March 1972 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1972 Club of Rome publishes report Boundaries on the Growth
• 02 Mar 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby.
• 03 Mar 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.
• 04 Mar 1972 Last train run between Penrith and Keswick, United Kingdom.
• 05 Mar 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party.
• 06 Mar 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes.
• 08 Mar 1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
• 09 Mar 1972 Players on Chicago White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary.
• 10 Mar 1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
• 11 Mar 1972 Inner City closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
• 12 Mar 1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons.
• 14 Mar 1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
• 15 Mar 1972 NASA selects three-part configuration for Space Shuttle.
• 16 Mar 1972 John andYoko are served with deportation papers
• 17 Mar 1972 Ringo releases Back off Bugaloo in the UK
• 18 Mar 1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for first time in 225 games (Boston University).
• 19 Mar 1972 To Live Another Summer closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
• 21 Mar 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require one-year residency to vote.
• 22 Mar 1972 Selling of the President opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
• 23 Mar 1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars.
• 24 Mar 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
• 25 Mar 1972 Selling of the President closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 26 Mar 1972 Only Fools Are Sad closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
• 27 Mar 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus.
• 28 Mar 1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
• 30 Mar 1972 Funny Thing Happened... opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
• 31 Mar 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down.

Famous Birthday

• Shaquille O'Neal

  American athlete, actor and rap artist, a basketball superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers, 7' 01" and 303 lbs.

• Mia Hamm

  Selma, Alabama -- Soccer forward (1996 Olympics).

• Mallaury Nataf
• Judith Godrèche

  French actress and author, daughter of a psychiatrist, Polish immigrant (Godrèche comes from Gold Reich).

• Leslie Mann

  American actress.

• Dane Cook

  American comedian and actor.

• Alex Kapranos

  English-Scottish singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Franz Ferdinand The Yummy Fur and The Karelia).

• Ramzy Bédia
• Christophe Dugarry

  French international footballer (soccer player).

• Donald Duck: création
• Common (entertainer)
• Agathe de La Fontaine
• Melissa Auf der Maur

  Canadian musician, a bass player in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.

• Elvis Stojko

  Canadian ice-skater, winning medals from 1994 and world champion by 1998.

• Nathanaël de Rincquesen
• Facundo Arana
• Sébastien Flute
• Mili Avital

  Israeli-American actress.

• Sándor Noszaly
• Kerr Smith

  American actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Meena Kumari

  Indian film actress (d. 1972).

• Victor Babin

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Nils Bjorkander

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Fredric [William] Brown

  Sci-fi Author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65.

• Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov

  Russian painter (Born 1910).

• Lord J Arthur Rank

  British movie theater owner (Born 1888).

• J Arthur Rank

  first Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate.

• Harold "Pie" Traynor

  hall of fame third baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at age 72.

• Jan Engelman

  Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at age 71.

• Aad de Haas

  Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at age 51.

• Bill Lawrence

  news anchor (ABC), dies at age 56.

• Cristobal Balenciaga

  Spanish fashion designer (Born 1895).

• M C Escher

  Dutch artist (Born 1898).

• Tony Ray-Jones

  British photographer (Born 1941).

• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

  German Nazi official (Born 1899).

• Sharkey Bonano

  American singer trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1972).

• Gabriel Heatter

  American radio commentator (Born 1890).

• Peter Whitney

  Actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55.

• Maurits C Escher

  Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73.

• Marilyn Maxwell

  American actress and singer (d. 1972).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Nilsson - Without You
2. Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
3. America - A Horse With No Name
4. Carpenters - Hurting Each Other
5. Climax - Precious And Few

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Nilsson - Without You
2. Pipes & Drums & The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guard - Amazing Grace
3. Don McLean - American Pie
4. The New Seekers - Beg, Steal Or Borrow
5. Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo