The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

In Film Comment March / April 1997

An agreement for Dalhousie to amalgamate with Technical University of Nova Scotia was made on 10 June 1996, with the act of amalgamation occurring 31 March 1997.

During a notorious game on March 26, 1997, a brawl ensued between Colorado goalie Patrick Roy and his Detroit counterpart Mike Vernon.

It became illegal in the United States on 30 March 1997, though according to a U. S. Centers for Disease Control estimate, 168, 000 girls living there as of 1997 had undergone it or are at risk.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

Animal protection magazine Animal People reported in March 1997 that Greenpeace France and Greenpeace International had sued Olivier Vermont and his publisher Albin Michel for issuing " defamatory statements, untruths, distortions of the facts and absurd allegations ".

* Debru A. Galen on Pharmacology: Philosophy, History, and Medicine: Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16 – 18 March 1995 BRILL 1997 ISBN 90-04-10403-8, ISBN 978-90-04-10403-7

The Hong Kong 1 July March is an annual protest rally led by the Civil Human Rights Front since the 1997 handover on the HKSAR establishment day.

In March 1997, an informative Annex I describing Error Tracking — an encoding technique for providing improved robustness to data losses and errors, was approved to provide information for the aid of implementers having an interest in such techniques.

Newsweek Magazine's March 10, 1997 issue also critiqued the ethics of human cloning, and included a graphic depicting identical babies in beakers.

At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

Major managed to survive to the end of the Parliament, but called an election on 17 March 1997 as the five-year limit for its timing approached.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

* Gwennap, Linley ( 31 March 1997 ).

She has one daughter, Tatiana ( born March 12, 1997 ) by Warren Walker.

Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.

In March 1991 and September 1997, Kid Rock was arrested in Michigan for alcohol related incidents.

Little penguins have also been reported from Chile ( where they are known as Pingüino pequeño or Pingüino azul ) ( Isla Chañaral 1996, Playa de Santo Domingo, San Antonio, 16 March 1997 ) and South Africa, but it is unclear whether these birds were vagrants.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 1990 season with a performance of Alceste starring Jessye Norman, while Catherine Naglestad appeared in ten performances of Alceste with the Stuttgart State Opera between January and March 2006.

Hall Johnson ( March 12, 1888 – April 30, 1970 ) was one of a number of American composers and arrangers — including Harry T. Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Eva Jessye — who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers.

An active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, Jessye and her choir participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Norman Hackerman ( March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007 ) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin ( 1967 – 1970 ) and Rice University ( 1970 – 1985 ).

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

* March 3 – Hayley Marie Norman, American actress and model

* March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle ( the Soyuz TM-21 ), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

* March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* March 26 – Henry I of England's forces defeat Norman rebels at Bourgtheroulde.

Crawford worked in the radio series The Screen Guild Theater on January 8, 1939 ; Good News ; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on Arch Oboler's Lights Out ; The Word on Everyman's Theater ( 1941 ); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and Norman Corwin's Document A / 777 ( 1948 ).

* C. E. Norman, Microscopy and Analysis, March 2002, P. 9-12

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC ( born 29 March 1931 ), is a British politician.

The following difficulty grading system is adapted from Norman Smith's " March Music Notes.

* Norman E. Smith " March Music Notes " Copyright 1993 by Norman E. Smith, Published by Program Note Press.

* Norman E. Smith " March Music Melodies " Copyright 1993 by Norman E. Smith, Published by Program Note Press.

These two marches are often called the Breton March and Norman March respectively.

* 4544 Xanthus ( 1989 FB ) is an Apollo NEO discovered on March 31, 1989 by Henry Holt and Norman G. Thomas at Palomar Observatory

Henry Norman Bethune ( March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939 ; Chinese name: 白求恩 ; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn ) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator.

In March 1970 Norman performed at the Youth for Christ-sponsored Faith Festival, the first major Jesus music festival, at Evansville, Indiana, which attracted 6, 000 people to hear him, Pat Boone and his family, Christian folk singer Gene Cotton, and Jesus rock artists Danny Taylor, Crimson Bridge, and e, a band that included Greg X. Volz.

In March 1972 Norman performed 38 concerts in 35 days, including a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in the Spring of 1972, for which he claims he was only given about $ 700 by the tour promoter.

By March 1975 Norman was attending the Little Brown Church in Studio City.

Norman and Mangano severed their business association, with Norman selling his interest in Street Level Artists Agency to Mangano, who subsequently resigned in October 1980 to start a new career in working to help the homeless, and becoming the Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness for seven years from March 2002,

In March 1981 Norman was featured on the cover of Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) magazine, and was the subject of an extended interview by CCM magazine founder John A. Styll entitled " Trials, Tribulations and Happy Endings ".

After a public memorial service held March 1, 2008, at The Church on the Hill, Turner, Oregon, Norman was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery, and his tombstone reads: " Larry Norman Evangelist Without Portfolio 1947 – 2008 Bloodstained Israelite ".