Month March 2005 Calendar

About Month of March Calendar

• March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
  
  March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).

Historical Events for March, 2005

• Day of Week 1st » Supreme Court of the United States called U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,".
• Day of Week 3rd » Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-Wes
• 3rd » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
• Day of Week 10th » Tung Chee-hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
• Day of Week 12th » Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
• Day of Week 16th » Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
• Day of Week 23rd » Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
• Day of Week 28th » The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.

Famous Deaths for March 2005

• 1st » Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
• 2nd » Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (b. 1911)
• 2nd » Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
• 3rd » Max Fisher, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 4th » Nicola Calipari, Italian general (b. 1953)
• 4th » Robert Consoli, American actor and singer (b. 1964)
• 4th » Una Hale, Australian-English soprano (b. 1922)
• 4th » Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian police officer and politician (b. 1951)
• 4th » Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-Belarusian author and activist (b. 1934)
• 6th » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 6th » Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 6th » Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943)
• 6th » Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• 7th » John Box, English production designer (b. 1920)
• 7th » Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
• 8th » César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
• 8th » Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
• 9th » Chris LeDoux, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 9th » Kurt Lotz, German businessman (b. 1912)
• 9th » István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 9th » Jeanette Schmid, Czech-Austrian whistler (b. 1924)
• 10th » Dave Allen (comedian) e.g Dave Allen, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1936)
• 10th » Danny Joe Brown, American singer-songwriter (Molly Hatchet and The Danny Joe Brown Band) (b. 1951)
• 12th » Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
• 12th » Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932)
• 15th » Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
• 15th » Otar Korkia, Georgian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 15th » Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
• 16th » Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
• 16th » Ralph Erskine (architect) e.g Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed the The London Ark (b. 1914)
• 16th » Anthony George, American actor (b. 1921)
• 16th » Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
• 16th » Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 17th » Royce Frith, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
• 17th » George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 17th » Andre Norton, American author (b. 1912)
• 19th » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
• 20th » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 21st » Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
• 21st » Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
• 22nd » Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (Foghat) (b. 1947)
• 22nd » Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (b. 1913)
• 25th » Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1911)
• 26th » James Callaghan, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
• 26th » Gérard Filion, Canadian journalist (b. 1909)
• 26th » Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz, Crowded House, Deckchairs Overboard, and Tarmac Adam) (b. 1959)
• 26th » Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 26th » Frederick Rotimi Williams Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
• 26th » Frank Searle (photographer) named Frank Searle, Scottish photographer (b. 1921)
• 27th » Bob Casey (baseball announcer) called Bob Casey, American announcer (b. 1925)
• 27th » Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon (b. 1913)
• 27th » Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921)
• 27th » Ahmed Zaki (actor) or Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor and producer (b. 1949)
• 28th » Moura Lympany, English pianist (b. 1916)
• 28th » Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 29th » Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
• 29th » Mitch Hedberg, American comedian and actor (b. 1968)
• 29th » Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
• 30th » Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
• 30th » Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
• 30th » Milton Green, American hurdler (b. 1913)
• 30th » Fred Korematsu, American activist (b. 1919)
• 30th » Derrick Plourde, American drummer (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, The Ataris, Mad Caddies, and Rich Kids on LSD) (b. 1971)
• 30th » Don Rose, American radio host (b. 1934)
• 30th » Chrysanthos Theodoridis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 30th » O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 31st » Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
• 31st » Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
• 31st » Frank Perdue, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 31st » Terri Schiavo, American medical patient (b. 1963)

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