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Recent Deaths

March 19: Mohammad Ali 18: Bill Beutel 17: Narvin Kimball 17: Ray Meyer 17: Oleg Cassini 14: Lennart Meri 13: Peter Tomarken 13: Maureen Stapleton 13: Jimmy Johnstone 11: Bernie Geoffrion 11: Jesús Miguel Rollán Prada 11: Slobodan Milošević 10: Tom Fox 10: Anna Moffo 10: John Profumo 7: Gordon Parks 7: Ali Farka Touré 6: Dana Reeve 6: Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi 6: Kirby Puckett 5: Milan Babić 3: Ivor Cutler 3: William Herskovic 1: Jack Wild 1: Harry Browne 1: Peter Osgood

Events

Upcoming - March Ongoing • Abramoff scandal • Ariel Sharon illness • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Black sites scandal • CIA leak grand jury investigation • Dubai Ports World controversy • Horn of Africa food crisis • Iran's nuclear program • Labor protests in France • Liberal leadership race in Canada • Malawi food crisis • Malaysian Baldgate scandal • Montenegrin independence campaign • Muhammad cartoons controversy • NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament • North Indian cyclone season • NSA Spying Controversy • Formation of a new Iraqi government • Pacific typhoon season • Southern Hemisphere cyclone season – Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry • Southern Leyte mudslide • XVIII Commonwealth Games Recent • 78th Academy Awards

Ongoing armed conflicts
• Acholiland insurgency • Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Iraq War • Ituri conflict in the DR Congo • Ivorian Civil War • Nepal Civil War • Second Chechen War • South Thailand insurgency

Elections

Upcoming - March 26: São Tomé & Príncipe, Parliament 26: Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada 28: Israel, Knesset Upcoming - April 2: Thailand, legislature 9: Peru, President and parliament 9 and 10: Italy, Parliament 9 and 23: Hungary, Parliament 15: India, State legislature Results - March 19: Belarus, President 18: South Australia, legislative election 18: Tasmania, legislative election 12: El Salvadoran legislative elections 12: Colombian legislative elections 11: Malta, Local Council Elections 6: Netherlands, municipal 1: South Africa, municipal Results - February 23: Uganda, President and Parliament 15: Tokelau, referendum on future status 12: Cape Verde, President 8: Nepal, municipality election 7: Haiti, General 5: Costa Rica, Pres. and Legislative

Trials

Upcoming Israel: Mordechai Vanunu Libya: Benghazi Six U.S.: Conrad Black U.S.: Lewis "Scooter" Libby Ongoing Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition process) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICTY Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui

Upcoming holidays and observances

March 22: World Day for Water 23: Republic Day (Pakistan) 24: World Tuberculosis Day 25: Maryland Day (Maryland, USA) 25: Feast of the Annunciation (W.Christianity) 26: Laetare Sunday / Rose Sunday (W.Christianity) 26: Mothering Sunday (United Kingdom) 29: Ugadi/Telugu New Year Day (India) 30: Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago) 31: Freedom Day (Malta) 31: César Chávez Day (various U.S. states) 31: Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey, USA) April 1: April Fool's Day 3: (Temporary) International Umbrella Day 9: Bataan Day (Philippines) 14: Tamil New Year Day (India)

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