March 3, 1961 (Friday)
- Hassan II was formally enthroned as King of Morocco, one week after his father's death.
- The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the first of its "economy" rockets, the RM-90 Blue Scout II, designed to put payloads into space at a lower cost.
- Elsie May Batten, a 59-year-old shop assistant and wife of famed sculptor Mark Batten, was found stabbed to death with an antique dagger at the London curiosity shop where she worked. Her killer, Edwin Bush, became the first criminal to be caught by use of is later executed for her murder, the first British murderer to be caught by use of the Identikit system.
- Died: Paul Wittgenstein, 73, Austrian-born pianist
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
Where are the captains that govern mankind?
What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
March wind, and any old tune,
March march and how does it run.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)