March 1: Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious until his death on March 5. - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.

March 6: Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

March 8: The Thieves World which had been transformed into the Russian Mafia are freed from prisons by the Malenkoy regime which ends the Bitch Wars.

March 13: The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold as United Nations Secretary General.

March 14: Nikita Khrushchev is selected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

March 17: The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot-Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 mi).

March 18: An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.

March 19: The 25th Academy Awards ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).

March 25-26: Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.

March 26: Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

March 29: A fire at the Littlefield Nursing Home in Largo, Florida kills 33 persons, including singer-songwriter Arthur Fields. (source: Wikipedia)