- March 2
- British stock trader Nick Leeson is arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC. [1] [29]
- Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed. [1]
- March 3
- In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends. [29]
- March 4
- Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital. [1]
- March 5
- Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election. [1]
- Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1]
- March 6
- Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of Internationale Nederlanden Groep Nevada, announces that his company will buy bankrupt Barings PLC Bank for a nominal price. [29]
- March 8
- Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece. [1]
- Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections. [1]
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- March 9
- President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns. [1]
- March 10
- Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed. [1]
- March 11
- President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament. [1]
- March 12
- Congress party loses India national election. [1]
- March 13
- Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death. [1]
- Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms. [1]
- Hungarian forint currency devalued 9 percent. [1]
- Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators. [1]
- David Daliberti and William Barloon, two Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq. [29]
- March 14
- Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [5] [29]
- March 16
- Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement; formally abolishes slavery. [1]
- March 17
- Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House. [1]
- US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co. [1]
- March 18
- Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada. [1]
- March 19
- Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election. [1]
- March 20
- Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first single of The Beatles since their 1970 breakup. [1]
- Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on five separate railway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring 4700. [1] [29]
- March 22
- Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist. [1]
- Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to Earth after setting a record for 438 days in outer space. [29]
- March 24
- For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland. [29]
- March 26
- The Schengen Agreement easing cross-border travel goes into effect in several European countries. [29]
- March 28
- Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge to form the world's largest bank. [1]
- March 30
- A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan. [29]
- March 31
- In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club. [1] [29]
- April 1
- The Blizzard Beach water park opens at Walt Disney World. [6]
- April 2
- An explosion in Gaza kills eight, including a Hamas leader. [29]
- April 14
- In Western Texas, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs. [53]
- April 19
- Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Murrah Federal Building. [1] [29]
- April 21
- In Samar, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- April 28
- Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die. [1]
- Sri Lankaan BAE748 plane crashes at Palaly, 52 die. [1]
- April 29
- Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. [1]
- April 30
- Royal Dutch/Shell begins towing oil-storage platform Brent Spar out to sea, to sink it 150 miles off the coast of Scotland in the Atlantic Ocean. A helicopter with Greenpeace activists attempts to land on the platform, with Shell firing water cannons. The event is captured on videotape, and shown to the world. A public outcry leads to protests at Shell gas stations, and boycott in Great Britain, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, resulting in a 20-50 percent sales drop. [287.379]
- After 120 years the last 15 A&S department stores close. [1]
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