United States Historical Events is a daily guide to the important events that shaped America to what it is today. This is a compilation of significant events for the month of March including the birth and death of famous Americans as well as laws promulgated by authorities. The list is constantly updated to incorporate the most recent events.
United States Historical Events in March
| Day | Year | Event |
| 1 | 1790 | The United States Supreme Court convenes for the first time. |
| 1 | 1803 | Ohio became the 17th State to be admitted to the Union. |
| 1 | 1878 | Yellowstone became the first American National Park. |
| 1 | 1941 | The first FM station starts operation in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1 | 1961 | The United States Peace Corps was formally established to train and deploy volunteers for international development assistance. |
| 1 | 2003 | Establishment of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services which succeeded the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). |
| 2 | 1933 | The Original King Kong movie has its world premiere in New York. |
| 3 | 1797 | End of George Washington presidential term. |
| 3 | 1845 | Florida became the 27th State to be admitted to the Union. |
| 3 | 1885 | American Telephone and Telegraph Company was formally incorporated in New York to create the first nationwide long-distance network. |
| 3 | 1893 | Opening of the iconic 13-story, 450-room Waldorf Hotel in New York City. |
| 4 | 1794 | Vermont became the 14th state to be admitted to the Union. |
| 4 | 1794 | The Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) to the United States Constitution which restricts the ability of individuals to bring suit against states in federal court was passed by Congress. |
| 5 | 1956 | United States Supreme Court upholds a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities. |
| 6 | 1964 | Boxer Cassius Clay converts to Islam and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. |
| 7 | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his invention the telephone. |
| 7 | 1998 | Birth: Amanda Gorman, first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She delivered a poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden and became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. |
| 8 | 1874 | Death: Millard Fillmore, the 13th US president, died in Buffalo, New York at age 74. |
| 8 | 1965 | U.S. Marines were landed near Da Nang, South Vietnam marking the beginning of the American ground war during the Vietnam War. |
| 8 | 1930 | Death: William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, died in Washington, D.C. at age 72. |
| 9 | 1959 | Barbie dolls make debut at the International American Toy Fair in New York City. |
| 10 | 1810 | Birth: John McCloskey, the first American cardinal of the Catholic Church and the second archbishop of New York. |
| 10 | 1862 | The United States government issues paper money for the first time. |
| 11 | 1888 | The Great Blizzard starts. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine. |
| 11 | 1892 | The first public basketball game was played in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
| 12 | 1876 | Birthday: George Bergstrom, the American architect who designed the Pentagon. |
| 12 | 1912 | Girl Scouts of United States were founded by Juliette Low of Savannah, Georgia. |
| 13 | 1639 | A school established in 1636 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was renamed Harvard College in honor of John Harvard who donated £779 pounds sterling and some 400 books. This college became what is now Harvard University. |
| 13 | 1901 | Death: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd US president, died in Indianapolis, Indiana at age 67. |
| 14 | 1794 | Eli Whitney receives a patent for the Cotton Gin. |
| 14 | 1932 | George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, died by suicide with a single gunshot through the heart. |
| 15 | 1664 | Death: John Endecott, one of the Fathers of New England and the longest-serving governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 15 | 1767 | Birthday: Andrew Jackson, the 7th US president, was born in Waxhaw Settlement between North Carolina and South Carolina. |
| 15 | 1820 | Maine was admitted to the Union. |
| 15 | 1850 | American Express Company, an American multinational financial services corporation, was founded in Buffalo, New York. |
| 16 | 1751 | Birthday: James Madison, the 4th US president, was born in Virginia. |
| 16 | 1802 | Establishment of the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York. |
| 17 | 1931 | Legalization of gambling in the State of Nevada. |
| 18 | 1837 | Birthday: Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th US president, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey. |
| 19 | 2003 | President George W. Bush goes on live television to announce that Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun. |
| 20 | 1854 | The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. |
| 20 | 1922 | The United States Postmaster General requires all American homes to have a mailbox. |
| 20 | 2003 | The United States, joined by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, launched a “shock and awe” bombing campaign in Iraq prior to invasion. |
| 21 | 2006 | Foundation of social media company Twitter. |
| 22 | 1972 | The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the United States Senate and sent to the states for ratification. |
| 23 | 1868 | The University of California in Berkeley was established. |
| 23 | 1983 | President Ronald Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative or the so-called Star Wars Program. |
| 24 | 1989 | The super tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and tore open its hull, spilling 53 millions of gallons of oil. |
| 24 | 2023 | Gordon Moore, the American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder of Intel Corporation who proposed what is called Moore’s Law, dies at his home in Hawaii at age 94. |
| 25 | 1954 | RCA manufactures the first color television. |
| 26 | 1885 | The Eastman Dry Plate and Chemical Company manufactures the first motion picture film. |
| 27 | 1634 | St. Mary’s City (also known as Historic St. Mary’s City) was established and became the first European settlement in Maryland. |
| 27 | 1964 | The Good Friday Earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale happened in Anchorage, Alaska. |
| 28 | 1969 | Death: Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th US president, died in Washington, D.C. at age 78. |
| 28 | 1979 | The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power reactor in Pennsylvania began a partial meltdown, considered as the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. |
| 29 | 1790 | Birthday: John Tyler, the 10th US president, was born in Charles City, Virginia. |
| 29 | 1800 | William Matthews was ordained and became the first American-born Catholic priest. |
| 29 | 1819 | Birthday: Edwin Laurentine Drake, an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil. |
| 29 | 1918 | Birth: Sam Walton, an American business magnate who founded Walmart in 1962 and became the largest corporation and the largest private employer in the world. |
| 30 | 1867 | The United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. |
| 30 | 1848 | Birth: William Waldorf “Willy” Astor an American-British politician and businessman who built the iconic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. |
| 30 | 1981 | President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. |
| 30 | 2023 | Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in a scandal stemming from hush money payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, making him the first U.S. president to be indicted. (from wikipedia) |
| 31 | 1854 | The United States and Japan signed the Convention of Kanagawa which effectively ended Japan’s 220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku). |
| 31 | 1917 | The United States took possession of the Virgin Island and renamed it as Virgin Islands of the United States. |
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