March 24

World famous magician Harry Houdini born (1874); Author Jules Verne dies (1905); Dorothy Height, civil and women’s rights activist, born (1912); Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground, eventually spills 11 million gallons of oil (1989).

March 22

Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico (1873); First Stanley Cup championship played (1894); Legendary musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born (1948); Sports broadcaster Bob Costas born (1952); US Senate passes the Equal Rights Amendment—though it was never ratified (1972); Reese Witherspoon born (1976).

March 23

Patrick Henry delivers “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech in Richmond, Virginia (1775); Elisha Otis installs first passenger elevator in New York City (1857); Psychologist and "The Art of Loving" author Erich Fromm born (1900); Singer Chaka Khan born (1953); Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dies (2022)

March 20

Sir Walter Raleigh freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment (1616); Italian physicist Alessandro Volta announces the discovery of the electric battery (1800); Fred "Mister" Rogers born (1928); Author Lois Lowry born (1937); Kenny Rogers dies (2020).

March 21

Pocahontas is buried (1617); Martin Luther King Jr. leads third and ultimately successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (1965); The US announces boycott of Summer Olympics in Moscow (1980); Twitter is founded (2006).

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March 19

American novelist Philip Roth born (1933); American actress Glenn Close born (1947); American actor Bruce Willis born (1955); Texas Western, now known as UTEP, is first basketball team to win NCAA Championship with all-Black starting lineup (1966); Iraq War begins (2003).

March 18

President Grover Cleveland born (1837); Actress and first Black Miss America Vanessa Williams born (1963); Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes first person to walk in space (1965); Queen Latifah born (1970); Chuck Berry dies (2017). 

March 17

First St. Patrick’s Day parade held (1601); Golf legend Bobby Jones born (1902); Singer Nat King Cole born (1919); National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC (1941); Soccer great Mia Hamm born (1972).

March 16

Roman Emperor Tiberius dies (37 CE); US President James Madison born (1751); World's first liquid-fueled rocket launched in Massachusetts (1926); Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin born (1964); Dow Jones sees largest single-day point drop ever at 2,997 (2020)

March 15

The Ides of March: Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus (44 BCE); President Andrew Jackson born (1767); Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg born (1933); Terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 51 (2019).

March 14

Eli Whitney patents cotton gin (1794); Albert Einstein born (1879); Stephen Curry born (1988); Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles born (1997); Stephen Hawking dies (2018). 

March 13

Uranus discovered (1781); President Benjamin Harrison dies (1901); Susan B. Anthony dies (1906); The Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest undersea tunnel, opened in Japan (1988) Tennis star Coco Gauff born (2004); Pope Francis' papacy begins (2013).

March 12

Writer and author Jack Kerouac born (1922); Mahatma Gandhi begins 200-mile protest march against British salt tax (1930); Actress and singer Liza Minnelli born (1946); Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker dies (1955).

March 10

Courrières mining accident kills 1,099 in France (1906); Harriet Tubman dies (1913); Sharon Stone born (1958); Dot-com bubble peaks as the Nasdaq hits 5,048 (2000); Ethiopian Airlines flight crashes, killing 157 (2019).

March 11

Civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy born (1926); Sir Alexander Fleming, scientist who discovered penicillin, dies (1955); Janet Reno confirmed as US' first female attorney general (1993); Coordinated bombings kill 191 people on trains in Madrid (2004); COVID-19 declared a pandemic by World Health Organization (2020).

March 9

Italian soccer club Inter Milan founded (1908); Barbie doll debuts at American International Toy Fair (1959); Comedian George Burns dies (1996); Space Shuttle Discovery makes final of 39 landings (2011); US Olympic gold-winning gymnast Sunisa Lee born (2003)

March 8

First stock car race held in Daytona Beach (1936); International Women's Day becomes official United Nations holiday (1977); Baseball player Joe DiMaggio dies (1999); Sam Simon, director and codeveloper of "The Simpsons," dies (2015).

March 5

Five American colonists shot by British troops in Boston Massacre (1770); Josef Stalin dies (1953); Singer Patsy Cline dies (1963); Actress Eva Mendes born (1974); Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dies (2013).

March 4

Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer, born (1678); Jeannette Rankin becomes first female member of US House of Representatives (1917); Frances Perkins becomes secretary of labor, first female member of US Cabinet (1933); Actor and comedian John Candy dies (1994); Actor Luke Perry dies (2019).

March 3

Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born (1847); "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes the US national anthem (1931); Track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee born (1962); Turkish Airlines flight crashes outside Paris, killing all 346 aboard (1974)

March 6

Michelangelo born (1475); Davy Crockett and around 200 others are killed at the Battle of the Alamo (1836); Aspirin is patented (1899); Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez born (1927); Ghana becomes first sub-Saharan colony to achieve independence from British rule (1957); Shaquille O’Neal born (1972); Artist Georgia O’Keeffe dies (1986).

March 7

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876); Actor Bryan Cranston born (1956); Roughly 600 Civil Rights activists attacked by police while marching from Selma to Montgomery, an event known as Bloody Sunday (1965); American poet Amanda Gorman born (1998); Director Stanley Kubrick dies (1999).

March 2

Manhattan's Martha Washington Hotel opens, first exclusively for women (1903); Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA single-game scoring record at 100 (1962); James Bond actor Daniel Craig born (1968); English novelist of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" DH Lawrence dies (1930)

February 28

Coaching legend Dean Smith born (1931); Record 106 million people watch series finale of "M*A*S*H" (1983); Persian Gulf War ends (1991); Basketball star Luka Dončić born (1999); Actress Jane Russell dies (2011).

March 1

Articles of Confederation are ratified, go into effect in the US (1781); Writer Ralph Ellison born (1914); Harry Belafonte born (1927); The Peace Corps is established (1961); Actress Lupita Nyong'o born (1983); Justin Bieber born (1994).