March 1974 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
• 02 Mar 1974 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
• 03 Mar 1974 Sextet opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 04 Mar 1974 People magazine is published for the first time.
• 05 Mar 1974 Candide opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
• 06 Mar 1974 Over Here opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
• 07 Mar 1974 Monitor (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 08 Mar 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 09 Mar 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.
• 10 Mar 1974 Sextet closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 11 Mar 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts.
• 12 Mar 1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Washington
• 13 Mar 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris, France.
• 16 Mar 1974 First performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 17 Mar 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International.
• 18 Mar 1974 Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against US.
• 19 Mar 1974 Jefferson Starship begins their first tour.
• 20 Mar 1974 Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
• 24 Mar 1974 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7-year reign as NCAA basketball champions.
• 25 Mar 1974 Barbra Streisand records the album Butterfly
• 26 Mar 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President.
• 28 Mar 1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup
• 29 Mar 1974 NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.

Famous Birthday

• Eva Mendes

  American actress.

• Alyson Hannigan

  American actress.

• Vida Guerra

  Cuban-American swimsuit model.

• Sophie Schutt
• Jenna Fischer

  American actress.

• Juliana Martins
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  American actor.

• Matthieu Delormeau
• Larbi Benboudaoud

  French judoka, who won the silver medal in the half lightweight (– 66 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

• Grace Park (actress)
• Stefan Olsdal

  Swedish bass player (Placebo).

• David Faustino

  American actor.

• Paula Garces

  Colombian actress.

• Kidada Jones

  Fashion Designer.

• Federica Ridolfi
• Barbara Schöneberger

  Barbara Schöneberger is a German actress, singer, and TV host.

• Renata Porto Krentkowski

  Brazilian gorgeous model, one of identical triplets.

• Thomas Enqvist

  Swedish tennis player: ATP Tour.

• Keren Ann
• Marcus Camby

  American basketball player: center/forward, Raptors.

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Famous Deaths

• Alberto Rabagliati

  Italian singer and an actor in film and radio.

• Frank Wilcox

  Actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66.

• Billy DeWolfe

  Actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67.

• Willem "Wim" Sonneveld

  Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56.

• Quinto Maganini

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Billy Fox

  Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated.

• Howard St John

  Actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68.

• Janos Prohaska

  Actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52.

• David C Imboden

  Actor (King of Kings), dies at 87.

• Doris Deane

  Dies at 74.

• Otto Waldis

  Actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72.

• Seton I Miller

  Writer, dies at 71.

• Ludovicus J Rogier

  Dutch Historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79.

• Andrea Checci

  Actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57.

• June Harrison

  Actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48.

• Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr

  American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1915).

• Solomon I "Sol" Hurok

  US impresario, dies at age 85.

• Christian van Geel

  Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at age 56.

• Earl W Sutherland Jr

  US pharmacologist (Nobel Prize 1971), dies at age 58.

• Louis I Kahn

  Estonia/US architect, dies at about age 73.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
2. Cher - Dark Lady
3. John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders
4. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
5. Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mud - Tiger Feet
2. Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero
3. The Sweet - Teenage Rampage
4. Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
5. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive