March 1: The USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia are struck from the Naval Vessel Register. - Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.

March 2: Recording sessions for the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

March 8: The Marx Brothers make their last television appearance, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery.

March 9: The Barbie doll debuts.

March 10: A Tibetan uprising against 10 years of Chinese rule erupts in Lhasa.

March 11: Een beetje by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands. - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway.

March 17: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet.

March 18: American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.

March 19: Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963), in the Maldives Islands.

March 31: Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida opens. - The Dalai Lama is granted asylum in India. (source: Wikipedia)