elena Valova &Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)

Mar 21 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed

Mar 10 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)

Mar 01 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

Mar 19 In Bolivia a 5.5 earthquake killed 2 people and damage in the Monteagudo area.

Mar 28 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues", premieres in New York NY

Mar 28 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad

Mar 30 Sally Anne Atkinson becomes Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first Liberal and first woman to do so.

Mar 17 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago

Mar 03 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

Mar 29 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist

Mar 21 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame

Mar 10 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)

Mar 10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

Mar 25 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win

Mar 24 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)

Mar 07 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released

Mar 06 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King &I"

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