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- Mar 1 At least 1000 Iranian school girls exposed to toxic gas attacks, since November, amid accusations they are an attempt to close schools after girls participated in recent anti-government protests [1]
Joni Mitchell Receives Gershwin Prize
Mar 1 Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 1 Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu declared the winner of Nigeria's Presidential election with 37% of the vote, amid claims of fraud from opposition parties [1]
- Mar 1 Social media site TikTok announces a 60-minute daily screen time limit for users under 18, though with an opt-out clause, in response to concerns about its addictive and harmful algorithms [1]
- Mar 2 South Carolina prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering his wife and son after a scandalous series of events [1]
- Mar 2 UN confirms it will ignore statements made by an Indian guru and now fugitive from the fictional country of the United States of Kailasa, made attending official UN events in Geneva [1]
- Mar 4 Andrew Tate's legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer
- Mar 4 Historic High Seas Treaty agreed by nations at the UN, aiming to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, 1st international ocean protection agreement for 40 years [1]
- Mar 4 Leaked US documents from the war in Ukraine from US Defence Department begin appearing on a Discord server associated with online game Minecraft [1]
Sports History
Mar 5 Caitlin Clark records 30 points, 17 assists, and 10 rebounds in the Big Ten tournament final for Iowa against Ohio State
- Mar 7 1.28 million people protest in nationwide demonstrations throughout France against government plans tp raise the pension age from 62 to 64 [1]
- Mar 7 British architect David Chipperfield is awarded Architecture's Pritzker Prize [1]
- Mar 7 China and America are heading toward inevitable "confrontation and conflict", unless America changes course warns Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang [1]
Gender Equality Slips Away
Mar 7 Gender equality now "300 years away” and "vanishing before our eyes" for reasons including maternal mortality and early marriage, according to UN Secretary General António Guterres in speech for International Woman's Day [1]
- Mar 8 171 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans, increasing from 16 trillion in 2005, estimate scientists from Gyres Institute [1]
- Mar 8 Oldest known reference to Norse god Odin from fifth century, revealed on gold disc from Vindelev hoard, Western Denmark, by Danish scientists [1]
- Mar 9 Recording Industry Association of America's 2022 year-end report states vinyl record sales (41 million) exceeded CD sales (33 million) for the first time since 1987
- Mar 9 Russia begins major missile attack on Ukrainian cities and their infrastructure, with at least 11 killed and 20 injured [1]
- Mar 9 UN announces it has purchased a crude carrier to remove barrels of oil from a stricken ship off the coast of Yemen, to prevent an environmental and humanitarian disaster [1]
- Mar 10 Arch rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to re-establish diplomatic ties between them in a surprise move, after talks in Beijing [1]
- Mar 10 California's Silicon Valley Bank, the main bank for tech-start ups, collapses after a sudden bank run and credit crisis - largest US bank fail since 2008 [1]
- Mar 10 Gary Lineker, the BBC’s highest-paid presenter, suspended for tweeting UK government's immigration policy a "immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s”. [1]
- Mar 10 Researchers in Singapore name newly discovered co*ckroach after the Pokemon character Pheromosa (Nocticola pheromosa) [1]
- Mar 10 Thai health authorities report 1.3 million people have suffered air pollution-related diseases in 2023 in northern Thailand due to smog nearly 125 times WHO standards from farm burning and forest fires [1]
Xi Clinches Third Term
Mar 10 Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms) [1]
- Mar 11 China's government appoints Li Qiang, a close ally of President Xi Jinping, as the country's new Premier [1]
95th Academy Awards
Mar 12 95th Academy Awards: "Everything Everywhere All at Once" best film, best director Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Michelle Yeoh second woman of color to win best actress, Brendan Fraser best actor [1]
- Mar 12 Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi, killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere (formed Feb 6) [1]
Rally Against Judicial Reform
Mar 12 Half a million Israeli's protest plans by Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the country’s judicial system for tenth week in a row [1]
- Mar 12 Oil company Saudi Aramco posts earnings of $161 billion for 2022 - highest-ever recorded annual profit by a publicly listed company [1]
PGA Players Championship
Mar 12 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Scottie Scheffler becomes third golfer, after Jack Nicklaus & Tiger Woods, to hold Masters & Players titles at same time; wins by 5 from England's Tyrrell Hatton
- Mar 13 Vinyl records outsell CDs in the US for the first time since 1987 (41 million vinyl records vs 33 million CDs), according to new report [1]
- Mar 14 Argentina's annual inflation rate pasts 100% at 102.5%, for the first time since hyperinflation in 1991, one of the highest in the world, according to its statistics agency [1]
- Mar 14 Czech free diver David Vencl completes record dive beneath ice to 52.1 meters, without a wetsuit, in Switzerland’s Lake Sils in temperatures between 1C and 4C (34F to 39F) [1]
- Mar 14 The US, UK and Australia unveil details of their AUKUS deal to create a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to be based in the Indo Pacific region to counter Chinese military build-up [1]
- Mar 14 US large MQ-9 Reaper drone crashes into the Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter jet, with the US saying the Russia forced it down sparking an international incident [1]
- Mar 15 Another atmospheric river creates a storm across California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages, with Monterey County issuing a 25 mile evacuation order [1]
- Mar 16 Banking jitters continues as US Wall Street banks agree to deposit US$30 billion in First Republic Bank as its stock plummets in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
Pension Reform
Mar 16 Emmanuel Macron’s government uses special powers to force through pension reform, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, amid widespread protests [1]
Japan and South Korea Hold Talks
Mar 16 South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold their first talks since 2011 in Tokyo, marking a milestone in relations between the two countries [1]
- Mar 19 UBS, Switzerland's largest bank agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse (established 1856) for about $3.2 billion to help ease global financial panic, in deal brokered by Swiss government [1]
- Mar 20 Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the first between the two since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago [1]
- Mar 20 Somalian drought may have killed 43,000 people in 2022, half of them children under five, according to new research presented by UNICEF in Mogadishu [1]
- Mar 20 Sri Lanka receives bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) worth $2.9bn, amid its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948 [1]
- Mar 20 UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says world has less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming: must reduce greenhouse gases by half by 2030, and cease adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by early 2050s [1]
- Mar 21 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan's north-east near the border with Pakistan, killing at least 19 and injuring over 200 people [1]
- Mar 21 Ugandan government passes Anti hom*osexuality Bill, including punishment of 10 years in prison for identifying as LGBTQ+ [1]
- Mar 22 Abel Prize for Mathematics (equivalent to a Nobel Prize) awarded to Argentinian–American Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations [1]
- Mar 22 American Library Association says 2022 had highest number of calls to censor library books in the US in over 20 years, with 2,571 titles affected, up 38%, with LGBTQ+ books most requested [1]
- Mar 22 American software engineer Bob Metcalfe awarded computing's Turing Award for developing Ethernet, a computer networking system now the industry standard [1]
Johnson Grilled Over Partygate
Mar 22 Former UK PM Boris Johnson is grilled by Government Privileges Committee over whether he intentionally misled parliament over COVID-19 rule breaches by his administration [1]
AI Revolution
Mar 22 Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980 [1]
Beethoven's DNA Analysis
Mar 22 New DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's hair reveals he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B, but doesn't explain his deafness [1]
Bad Cinderella
Mar 23 Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel's musical "Bad Cinderella" opens at Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 85 performances
Sports History
Mar 23 Harry Kane overtakes Wayne Rooney's record to become England's all-time greatest goalscorer in 2-1 victory over Italy with his 54th goal [1]
Sports History
Mar 23 Lewis Koumas makes his debut for the Wales U19 national team against Scotland U19
- Mar 23 TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew questioned for over four hours by a US congressional hearing over its Chinese security risks [1]
- Mar 23 Utah is the first state to limit social media for minors, including an overnight curfew and parental consents [1]
- Mar 24 Africa's first centralised biobank - Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa, collecting more than a million biodiversity samples opens in Pretoria, South Africa [1]
- Mar 24 Chocolate factory explosion in West Reading borough, Pennsylvania kills at least four people and injuries 10, with three missing [1]
- Mar 24 Supercell storm produces powerful EF-4 tornado in the Mississippi Delta, which stays on the ground for more than an hour and over 170 miles, killing 26 people [1]
- Mar 25 Rare, long-track tornado travels 170 miles from Rolling Fork to Armory, Mississippi; trail of devastation kills at least 25
- Mar 26 WPL Cricket Final, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai: Mumbai Indians win inaugural tournament beating Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets with 3 balls to spare; Player of the match: Nat Sciver-Brunt (Mumbai Indians) 60no
- Mar 27 At least 40 people are killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican US border, amid large numbers of migrants gathering on the Mexican border [1]
- Mar 27 Convicted rapist fakes his own death by pretending to set himself alight (in reality kills someone else) to escape from prison in South Africa, sparking large manhunt [1]
- Mar 27 Female shooter kills three children and three adults at private Christian school Convent Elementary, in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot and killed - 19th US school shooting in three months [1]
- Mar 27 Germany experiences one of its largest strikes in decades, bringing public transport comes to an almost complete halt, amid calls for higher wages [1]
- Mar 27 Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish SNP party as first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government and first Muslim to lead a major UK party
- Mar 27 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announces pause of key part of controversial plans to overhaul the justice system after massive protests and the country's largest trade union goes on strike [1]
- Mar 27 Possibility of bases on the Moon becomes greater possibility after 300 billion tonnes of water, stored in glass beads on Moon's surface, identified in lunar soil samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 [1]
- Mar 27 World's oldest tartan confirmed as up to 500 years old, after testing on material found 40 years earlier in Glen Affric bog, by experts at National Museums Scotland [1]
- Mar 28 Chris Sharma completes the first redpoint of Sleeping Lion in Siurana, Spain, a 9b+ (5.15c) route
Kamala Harris Visits Former Slave Port
Mar 28 US Vice President Kamala Harris visits former slave port Cape Coast Castle in Ghana as part of her tour of Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia [1]
- Mar 29 Researchers warn crucial deep Antarctic ocean currents could collapse by 42% by 2050, stopping nutrient-dense water from flowing north, accelerating ice melt and further warming the world's oceans [1]
First State Visit for Charles III
Mar 29 UK King Charles III makes his first state visit abroad to Germany, arriving in Berlin [1]
- Mar 29 United Arab Emirates leader and ruler of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan names his eldest son Khaled bin Mohamed crown prince of Abu Dhabi [1]
Trump Indicted in Manhattan
Mar 30 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on charges over hush payments paid to p*rn star Stormy Daniels - 1st US President to face criminal charges [1]
Open Letter to Pause AI Experiments
Mar 30 Key figures in Artificial Intelligence including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak sign open letter warning the race to develop AI systems is out of control, asking for suspension for at least six months [1] [2]
- Mar 31 Large storm system crosses the mid US from Mississippi and Alabama to Illinois and Wisconsin, unleashing numerous tornadoes and leaving at least 32 dead [1]
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