March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of the seven months which are 31 days long.March in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Northern Hemisphere.
The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season. January became the first month of the calendar year either under King Numa Pompilius (circa 713 B.C.) or under the Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers differ).The numbered year began on March 1 in Russia until the end of the fifteenth century. Great Britain and her colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, which was when they ultimately adopted the Gregorian calendar. Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.
March 1, 2009,
March 1, 2009, Canada's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute discovers a new method to create embryonic-like stem cells that could cure spinal-cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. (CTV News)
March 1, 2009, The United States Coast Guard searches Florida's west coast for a fishing vessel carrying National Football League players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith. (Fox News)
March 1, 2009, China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1, impacts the Moon. (Xinhua News)
March 1, 2009, The United States, Israel, and Canada will boycott the Durban Review Conference. (Jewish News Weekly)
March 1, 2009, ASEAN concludes its annual summit in Hua Hin, Thailand, and calls for coordinated action against the current recession. (Reuters)
March 2, 2009, Gov. Schwarzenegger Delivers Remarks at CeBIT 2009 Opening Ceremony.
March 2, 2009, Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January after six successive monthly declines. (AP via MSNBC) March 2, 2009, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls below 7,000 for the first time since 1997. (MarketWatch)
March 3, 2009,
March 3, 2009,
March 3, 2009, Vatican hosts Darwin conference.(Link)
March 3, 2009, United States President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at the White House. (BBC)
March 4, 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez orders the nationalization of United States-based food company Cargill. (CNN)
March 4, 2009, Gordon Brown becomes the United Kingdom's fifth Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. (BBC)
March 5, 2009,
March 5, 2009, General Motors acknowledges in its annual report that its death is in "substantial doubt". (New York Times)
March 5, 2009, The Bank of England plans to create £75 billion for the United Kingdom's economy through quantitative easing. (BBC)
March 5, 2009, Somali pirates release Egypt's MV Blue Star. (IHT)
March 6, 2009, Release of Phoebe in Wonderland
March 6, 2009, Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 16: "Our Selves Along"
March 6, 2009, Clinton's Russian 'Reset' Button Reads 'Overcharge'
March 6, 2009, 'Mafia Cops' Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa sentenced to life in prison.
March 6, 2009,
March 6, 2009, The European Union will transfer to Kenya suspected Somali pirates captured during Operation Atalanta. (AFP via Google News)
March 6, 2009, A protestor from Plane Stupid throws custard at United Kingdom Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Peter Mandelson during a low-carbon summit in London. (BBC)
March 7, 2009, The United Kingdom's government increases its ownership stake in Lloyds Banking Group from 43% to at least 60%. (BBC)
March 7, 2009, NASA launches its Kepler spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (CNN)
March 8, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of Breaking Bad
March 8, 2009,
Last night's Saturday Night Live was hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and he showed what happens when you finally cause President Obama to lose his famous cool: he undergoes a Hulk-like transformation and turns into "The Rock Obama." Egged on By Rahm Emanuel to finally get mad, "The Rock Obama" shows Republican senators why you shouldn't oppose him.
March 8, 2009,
March 8, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Operation Enduring Freedom's forces are "not winning" the war in Afghanistan. (BBC)
March 9, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama lifts George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. (Reuters)
March 9, 2009, Series Premiere of Castle
March 9, 2009, Argentina and Chile reject the United Kingdom's claims on Antarctic territory. (Sky News) March 9, 2009, North Korea says an interception of its upcoming "satellite" launch would "mean a war." (CNN)
March 9, 2009, Japan's economy posts a record deficit of 172.8 billion yen. (Press Association)
March 10, 2009, The United States Senate passes a US$410-billion omnibus spending bill. (CNN)
March 10, 2009, At least ten people are killed during a shooting spree in Geneva County, Alabama, United States. (CNN)
March 10, 2009, The Employee Free Choice Act is introduced into the U.S. Congress. (New York Times)
March 11, 2009, Life on Mars S:1 Ep:14
On March 2, 2009, it was announced that ABC would not be ordering a second season, cancelling the series. The decision was made early in order to give the producers enough time to wrap up the show's storyline, but the network will air all of the 17 episodes it has ordered.
March 11, 2009, The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration delays the Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station due to a hydrogen gas leak. (AP via Google News)
March 11, 2009, China's exports contract 25.7%, the worst decline since 1993. (Xinhua)
March 11, 2009, The Liberal Democrats claim that more than 1,000 police officers in the United Kingdom have criminal records. (BBC)
March 11, 2009, Former Iraqi Intelligence Service Director Ali Hassan al-Majid and former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz are sentenced to 15 years in jail for crimes against humanity. (Sky News)
March 11, 2009, President Nicolas Sarkozy announces that France will rejoin NATO's military command. (Reuters)
March 12, 2009, 30 Rock S3 Ep14: The Funcooker.
This week Liz Lemon launches her newest campaign to take charge of life "like a phoenix rising from the ashes."
March 12, 2009, China's retail sales have increased 15.2% in 2009. (Xinhua News)
March 12, 2009, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi is sentenced to three years in prison for throwing shoes at then-United States President George W. Bush. (AP)
March 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges mistakes in rescinding Bishop Richard Williamson's excommunication for Holocaust denial. (Washington Post)
March 12, 2009, American businessman Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to 11 charges surrounding his US$65-billion Ponzi scheme. (BBC)
March 12, 2009, Astronauts aboard the International Space Station briefly evacuate to a Russian escape pod as space debris passes. (Sky News)
March 13, 2009, Release of Race to Witch Mountain.
March 13, 2009, Prince Will speaks about mother for first time
March 13, 2009, The United States abandons the term "enemy combatant" for detainees at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp. (New York Times)
March 14, 2009, The G20 meets in Horsham, West Sussex, England, to discuss the global financial crisis. (BBC)
March, 14, 2009, New York — A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it for less than a buck.
It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a likely testament to the volume's rarity and its excellent condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.
The winning bid for the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.
March, 14, 2009, Michelle Obama will have a comic book to be released in April.
She's not faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive.Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Hardly. But First Lady Michelle Obama is poised to become a superhero next month when a biographical comic book hits the stands.
March 15, 2009, The Ides of March is the name of the date 15 March in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October.In Roman times, the Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held.
In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC, the story of which was famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.
March 15, 2009, Series Premiere of Kings
March 15, 2009, Simpson's: Gone Maggie Gone
March 15, 2009, Space Shuttle Discovery launches.
March 15, 2009, Discovery's Surprise: Did Bat hitch a Ride to Space?
The bat, seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday, apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank as the spaceship lifted off.
March 16, 2009, Josef Fritzl of Austria pleads guilty to charges of rape, incest, sequestration, and grievous bodily harm. (AP via The Melbourne Age)
March 17, 2009, The New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur passes Patrick Roy to becomes the National Hockey League's winningest goaltender. (ESPN)
March 17, 2009, Saint Patrick's Day.
March 17, 2009, United States President Barack Obama meets Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Northern Irish First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the White House. (BBC)
March 17, 2009, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes its final print edition and becomes an online newspaper. (Seattle PI)
March 17, 2009, The European Space Agency's Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. (AP)
March 17, 2009, Nokia will cut 1,700 jobs. (Forbes)
March 18, 2009,
If you’re looking for guidance in your NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament pool, you now have a new source to turn to for guidance: President Obama. ESPN has posted the bracket filled out by Mr. Obama, who predicts that the North Carolina Tar Heels will win the tournament.
Tar Heel is a nickname applied to the state and inhabitants of North Carolina. "Tar Heel" is also the nickname of the University of North Carolina athletic teams and students.
The exact etymology of the nickname is unknown, but most experts believe its roots come from the fact that tar, pitch and turpentine created from the vast pine forests were one of North Carolina's most important exports early in the state's history.
March 18, 2009, The Office for National Statistics reports that 2.04 million people in the United Kingdom are unemployed. (Sky News)
March 18, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI denounces the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS during a tour of Africa. (RTÉ)
March 18, 2009, Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben Bernanke caps United States Treasury Department yields. (Bloomberg)
March 19, 2009, A 7.9-magnitude earthquake occurs and the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano erupts in the Pacific Ocean near Tongatapu, Tonga. (MSNBC)
March 19, 2009, North Korea detains two American Current TV journalists near its border with China. (Guardian)
March 19, 2009, The United States House of Representatives votes to levy a 90% tax on executive compensation from companies aided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (New York Times)
March 19, 2009, Josef Fritzl of Austria is sentenced to life imprisonment on all charges. (CNN)
March 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI leads a Roman Catholic Mass in Yaoundé, Cameroon. (BBC) March 20, 2009, Release of Knowing.
March 20, 2009, The United States Navy's USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collide in the Strait of Hormuz. (CNN)
March 20, 2009, Somali pirates hijack the Greek cargo ship MV Titan. (CNN)
March 20, 2009, The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory discovers Y(4140), a new subatomic particle. (National Geographic)
March 21, 2009, Two people are killed and eight injured during a stampede to see Pope Benedict XVI in Luanda, Angola. (RTÉ)
March 21, 2009, One hundred thousand people protest against the Sicilian Mafia and Camorra in Naples, Italy. (BBC)
March 22, 2009, Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts. (CNN)
March 22, 2009, A Pilatus PC-12 crashes near Butte, Montana, killing at least 17 people. (CNN)
March 22, 2009, Four police officers are killed in Oakland, California, United States. (CNN)
March 22, 2009, Thousands of people assemble for Pope Benedict XVI's Catholic Mass in Luanda, Angola. (BBC)
March 22, 2009, Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts four more times. (Physorg)
March 23, 2009, The United States Treasury Department announces that it will purchase high-yield debts from banks. (Reuters)
March 23, 2009, FedEx Express Flight 80 crashes at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, killing both pilots. (CNN)
March 24, 2009, The Lady Mary, a fishing vessel, sinks off the coast of Cape May.
March 24, 2009, Japan defeats South Korea to win the World Baseball Classic. (ESPN)
March 24, 2009, The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index reaches zero percent for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
March 24, 2009, China's government blocks access to the YouTube video-sharing website. (New York Times)
March 24, 2009, The United States' federal government announces a plan to increase security along its border with Mexico. (Reuters)
March 25, 2009, In phoned conversation to the Space Shuttle, President Barack Obama asked the astronauts if they "still drink Tang up there."
March 26, 2009, 30 Rock Ep 3 x 16 Apollo, Apollo.
"Computer, when do I get my tang? Also I'm thirsty. Word play!" - Tracy Jordan
March 25, 2009, A United States Air Force F-22 Raptor crashes near Edwards AF Base in California, killing its pilot. (AP via Star-Telegram)
March 25, 2009, North Korea prepares a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile for a launch between April 4 and 8. (Sky News)
March 26, 2009, International Space Station Expedition 19 launches aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
March 26, 2009, United States President Barack Obama announces a new military strategy for the War in North-West Pakistan and the War in Afghanistan. (CNN)
March 27, 2009, Release of Monsters Vs Aliens
March 27, 2009, Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles Ep. 2 x 20 To the lighthouse.
March 27, 2009, A radioactive lead ball containing Caesium-137 is missing from a deconstructed factory in Tongchaun, Shaanxi, China. (RTÉ)
March 27, 2009, Russia will establish a military force to protect its territorial claims in the Arctic. (BBC)
March 27, 2009, The Lancet accuses Pope Benedict XVI of "distorting...science" in his argument against the use of condoms. (BBC)
March 27, 2009, The United Kingdom's economy contracted by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. (Sky News)
March 28, 2009, Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.
March 28, 2009, Vast Spy systems loots computers in 103 countries.
March 28, 2009, Millions of people worldwide recognize Earth Hour by deactivating unnecessary lighting. (RTÉ)
March 28, 2009, Demonstrators in London, England, demand that the G20 combat poverty, climate change, and unemployment. (BBC)
March 28, 2009, The Red River rises above 40 feet, causing emergency evacuations in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. (BBC)
March 28, 2009, Spain's Central Court of Instruction will investigate whether former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other American officials violated international law by justifying torture. (New York Times)
March 29, 2009, General Motors Chairman/CEO Rick Wagoner resigns. (CNN)
March 29, 2009, Jenson Button of Brawn GP wins Formula One's 2009 Australian Grand Prix. (The Times)
March 29, 2009, A gunman kills at least eight people and injures three others at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, United States. (CNN)
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