March 1948 calendar

Events

• 05 Mar 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
• 08 Mar 1948 US Supreme Court rules relgious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
• 09 Mar 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia.
• 10 Mar 1948 First civilian to exceed speed of sound - Herb H Hoover, Edwards Air Force Base California.
• 11 Mar 1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
• 14 Mar 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
• 15 Mar 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
• 16 Mar 1948 The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.
• 17 Mar 1948 Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
• 18 Mar 1948 France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
• 19 Mar 1948 Lee Savold knocks out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York.
• 20 Mar 1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
• 21 Mar 1948 Stop the Music with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
• 25 Mar 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
• 27 Mar 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
• 28 Mar 1948 Second Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win.
• 29 Mar 1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
• 31 Mar 1948 US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe.

Famous Birthday

• Steven Tyler

  American musician and original member of the rock group, Aerosmith, formed in 1970.

• Al Gore

  American politician, an attractive member for the Democratic Party with a famous political name, a solid family life, and strong religious...

• Billy Crystal

  American actor and comedian, a gifted mimic and major league comic who evokes full-blown alter egos.

• James Taylor

  American singer and songwriter whose introspective and sensitive songs helped a generation through the transition period from the turmoil...

• James Taylor

  American singer and songwriter whose introspective and sensitive songs helped a generation through the transition period from the turmoil...

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

  English theatre composer.

• Rory Gallagher

  Irish singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Taste) (d. 1995).

• Dianne Wiest

  American actress.

• Jean-Pierre Adams

  French former international footballer.

• Guy Montagné
• Rhea Perlman

  TV Actress.

• Newfoundland (island)
• Peggy March

  American pop singer, primarily known for her 1963 million-selling song "I Will Follow Him".

• Richard Gotainer
• James Ellroy

  American author.

• Chantal Lauby

  French film actress and director, screenwriter, and humourist (member of "Les Nuls" with Farrugia and Chabat), particularly known for her...

• Sergio Vieira de Mello

  Brazilian diplomat (Born 1948).

• Bonnie Bedelia

  American actress.

• Wolf Blitzer

  American television journalist.

• Loïc Caradec

  French engineer, architect, and skipper, he won the Transat race Quebec-St-Malo in 1984.

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Famous Deaths

• Zelda Fitzgerald

  American wife of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Ross Lockridge

  American author of "Raintree County," published in 1948 after seven years of writing.

• Helen Ernst

  German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about age 43.

• Sigrid Hjerten

  Swedish modernist painter (Born 1885).

• Emile St Godard

  Canadian dog sled racer (Born 1905).

• Harry Price

  British psychic researcher and writer (Born 1881).

• Jan Masaryk

  Czech soldier and politician Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948).

• Olev Siinmaa

  Estonian-Swedish architect (d. 1948).

• Warren Hymer

  Actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42.

• Karel Candael

  Flemish composer, dies at 64.

• Antonin Artaud

  French writer and theoretician, a poet and playwright whose ideals were Baudelaire and Poe.

• Egon E Kisch

  Czech writer / journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62.

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Perry Como - Because
2. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - I Love You, Yes I Do
3. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Sabre Dance
4. Buddy Clark - Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)