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Marcelo Maisonnave
Marcelo Maisonnave is a Brazilian economist and entrepreneur who co-founded the brokerage XP Investimentos in Porto Alegre in 2001, leaving in 2014 before its 2019 Nasdaq listing.
Marcelo Negrao
Marcelo Negrão (Marcelo Teles Negrão), Brazilian volleyball opposite born 1972 in São Paulo; Barcelona 1992 Olympic champion whose serve sealed Brazil's first team-sport gold, FIVB world player 1993, later coach of Norde Vôlei.
Marcelo O. Dietrich
Marcelo O. Dietrich is a Brazilian physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies how hypothalamic AgRP neurons, the brain's hunger circuit, shape behavior from infancy through adulthood.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa (born 1948) is a Portuguese constitutional lawyer, PSD co-founder, Expresso director and TVI commentator who served as the 20th President of Portugal, elected 2016 with 52% and re-elected 2021, in office 9 March 2016 to 9 March 2026.
Marcelo Salas
Marcelo Salas (El Matador), Chilean striker born 1974 in Temuco; starred for Universidad de Chile, River Plate, Lazio, and Juventus; 37 goals in 70 Chile caps, 4 goals at France 98, Chile's record scorer until Alexis Sánchez.
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, known for modeling hydrogenase active sites.
Marcey L. Waters
Marcey L. Waters is a bioorganic chemist at UNC Chapel Hill who studies molecular recognition of histone modifications and won the 2023 Vincent du Vigneaud Award.
March
March is the third month of the Gregorian and Julian calendars, 31 days long, named for the Roman god Mars. Formerly the Roman first month; contains the equinox, St. Patrick's Day, and the Ides of March.
March (Mercurian crater)
March is an 83-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 30.95N, 176.30W, named in 1979 for Ausias March (1397-1459), the first major Catalan-language poet, under the IAU arts-and-humanities naming theme.
March 1
March 1, the 60th (61st in leap years) day of the Gregorian year with 305 days remaining in a common year; former Roman new year (Martius, Mars), Samiljeol in Korea, Saint David's Day, Zero Discrimination Day, UNESCO 1 March spring-thread traditions.
March 11
March 11, the 70th day of the Gregorian year, is marked by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, 2004 Madrid train bombings, 2020 WHO pandemic declaration, Lithuania's 1990 independence declaration, and births including Antonin Scalia and Douglas Adams.
March 12
March 12, the 71st day of the Gregorian year, marks the 1930 Salt March, the 1938 Anschluss, the 1947 Truman Doctrine, the 1912 founding of the Girl Scouts, and Mauritius National Day.
March 13
March 13, the 72nd day of the Gregorian year, marks William Herschel's 1781 discovery of Uranus, the 1943 Krakow ghetto liquidation, the 1933 US bank reopenings, the 1996 Dunblane massacre, Pope Francis's 2013 election, and Breonna Taylor's 2020 killing.
March 14
March 14, the 73rd day of the year, is Pi Day (3/14), founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw at San Francisco's Exploratorium, and the birthday of Albert Einstein (1879) and death day of Stephen Hawking (2018).
March 15
March 15, the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years), is the Ides of March, the date of Julius Caesar's 44 BC assassination, and marks World Consumer Rights Day, Hungary's Revolution Day, and events such as Nicholas II's 1917 abdication.
March 16
March 16, the 75th day of the year, hosts Freedom of Information Day, Black Press Day, National Panda Day, and National Vaccination Day, and marks the 1827 founding of Freedom's Journal, Goddard's 1926 liquid-fueled rocket launch, and West Point's 1802 founding.
March 17
March 17: calendar date of Saint Patrick's Day (death of Ireland's patron saint, circa 492) and Boston's Evacuation Day (British withdrawal, 1776), plus events from 1959 Dalai Lama flight to 1992 apartheid referendum.
March 18
March 18, the 77th day of the Gregorian year (78th in leap years), is marked by the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, the 1937 New London school explosion, Leonov's 1965 first spacewalk, the 1962 Évian Accords, and the 1990 Gardner Museum art heist.
March 19
March 19 is the 78th day of the Gregorian year (79th in leap years). Known as the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in the Western church and often the last day of astronomical winter; notable events include Nevada legalizing gambling in 1931 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
March 1933 German federal election
March 1933 German federal election, held 5 March 1933 under Nazi intimidation after the Reichstag fire; NSDAP won 43.9%, the last multi-party German election until 1949.
March 1st Movement
The March 1st Movement (삼일운동), also called the Samil Undong, was a nationwide wave of anti-Japanese independence demonstrations that began in Seoul on 1 March 1919.
March 2
March 2 is a date in the Gregorian calendar, known for the birth of Sam Houston in 1793 and the announcement of the top quark's discovery in 1995.
March 20
March 20, the 80th day of leap years, is the usual date of the March equinox and first day of Northern Hemisphere spring; notable events include Uncle Tom's Cabin's 1852 publication, the 1854 founding of the Republican Party, the 1995 Tokyo sarin attack, and the 2003 Iraq invasion.
March 2024 western Russia incursion
March 2024 western Russia incursion: cross-border raids into Belgorod and Kursk oblasts from 12 March 2024 by the Russian Volunteer Corps, Freedom of Russia Legion, and Siberian Battalion, timed before Russia's presidential election; Russia claimed 234 fighters killed.
March 2025 American deportations of Venezuelans
March 2025 US deportations of Venezuelans: removal of about 238 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT prison under the Alien Enemies Act, defying Judge Boasberg's turn-around order, later litigated in Trump v. J.G.G.
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip: resumption of the Israel-Hamas war on 18 March 2025 (Operation Strength and Sword), ending the 19 January ceasefire, with over 400 killed in the first strikes, an aid blockade from 2 March, and mass displacement.
March 2025 lunar eclipse
The March 2025 lunar eclipse was a total lunar eclipse on the night of March 13–14, 2025, the first since 2022, best visible from North and South America.
March 2025 Western Syria clashes
March 2025 Western Syria clashes: 6-10 March 2025 fighting between Syrian transitional security forces and pro-Assad armed groups such as the Coastal Shield Brigade in Latakia and Tartous, escalating into massacres of Alawite civilians; death tolls range from 803 to over 1,426.
March 2026 No Kings protests
March 2026 No Kings protests: third nationwide anti-Trump day of action on March 28, 2026, over 3,300 rallies in all 50 states, organizer-claimed 8 million attendees, flagship rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, focused on the Iran war and ICE.
March 2026 North American blizzard
The March 2026 North American blizzard was a major winter storm from March 14 to 16, 2026, dumping 30.9 inches on Wausau, Wisconsin, its largest snowstorm on record.