Devo announced in early 2009 that they would be performing at SXSW on March 20th, with a warmup show in Dallas on March 18th.

From the 5th century onward this cycle set its equinox to 25 March and fixed Easter to the Sunday falling in the 14th to the 20th of the lunar month inclusive.

" New Day " in Persian ): the Persian New Year ; the first day of the Persian calendar, i. e. 1st of Farvardin, is observed on the Vernal Equinox and usually coincides with March 21st, except for leap years when it coincides with March 20th.

Neighbours, which is celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2005, was aired on the US channel Oxygen in March 2004, however it attracted few viewers, perhaps in part because it was scheduled opposite well-established and highly popular US soap operas such as All My Children and The Young and The Restless, and due to low ratings it was cancelled shortly afterwards.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

He was first appointed as Chief Martial Law Administrator in 1969 ( 20th March ), succeeding Field Marshal Ayub Khan as military dictator and president in 1969 ( 25th MARCH1969 ), declaring martial law and dissolving much of the civilian infrastructure, government ministries and appointments, replacing them with military infrastructure and personnel instead.

* March 22 – Ding-a-dong by Teach-In ( music by Dick Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens ) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.

The ratification of the 20th Amendment on January 23, 1933 changed the opening of Congress from early March to early January, affecting the delivery of the annual message.

It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981 — the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight — with a crew of two.

In March 1779, Banks married Dorothea Hugessen, daughter of W. W. Hugessen, and settled in a large house at 32 Soho Square ( now comprising British offices for 20th Century Fox ).

All subsequent inaugurations were held on March 4th up until 1933 when the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution changed the inaugural date to January 20th.

Fox network's foundations were laid in March 1985 by News Corporation's $ 250-million purchase of 50 percent of TCF Holdings, the parent company of the 20th Century Fox movie studio.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

The 1947 Thames flood was worst overall 20th century flood of the River Thames, affecting much of the Thames Valley as well as elsewhere in England during the middle of March 1947 after a severe winter.

Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

The score by Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott was nominated in the " Scoring of a Musical Picture " category, and " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", written by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert won the award for Best Song at the 20th Academy Awards on March 20, 1948.

Marc Zaharovich Chagall ( ; ; ; ;) ( 28 March 1985 ), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.

Vaslav ( or Vatslav ) Nijinsky (; ; ; ; March 12, 1889 / 1890April 8, 1950 ) was a Russian danseur and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

The My Lai Massacre (, ;,, or ) was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of " Charlie " Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division.

Alice B. Toklas ( April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967 ) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century.

Mao Dun ( July 4, 1896 – March 27, 1981 ) was the pen name of Shen Dehong ( Shen Yanbing ), a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

In 2012, it is celebrated on March 5.

On 18 March 2012, Rowan Williams announced he would be stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of 2012.

* Metamath-a language for developing strictly formalized mathematical definitions and proofs accompanied by a proof checker for this language and a growing database of thousands of proved theorems ; while the Metamath language is not accompanied with an automated theorem prover, it can be regarded as important because the formal language behind it allows development of such a software ; as of March, 2012, there is no " widely " known such software, so it is not a subject of " automated theorem proving " ( it can become such a subject ), but it is a proof assistant.

** Zehra Kadriye Katırcıoğlu ( Istanbul 12 March 1929-Istanbul 15 May 2012 ), married Ahmet Cevat Tugay have 4 sons and a daughter

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

A sports bulletin from the BBC Sport Centre with Olly Foster in March 2012

From 5 March 2012 Sports Bulletins come from the BBC Sport Centre in MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.

As of March 2012 the main sports presenters on the channel are Olly Foster, Katie Gornall, Katherine Downes, Damian Johnson, Andrew Lindsay and Jenny Culshaw.

Until March 2012 bulletins came from the News Channel studio at 45 minutes past the hour.

* Conservative Party ' Cash for Access ' scandal, March 2012.

On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.

The two airmen had been NCOICs in medical units deployed to the War in Afghanistan and received the medals in March 2012.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

< http :// www. oed. com / view / Entry / 39766 >; accessed 20 March 2012 .</ ref > Other sources pre-date this use by nearly four decades to at least 1871, where it is used in The Journal of Mental Science reporting on a conference of the Fifth Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association ( now the Royal College of Psychiatrists ), held on Thursday, January 27th, 1870:

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" In March 2012, the now-retired Fidel Castro met Pope Benedict XVI during the latter's visit to Cuba ; the two men discussed the role of the Catholic Church in Cuba, which has a large Catholic community.

* " Chairman Ben Bernanke Lecture Series Part 1 " Recorded live on March 20, 2012 10: 35am MST at a class at George Washington University

It will convene immediately prior to the joint meeting of the Animals and Plants Committees, is scheduled for 22-24 March 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.

A video game controller called the X-SKIN, using this system, was expected to be commercially available by 2010 to help make MMORPGs popular on console systems and ease entry of common data such as a username and password, but announcement of its release was available on the In10did website as of 4 March 2012.

The cross was badly damaged again in March 2012, when a taxi crashed into it late at night demolishing two sides.

On 23 March 2012 Cessna announced that it is pursing building business jets in China as part of a joint venture with Aviation Industry Corporation of China ( AVIC ).