March 3rd 1972

Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

March 4th 1964

Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering

March 5th 1995

Graves of Czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg

March 6th 1899

Asprin is patented by Felix Hoffmann

March 7th 1973

Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman’s Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

March 8th 1986

Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million

March 9th 1962

Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians

March 10th 1977

Rings of Uranus discovered

March 11th 1953

American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn’t go off due to 6 safety catches

March 12th 1993

317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

March 13th 1904

Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated

March 14th 1955

Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal

March 15th 1971

Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet

March 16th 1991

7 of Reba McEntire’s band members are killed in a plane crash

March 17th 1959

Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India

March 18th 1922

British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience

March 19th 1996

Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

March 20th 2010

Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the ‘elder statesman of South Asia’ who dies in Kathmandu at age 86

March 21st 1974

Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London’s Pall Mall

March 22nd 1958

Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia

March 23rd 1940

All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland

March 24th 1952

Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa

March 25th 1306

Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland

March 26th 1980

Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)

March 27th 1855

Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

March 28th 1977

Morarji Desai forms government in India

March 29th 1961

After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge

March 30th 1919

Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

March 31st 1889

300m officially opens, commemorates French Revolution