March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).
Historical Events for March, 1899
Day of Week 4th » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a Convert 12 m ft wave that reaches up to Convert 5 km mi inland, killing over 300.
Day of Week 27th » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Philippine Revolutionary Army or Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
Day of Week 30th » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights e.g International Committee on Atomic Weights.
Day of Week 31st » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, Capture of Malolos named was captured by American forces.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1899
1st » Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (d. 1972)
4th » Liana Del Balzo, Argentinian-Italian actress (d. 1982)
4th » Emilio Prados, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
8th » Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author (d. 1984)
11th » James H. Douglas, Jr. American colonel, lawyer and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 1988)
11th » Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
13th » Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 1981)
13th » Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
13th » John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
14th » K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)
14th » Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (d. 1981)
15th » George Brent, Irish-American actor (d. 1979)
16th » Alberto Gainza Paz, Argentinian journalist and activist (d. 1977)
22nd » Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991)
23rd » Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
25th » K. S. Arulnandhy, Sri Lankan academic (d. 1972)
25th » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
25th » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (d. 1994)
27th » Carl Aage Hilbert, Danish-Faroese jurist and politician (d. 1953)
27th » Karim Mammadbeyov, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1938)
27th » Francis Ponge, French poet (d. 1988)
27th » Gloria Swanson, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1983)
28th » Gussie Busch, American businessman (d. 1989)
28th » Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
28th » Buck Shaw, American football player and coach (d. 1977)
29th » Lavrentiy Beriya, Abkhazian-Russian politician (d. 1953)
30th » Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Indian author (d. 1970)
Famous Deaths for March 1899
3rd » William P. Sprague, American banker and politician (b. 1827)