March 1988 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1988 Joe Besser, American comedian (The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello), dies at age 80 (born 1907).
• 02 Mar 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merges with SDP.
• 05 Mar 1988 The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
• 06 Mar 1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
• 07 Mar 1988 Jim Abbott, one-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award.
• 08 Mar 1988 U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday."
• 09 Mar 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
• 10 Mar 1988 Avalanche at Swiss ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles.
• 11 Mar 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire.
• 13 Mar 1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win.
• 15 Mar 1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons.
• 16 Mar 1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, three killed.
• 17 Mar 1988 Les Miserables, opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
• 19 Mar 1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
• 20 Mar 1988 Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 21 Mar 1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr.
• 22 Mar 1988 US Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill.
• 24 Mar 1988 Gospel at Colonus opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
• 25 Mar 1988 Les Miserables, opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
• 26 Mar 1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 metre freestyle female world record (15:02.10).
• 27 Mar 1988 Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
• 29 Mar 1988 Oba Oba opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
• 30 Mar 1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
• 31 Mar 1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for Beloved

Famous Birthday

• Jessie J

  English singer and songwriter.

• Sasha Grey

  American pornographic actress.

• Big Sean

  Musician.

• Jhene (pop singer)
• Stephen Curry (basketball)
• Grimes (musician)
• Brenda Song

  American actress.

• James Arthur (singer)
• Elly Jackson

  Pop Singer.

• Capri Anderson

  American porn actress.

• Tania Raymonde

  American actress.

• Agnès Carlsson
• Josh Bowman

  TV Actor.

• Katija Pevec

  American actress.

• Clayton Kershaw

  American baseball player.

• Louie Vito

  American snowboarder.

• Jean-Guillaume Béatrix

  French biathlete, he won two silver medals with the French relay at the World championships (2012 and 13) and a bronze one in the pursuit at...

• Holliday Grainger

  Movie Actress.

• Suvi Koponen

  Finnish-American model and actress.

• Berenika Okuniewska
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Famous Deaths

• John Holmes

  American porno star who was reputed to have 13" of qualification and who once boasted of having sex with 14,000 women.

• Andy Gibb

  British-American musician and youngest brother of the pop group "The Bee Gees.

• Renato Salvatori

  Italian actor, a ruggedly handsome man portrayed in supporting and leading roles.

• Jean Le Poulain

  French actor.

• Edgar Faure

  French lawyer and politician, the assistant delegate at the Nurnberg trials in 1945.

• Kurt Georg Kiesinger

  third West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at age 83 (born 1904).

• Billy Butterfield

  American musician, trumpet and flugelhorn player, and bandleader for the "Greatest Jazz Band" in 1968.

• Pham Hung

  Premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74.

• Talib Rasul Hakim

  Composer, dies at 48.

• Amar Singh Chamkila

  Punjabi folk singer (Born 1961).

• Sean Savage

  Irish Republican (Born 1965).

• Dmitri F Polyakov

  Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed.

• Jan van den Weghe

  Flemish writer, dies at about age 67.

• Beatriz Guido

  Argentine novelist and screenwriter (Born 1924).

• Mairead Farrell

  Irish Republican (Born 1957).

• Daniel McCann

  Irish Republican (Born 1957).

• Konstantin Iliev

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Divine

  American actor and singer, the Drag Queen of the Century, a 375 lbs.

• Gil Evans

  Canadian-American pianist composer and bandleader (d. 1988).

• Glenn Cunningham

  American middle-distance runner (d. 1988).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. George Michael - Father Figure
2. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
3. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
4. Belinda Carlisle - I Get Weak
5. Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
2. Pet Shop Boys - Heart
3. Aswad - Don't Turn Around
4. Bros - Drop The Boy
5. Rick Astley - Together Forever