* March 10-Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed world Middleweight title with an eleventh round knockout of John Mugabi, Thomas Hearns wins the NABF Middleweight title with a first round knockout of James Shuler, and Gaby Canizales wins the WBA world Bantamweight title with a seventh round knockout of Richie Sandoval, who was critically injured and almost died in the days after the fight.

* March 22-James Shuler dies only twelve days after fighting Thomas Hearns, in a motorcycle accident, in Pennsylvania.

On 3 March 1986, Sandoval defended his title against Gaby Canizales, as part of a super-undercard organized by promoter Bob Arum, which included the Hearns versus Shuler and Hagler versus Mugabi encounters.

Espada lost his last important fight, against Thomas Hearns, by a knockout in round four at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, on March 2 of 1980.

Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere ) or March ( Southern Hemisphere ) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.

* 1516 14 March – Spain becomes a united kingdom under Charles I.

* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

* 15 March 1951 – Konrad Adenauer becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Chancellor when the Allies allow this post to be revived.

* 1672 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.

Lito Tangonan becomes the first bishop of the autonomous church and was consecrated March 17, 2012.

On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.

* March 29 – Radio Caroline becomes England's first pirate radio station, from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.

* March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.

* March 1 – Georgeana, Massachusetts ( now known as York, Maine ) becomes the first incorporated city in America.

* March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.

* March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Gaullists win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.

* March 9 – A team from Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition becomes the first to reach the crater of Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

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* March 14 – The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence ; priest Jozef Tiso becomes the president of the independent Slovak government.

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* March 4 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term ; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President.

* March 18 – President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority ( WRA ), which becomes responsible for the internment of Americans of Japanese and, to a lesser extent, German and Italian descent, many of them legal citizens.

* March 1 – Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army.

* March 21 – After 75 years of South African rule, Namibia becomes independent.

* March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.

* 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 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes Attorney General of the United States through recess appointment.

* March 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

* March 23 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, and a national holiday is observed in the country including the former East Pakistan state.

As of March 2007, Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnut, cherry, fig, apricot, quince and pomegranate ; the second largest producer of watermelon, cucumber and chickpea ; the third largest producer of tomato, eggplant, green pepper, lentil and pistachio ; the fourth largest producer of onion and olive ; the fifth largest producer of sugar beet ; the sixth largest producer of tobacco, tea and apple ; the seventh largest producer of cotton and barley ; the eighth largest producer of almond ; the ninth largest producer of wheat, rye and grapefruit, and the tenth largest producer of lemon.

Founded on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California, and the last to be established by Father Junípero Serra.

In March 2008, Business Wire reported " Janet Jackson is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music ; ranked by Billboard magazine as the ninth most successful act in rock and roll history, and the second most successful female artist in pop music history.

Several months had passed between the naming of what was believed to have been the ninth planet, Pluto, on March 24, 1930, and the attachment of that name to the dog character.

In March 2010, NBC began airing the ninth season of The Celebrity Apprentice featuring Lauper and other celebrities such as Sharon Osbourne and Bret Michaels.

During the Civil War, on the ninth of March in 1937, he married Josefina Manresa Marhuenda, whom he had met in 1933 in Orihuela.

He was succeeded by his son, the ninth Earl of Wemyss and fifth Earl of March.

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and Ipswich and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1918 to 1937. the titles are held by the thirteenth Earl of Wemyss and ninth Earl of March, who succeeded in 2008.

Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko married the ninth daughter of Emperor Meiji, Princess Toshiko ( 11 May 1896 – 5 March, 1978 ), on 18 May 1915.

The band's ninth album In A Cave was released in March 2008 on Rykodisc.

In 1987, he received his ninth Grammy award nomination and on March 2, 1988 his third Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Song as songwriter for the re-recording of Lean On Me by Club Nouveau on their debut album Life, Love and Pain, released in 1986 on Warner Bros. Records.

Five days later, on March 22, 2010, Zach Braff announced, via the official Facebook page, that the ninth season of Scrubs would be the last, commenting that ; " Many of you have asked, so here it is: it appears that ' New Scrubs ', ' Scrubs 2. 0 ', ' Scrubs with New Kids ', ' Scrubbier ', ' Scrubs without JD ' is no more.

On March 4, 1978, he disposed of Harold Weston in the ninth round after Weston also sustained a broken jaw like Cuevas ' previous challenger.

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format.

It passed briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the eighth century before its conquest by the Franks, who by the end of the ninth century termed it Gothia or the Gothic March ( Marca Gothica ).

Thomas Fletcher Neelands ( March 8, 1862 – December 2, 1944 ) was the ninth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1902 to 1903.

Joe Edward Purcell ( July 29, 1923 – March 5, 1987 ) was the Acting Governor of Arkansas for six days in 1979 as well as Arkansas Attorney General from 1967 – 1971 and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1975 – 1981.

In her ninth fight, in March 1998, Anani defeated Andrea DeShong, a longtime rival of world welterweight champion Christy Martin.

The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games, the ninth Winter Paralympics, took place in Turin, Italy from 10 to 19 March 2006.

* March 24: The fight that inspired the movie Rocky: With a young Sylvester Stallone sitting at home and watching, Muhammad Ali retains his world Heavyweight championship with a fifteenth round knockout over underdog Chuck Wepner, but not without suffering a ninth round knockdown first, in Cleveland.

* March 12-Alberta election: Ralph Klein's PCs win a ninth consecutive majority

On 18 March 2009, they won the Best Irish Pop Act on 2009 Meteor Awards for the ninth consecutive time.

Grace Lumpkin was born on March 3, 1891, in Milledgeville, Georgia, the ninth of eleven children born to Annette Caroline Morris and William Wallace Lumpkin.

In March 2011 though, it was announced that the ninth series would see the show return to a post-watershed slot on BBC Two.