Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

* Michael Browne, OP ( 20 January 1971 – 31 March 1971 )

* Federico Callori di Vignale ( 31 March 1971 – 8 August 1971 )

* Charles Journet ( 8 August 1971 – 5 March 1973 )

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971.

* In the March 1971 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei: Because visitors from the future were causing too much trouble, the government in the 22nd Century passed a bill to ban time-travelling altogether, meaning Doraemon would have to return to his time era.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

On 26 March 1971, the day after the military crackdown on civilians in East Pakistan, Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh.

Finally, on 26 March 1971, Bangladesh emerged as an independent state.

* March: ( March 1, 1971, Tuntsa, Salla, Lapland )

In March 1971 elements of the military were deployed to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Stevens, appeared to start losing his control of the military.

Stevens visited Conakry on 19 March 1971, and soon afterwards, around 200 Guinean soldiers were despatched to Freetown.

According to Moore's own letter he applied to the already existing organization in March 1971.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

MacLean received a Nebula Award in 1971, for her novella " The Missing Man " ( Analog, March, 1971 ) and she was a Professional Guest of Honor at the first WisCon in 1977.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Bonn on 7 March 1945, and the US 1st Infantry Division captured the city during the battle of 8 – 9 March 1945.

Freed for a US $ 60 million ransom ( the largest on record at that time ), the ordeal triggered the company headquarters ' relocation to São Paolo, Brazil, and contributed to the March 1976 coup.

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

US − Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly beginning in March 1983, when US President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

* Dennis the Menace ( U. S. comics ), a daily US syndicated newspaper comic strip since March 12, 1951.

During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

By the mid-eighties, bands began proliferating and became increasingly popular, including The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission ( known as The Mission UK in the US ), Alien Sex Fiend, The March Violets, Ausgang, Kommunity FK, Xmal Deutschland, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Bolshoi, and Fields of the Nephilim.

Yet, seven years after the Allies ’ Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.

In a 9 March 2006 press release, HBC announced that Zucker would replace George Heller as the new Governor and CEO, to become the first US citizen to lead the company.

As a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, hedge fund advisers with at least US $ 15 million in assets under management were required to register with the SEC by March 30, 2012 ; smaller advisers are subject to state registration.

In addition to US hedge funds, many overseas funds with more than 15 US clients and investors, and managing more than US $ 25 million for these clients, are to register with the SEC by March 30, 2012.

At the meeting of ICANN in Rome, which took place from March 2 to March 6, 2004, ICANN agreed to ask approval of the US Department of Commerce for the Waiting List Service of VeriSign.

In March 1982, the US Department of Defense declared TCP / IP as the standard for all military computer networking.

Japan was the number one foreign investor in the ASEAN countries, with cumulative investment as of March 1989 of about US $ 14. 5 billion, more than twice that of the United States.

NASA appealed and the US Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 8, 2010.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

In March 1872 a German Imperial Naval Academy was created at Kiel for training officers, followed in May by the creation of a ' Machine Engineer Corps ', and in February 1873 a ' Medical Corps '.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

He died on 10 March 1918 in the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, after contracting typhoid.

* March 18 – William P. Cronan, Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1879 )

* March 22 – Templin Potts, American naval officer ; 11th Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1855 )

* March 6 – William P. Cronan, 19th Naval Governor of Guam ( d. 1929 )

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

In March 1961, Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, recommended the establishment of guerrilla and counter-guerrilla units.

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

Four university fight songs commonly used by high schools are the University of Michigan's " The Victors ", The University of Illinois ' " Illinois Loyalty ", the University of Notre Dame's " Victory March ", and the United States Naval Academy's " Anchors Aweigh ".

The naval Battle of Yamen () ( also known as the Naval Battle of Mount Ya ; ) took place on 19 March 1279 and is considered to be the last stand of the Song Dynasty against the invading Mongol-controlled Yuan Dynasty.

The Naval Research Laboratory commemorated the event with a day-long meeting at NRL on March 17, 2008.

In an episode of the television series Bonanza ( Look to the Stars, broadcast March 18, 1962 ), Ben Cartwright ( Lorne Greene ) helps the 16-year-old Albert Abraham Michelson ( portrayed by 25-year-old Douglas Lambert ( 1936 – 1986 )) obtain an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of the bigoted town schoolteacher ( played by William Schallert ).

During March and April 1979, the Prince was enrolled at the Royal Naval College Flight, undergoing pilot training, until he was accepted as a trainee helicopter pilot and signed on for 12 years from 11 May 1979.

* By 29 March 2005, all detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base had received hearings before Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

* 1936 Second London Naval Treaty ( 25 March )

; 1951: In early March, Truman nominates Alan T. Waterman, the chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, to become the first Director of the fledgling agency.

A number of former German soldiers of the 216th Marine-Flak-Abeitlung ( Naval Flak Battalion ) were tried for war crimes by the Dachau International Military Tribunal, from February 6 to March 21, 1946 ( US v Kurt Goebell et al .).

Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL ( 17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980 ) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

A March 1905 issue of The Technical World describes the role of the United States Naval Observatory as a source of time signals: