March 2001 calendar

Events

• 02 Mar 2001 The Taliban begin to destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas.
• 03 Mar 2001 Jackie Martling's last day on Howard Stern Show.
• 04 Mar 2001 Disaster at Hintze Ribeiro: Up to 70 people are killed when a bridge collapses in northern Portugal.
• 07 Mar 2001 Nickelodeon airs the ''SpongeBob squarePants You Wish' tv special. The episode of Dragonball Z, The Doomsday Broadcast, was almost banned by government officials, but it still had viewers.
• 08 Mar 2001 Died: Ninette De Valoisnbsp - founder of Royal Ballet London
• 09 Mar 2001 Superior Galleries, Salt Lake City, Utah sells a US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent Coin to Dwight Manley at a auction for US$1.84 Million.
• 12 Mar 2001 The US Mint has released the North Carolina quarter-dollar for circulation.
• 14 Mar 2001 At 3:49:28, this day marks the 686th term in the Leibniz series. The terms in these two sequences are respectively 0.785033732 & 3.140134928.
• 18 Mar 2001 John Phillipsnbsp - Singer and songwriter
• 22 Mar 2001 William Hannanbsp- director, animator, producer and co-founder Hanna-Barbera Productions
• 23 Mar 2001 Russian Mir space station is destroyed. It breaks up in the atmosphere and then falls into the Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.
• 24 Mar 2001 Apple Computer launches Mac OS X 10.0
• 29 Mar 2001 18 people were killed when a chartered Gulfstream III jet crashed into a hillside on approach to Aspen, Colorado.
• 30 Mar 2001 Release of the PC game "Tribes 2"
• 31 Mar 2001 Premiere of animated television series "Invader Zim"

Famous Birthday

• Aryana Engineer

  Canadian actress.

• Corrina Gill

  American noted family, the daughter of country western singers Amy Grant and Vince Gill, who married on 3/10/2000.

• Jackson Pasdar

  American noted family, the son of Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and her husband, Adrian Pasdar.

• Loana Schrempp

  German noted family, the daughter of Jürgen Schrempp, the head of Daimler-Chrysler AG in Germany and his second wife, Lydia, 20 years...

• Louis Healy

  Family Member.

• Lexee Smith

  Dancer.

• Kaleigh Ryan

  Movie Actress.

• Cole Galotti

  YouNow Star.

• Jacob Cruikshank

  Family Member.

• Jade Holden

  TV Actress.

• Catalina Selman

  Musical.

• Ellie Leach

  Soap Opera Actress.

• Jeyna Ponce

  YouTube Star.

• Thomas Ketchum

  YouTube Star.

• Ramona Marquez

  English child actress.

• Domani Harris

  Family Member.

• Tayluer Amos

  Dancer.

• Jada Facer

  TV Actress.

• Cameron Cook

  Musical.

• Videoprosuperstars

  YouTube Star.

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Famous Deaths

• Ann Sothern

  American actress with a film debut in 1929.

• William Hanna

  American animator and studio founder (Born 1910).

• Eugene Sledge

  American soldier author and academic (d. 2001).

• John Phillips

  American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (Born 1935).

• Jean Rene Bazaine

  French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (Born 1904).

• Jim Rhodes

  American politician (Born 1909).

• Martin Wright

  British bioengineer (Born 1912).

• Louiza Podimata

  Greek actress (Born 1920).

• Charles K Johnson

  President of the Flat Earth Society (Born 1924).

• Sabiha Gokcen

  Turkish combat pilot (Born 1913).

• Muriel Young

  English TV entertainer (Born 1928).

• Brian Trubshaw

  British Concorde test pilot (Born 1924).

• John Lewis

  American union leader, the President of United Mine Workers Union 1929-1960, awarded the Presidents Medal of Freedom in 1964.

• Luis Alvarado

  Puerto Rican baseball player (Born 1949).

• Encarnacion Alzona

  Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001).

• Frankie Carle

  Providence, Rhode Island -- Orchestra leader (Golden Touch).

• Rowland Evans

  White Marsh, Pennsylvania -- News reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak).

• Kim Walker

  American actress (Born 1968).

• Glenn Hughes

  American singer dancer and actor (Village People) (d. 2001).

• Gerardo Barbero

  Argentinian chess player and coach (d. 2001).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Joe - Stutter
2. Crazy Town - Butterfly
3. Shaggy - Angel
4. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
5. Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
2. Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long?
3. Shaggy featuring Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
4. Westlife - Uptown Girl
5. Janet Jackson - All For You