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, 1990
Day of Week 1st » Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Day of Week 2nd » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
Day of Week 6th » Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the Cross-America flight air speed record e.g transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
Day of Week 10th » In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
Day of Week 11th » Lithuania Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania called declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
11th » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
Day of Week 15th » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
Day of Week 18th » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the East German general election, 1990 or first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
18th » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Day of Week 19th » The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
Day of Week 21st » Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
Day of Week 25th » The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in The Bronx, New York City.
Day of Week 27th » The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Fidel Castro called Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
Day of Week 28th » President of the United States e.g President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
Day of Week 29th » The Czechoslovakia known as Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
Day of Week 31st » Approximately Poll Tax Riots or 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.