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).
1st » Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
Day of Week 10th » The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com bubble e.g dot-com boom.
Day of Week 17th » 530 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Day of Week 21st » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
Day of Week 24th » S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
Day of Week 27th » A Phillips explosion of 2000 or Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
Day of Week 28th » Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.