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, 1980
Day of Week 3rd » The USS Nautilus SSN-571 6 is Ship decommissioning decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
Day of Week 10th » Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
10th » Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing.
Day of Week 14th » In Poland, a LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 e.g plane crashes during final approach (aviation) e.g final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
Day of Week 18th » At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok rocket e.g Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
Day of Week 20th » The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the England e.g English coast.
Day of Week 21st » President of the United States named US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
21st » 'Dallas (1978 TV series) known as Dallas' aired its "A House Divided (Dallas) e.g A House Divided" episode, which led to eight months of international intrigue regarding Who shot J.R.?
Day of Week 23rd » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
Day of Week 24th » Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass (Catholic Church) known as Mass in San Salvador.
Day of Week 27th » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland (platform) called Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
27th » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from Nelson Bunker Hunt e.g the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
Day of Week 31st » The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.