In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

On 26 March 1982, Barbara Shuping and five other women were assigned to the NSF.

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.

As early as March 1982 ECMA TC24 with its corporate members reached agreement on a standard for CSMA / CD based on the IEEE 802 draft.

On March 23, 1982, army troops commanded by junior officers staged a coup d ' état to prevent the assumption of power by General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the hand-picked candidate of outgoing President and General Romeo Lucas García.

A half page debuted the following Sunday ( March 29 ), with the strips for March 14 and 21, 1982, having a unique nine-panel format, but UFS curtailed further use of it ( but it allowed Davis to use the format for his U. S. Acres strip ).

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

Jock Taylor ( March 9, 1954-August 15, 1982 ) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

* Film Dope ( London ), March 1982

Following successful legal action against it, on 21 March 1982 London Buses fares were subsequently doubled and London Underground fares increased by 91 %.

In March 1982, at the urging of Bad Brains ' H. R., Preslar left college to re-form Minor Threat.

This was agreed in March 1982.

( 1982 ) " Enigmas of Evolution " Newsweek, March 29, 1982.

He led the new party from March 1982 until after the 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed.

The Falklands War was precipitated on 19 March 1982 when a group of Argentinians, posing as scrap metal merchants, occupied the abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour on South Georgia.

In March 1982 the Sandinistas declared an official State of Emergency.

This was agreed in March 1982.

In 1978, Congress extended the previously-agreed-upon seven-year limit on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by more than three years from a March 22, 1979, original deadline to a June 30, 1982, revised deadline.

At the peak of their popularity, the band embarked on a major tour, but Partridge suffered a mental breakdown on stage during one of the first concerts of the tour in Paris on 18 March 1982.

Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads died in an airplane crash on March 19, 1982.

* March 4 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball catcher ( d. 1982 )

After over 30 years, the show switches to NBC on March 26, 1982.

On March 4, 1789, the Articles were replaced with the U. S. Constitution.

In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U. S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities.

On March 2, the circular formally filing the organization and capitalization ( at $ 1, 400, 000, 000 — 4 % of U. S. national wealth at the time ) of the United States Steel Corporation actually completed the contract.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

Next came a North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country in March – April 1970, to which U. S. and South Vietnamese forces responded by a limited ground incursion at the end of April ... The outcome in Indochina was not foreordained.

On March 31, 1854, the or was concluded between Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U. S. Navy and the Tokugawa shogunate.

The last horsed U. S. Cavalry ( the Second Cavalry Division ) were dismounted in March 1944.

Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.

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

He continued representing clients in federal courts until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against him on March 21, 1988.

( Parton's March 1983 performance at London's Dominion Theatre from this tour was filmed and broadcast as a television special in the U. S .) From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the Real Love Tour.

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.

The series was broadcast in the U. S. on Cartoon Network's action-oriented programing block Toonami, premiering on March 6, 2000 and ending on May 11, 2000.

One month later, in March 1920, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson intervened to block the Paris agreement.

In March 2006, during the Iraq War, a U. S. HMMWV performs guard duty at a military roadblock near Fallujah, Iraq.

Some U. S. states, like Georgia in 1830, passed a law which prohibited whites from living on Native American territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from the state.

The March 11 quake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and is the world's fourth largest earthquake to strike since 1900, according to the U. S. Geological Service.

The Massachusetts General Court elected Adams as a Federalist to the U. S. Senate soon after, and he served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party.

He resigned as Co-Chairman of Freedom Works in March 2005 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) questioned his ties to Samir Vincent, a Northern Virginia oil trader implicated in the U. N. Oil-for-food scandal who pled guilty to four criminal charges, including illegally acting as an unregistered lobbyist of the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

In March 1984, U. S. export controls were expanded to prohibit future exports to the Ra's Lanuf petrochemical complex.