* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan / Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

General Charles Chandler Krulak ( born March 4, 1942 ) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999.

Daniel Clement Dennett ( born March 28, 1942 ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Mountbatten, who was promoted to the acting rank of vice-admiral in March 1942, was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of The Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942, an operation resulting in the disuse of one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after war's end, the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

Between June 1942 and March 1943, student protests were calling for an end to the Nazi regime.

Alexander was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces in Burma, March 1942, and ordered Slim to abandon Mandalay and retreat to India.

Under Goebbels auspices the participating members ( e. g. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Brasillach ) founded the " Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung " ( European Writers ' League ), officially in March 1942.

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade ( commanded by Koča Popović ) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm, that caused severe damage to the historic centre and the Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area.

Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II.

In March 1942, with the assistance of Australia, the territory became an important Allied base, and Nouméa the headquarters of the United States Navy and Army in the South Pacific.

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock ( born 28 March 1942 ) is a British Labour Party politician.

On March 14, 1942, John Bumstead and Orvan Hess saved a dying patient's life using penicillin.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

* A Short Sunderland flying boat crashed in March 1942 between the Breakwater Fort and the breakwater lighthouse killing five passengers.

( 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942 ) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust.

In March 1942, further sweeps against Czech cultural and patriotic organisations, military, and intelligentsia resulted in the practical paralysis of Czech resistance.

Richard Bowman Myers ( born March 1, 1942 ) is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Photograph of Private Askin on his enlistment in March 1942.

Askin enlisted as a Private in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 30 March 1942.

Editor's note: Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR Research for 4 March 1961::

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

In March 1582 there was a skirmish in the streets of London between Oxford and Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet.

Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".

After Essex's co-conspirator Sir Charles Danvers was executed on in March, Oxford became involved in a complicated suit regarding lands which had reverted to the Crown by escheat at Danvers ' attainder, a suit opposed by Danvers ' kinsmen.

On March 26, 1895, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay isolated helium on Earth by treating the mineral cleveite ( a variety of uraninite with at least 10 % rare earth elements ) with mineral acids.

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.

Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.

He was prosecuted by Sir Hartley Shawcross and was convicted on 1 March 1950.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister after independence, on 12 March 1968.

Mauritius became a republic on 12 March 1992, with the last Governor General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, as interim President.

In June 1402, Sir Edmund Mortimer, the uncle of the Earl of March, was captured.

As far as can be ascertained, it was Sir John Herschel in a lecture before the Royal Society of London, on March 14, 1839 who made the word " photography " known to the world.

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* Sir Lyman Poore Duff ( as Chief Justice, ( March 17, 1933 – January 2, 1944 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, June 4, 1906 )

He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.

Sir Ralph Abercromby ( sometimes spelt Abercrombie ) ( 7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801 ) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

On 21 March 1646, the Royalists, commanded by Sir Jacob Astley, were defeated at the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, with hundreds of prisoners being confined for some time in St. Edwards.

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.