March 5th 1931

Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact

March 6th 1998

1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

March 7th 1988

Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award

March 8th 1972

1st flight of the Goodyear blimp

March 9th 1974

Japanese soldier 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended

March 10th 1982

Syzygy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of the sun

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 1930

Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

March 13th 1961

Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

March 14th 1955

Prince Mahendra becomes king of Nepal

March 15th 1946

British premier Attlee agrees with India’s right to independence

March 16th 1991

New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38

March 17th  1993

86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta

March 18th 1966

General Suharto forms government in Indonesia

March 19th 1644

200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide

March 20th 1995

Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured

March 21st 1952

31 storms cross 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S.

March 22nd 1977

Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

March 23rd  1956

Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in the Commonwealth (National Day)

March 24th 1989

Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska

March 25th  1896

Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece

March 26th 1931

New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies

March 27th 1933

Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett

March 28th 1959

11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet’s government and installs Panchen Lama

March 29th 1849

Britain formally annexes Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India

March 30th 1867

U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000

March 31st 1896

Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents the zipper