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).
Day of Week 5th » First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
Day of Week 7th » Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany Remilitarization of the Rhineland known as reoccupies the Rhineland.
Day of Week 8th » Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car racing called stock car race.
Day of Week 14th » Show Boat (1936 film) or The first all-sound film version of 'Show Boat' opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of 'Show Boat' in 1929.)
Day of Week 16th » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny River Allegheny and Monongahela River Monongahela rivers and lead to Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 a major flood in Pittsburgh.
14th » Bob Charles (golfer) named Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
15th » David Andrews (Irish politician) called David Andrews, Irish politician, 21st Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade known as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ireland
15th » Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
16th » Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
16th » Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the Magnetic resonance imaging e.g MRI
16th » Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress and singer (d. 2006)
17th » Ladislav Kupkovič, Slovakian composer and conductor
17th » Patty Maloney, American actress
17th » Ken Mattingly, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut
18th » F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize named Nobel Prize laureate