March 1, 2020, Series Premiere of Dispatches from Elsewhere
March 2, 2020, MSNBC political anchor Chris Matthews resigns over criticism of making sexist comments and comparing Bernie Sanders' campaign to the Nazi invasion of France. (The New York Times)
March 2, 2020, Series Premiere of Breeders
March 3, 2020, Socio-economic impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: In an emergency move, its first since 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve cuts the federal funds rate by 0.5%, to a range between 1 and 1.25%. (Yahoo Finance)
-U.S. stocks extend their drop in response to the cuts. (The Wall Street Journal)
March 3, 2020, Voters in 14 U.S. states and American Samoa go to the polls in this year's Super Tuesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden is the night's big winner with victories in ten states, while Senator Bernie Sanders wins four and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wins American Samoa. (CNN)
March 3, 2020, Australian news agency Australian Associated Press (AAP) announces it will be closing down at the end of June, after 85 years of operation. (AP)
March 3, 2020, Three tornadoes, two at least EF 3 in strength, rip through downtown Nashville and surrounding towns, killing 25 people. (WKRN)
March 3, 2020, Iran says it will release 54,000 prisoners in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded jails. Only inmates who test negative for the virus will be allowed to leave prison and those sentenced to longer than five years will not be freed. (BBC)
March 3, 2020, A Twitter human resources official advises that Twitter employees work at home to prevent exposure to Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. He adds that telecommuting will be mandatory for employees based in the Twitter offices in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. (Sputnik)
March 4, 2020, Series Premiere of Dave
March 4, 2020, The National Weather Service reports 11 tornadoes touched down resulting in 25 confirmed deaths. Eighteen people remain unaccounted for. (CNN)
March 4, 2020, Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia erupts, forcing the airport in Surakarta to close. (BBC)
March 4, 2020, Italy says all schools and universities will close from March 5 through March 15 to stop the spread of the virus, as the country confirms a total of 3,090 cases and 107 virus-related deaths. (CNBC) (The Guardian)
March 4, 2020, The first in-person use of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool is conducted, intended to reverse a genetic mutation causing Leber congenital amaurosis, a form of inherited blindness.(The Guardian)
March 4, 2020, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans the use of electroshock devices for aversive conditioning on patients with mental disorders. The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts, the last U.S. institution that still uses electroshock devices to punish patients, say they will challenge the federal ban in court. (AP)
March 5, 2020,
March 5, 2020, Egypt reopens the Pyramid of Djoser after a 14-year restoration. The pyramid is deemed the oldest stone structure of its size in the world. (ABC News)
March 5, 2020, The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops again almost 1,000 points over coronavirus fears. (Fox Business)
March 6, 2020, Release of Onward
March 6, 2020, Release of The Way Back
March 6, 2020, Release of Spenser Confidential
March 6, 2020, Release of The Banker
March 6, 2020, Release of First Cow
March 6, 2020, Release of Lil Uzi Vert album Eternal Atake
March 6, 2020, SpaceX successfully launches a Dragon spacecraft in orbit to resupply the International Space Station. This marks the last launch of a Dragon spacecraft, soon to be replaced by Dragon 2, and the 50th successful recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage booster. (Space.com)
March 7, 2020, A hotel being used for quarantining those with coronavirus collapses in Quanzhou, Fujian, China. Ten people were killed and twenty-three are trapped. Thirty-eight have been rescued alive. (CNN)
March 8, 2020, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extends the quarantine lockdown, to cover all the region of Lombardy and 14 other northern provinces, affecting over a quarter of the national population. (BBC)
March 9, 2020, Black Monday, 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: Oil prices plummet after Saudi Arabia cut its official selling prices over the weekend. (CNN)
-Before markets open, the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures posted a 1,300-point drop due to the coronavirus and a fall in the price of oil. The drop would be the most points the Dow has dropped in a single day. (NBC News)
-The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 1,800 points on opening, 500 points lower than pre-market futures trading. (MSNBC)
March 9, 2020, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extends the lockdown from Northern Italy to the whole country. (CNN)
March 9, 2020, The 2020 BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells) is canceled due to coronavirus fears. This is one of the first major sporting events in the United States to be canceled over the coronavirus. (Bleacher Report)
March 9, 2020, The Grand Princess cruise ship, with at least 21 people aboard who've tested positive for COVID-19, has docked at the Port of Oakland, California, to continue to the next step in the quarantining measures process. The ship was carrying more than 2,000 passengers, as well as 1,100 crew members. The Grand Princess had been idling about 10 miles (16 km) offshore since Thursday (March 5). Disembarking American passengers are being put under mandatory 14-day quarantine at military bases in California, Texas or Georgia. Foreign passengers are being sent to their home countries for the completion of the quarantine. (Fox News)
March 9, 2020, The Grand Princess cruise ship, with at least 21 people aboard who've tested positive for COVID-19, has docked at the Port of Oakland, California, to continue to the next step in the quarantining measures process. The ship was carrying more than 2,000 passengers, as well as 1,100 crew members. The Grand Princess had been idling about 10 miles (16 km) offshore since Thursday (March 5). Disembarking American passengers are being put under mandatory 14-day quarantine at military bases in California, Texas or Georgia. Foreign passengers are being sent to their home countries for the completion of the quarantine. (Fox News)
March 9, 2020, Ireland cancels all the Saint Patrick's Day parades. (BBC)
March 9, 2020, The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirms a 2016 ruling that Led Zeppelin's 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven" was not unlawfully copied from Spirit's instrumental "Taurus", overturning the so-called inverse ratio rule test. (UPI)
March 10, 2020,
March 10, 2020,
March 10, 2020, The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, is postponed for the first time ever. The festival has been moved from April 2020 to October 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Los Angeles Times)
March 10, 2020, After a 2,000-point drop on Monday, the DJIA futures gain 1,100 points before the NYSE opening bell. (CNN)
March 10, 2020, Italy enters the first day of the nationwide lockdown as the number of infected reaches 10,149. (BBC)
March 10, 2020, Voters in six U.S. states cast their ballots in the primary elections. Former Vice President Joe Biden wins the Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho primaries and is ahead in Washington (which has not finished tallying votes), while U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wins North Dakota. (The New York Times)
March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization officially declares the outbreak as a pandemic. (CBC)
March 11, 2020, President Donald Trump gives a prime-time statement about the coronavirus during which he announces a 30-day ban on travel from European countries with the exception of the United Kingdom. (ABC News)
March 11, 2020, The NBA has announced that its 2019–20 season is on hiatus "until further notice" after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested a presumptive positive.(ESPN)
March 11, 2020, American film producer Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for two felony sex crimes. (The Hollywood Reporter)
March 11, 2020, The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 1,400 points and enters a bear market. (Fox News)
March 11, 2020, The world's largest annual video game industry event E3 2020 is officially cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus. The highly anticipated event was scheduled to take place on June 9, ahead of major console launches for Microsoft and Sony. (BBC)
March 11, 2020, Oculudentavis khaungraae, the world's smallest dinosaur, is discovered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Newsweek)
March 11, 2020, Scientists discover WASP-76b, an exotic planet that has a 100% chance of having hot liquid iron. (NBC News)
March 11, 2020, The NCAA announces that all postseason tournaments in its winter season—not only the college basketball tournaments, but also its bowling, fencing, gymnastics, ice hockey, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, track & field, and wrestling championships—will be held without fans in attendance. (The Washington Post)
March 12, 2020, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 10%, the largest one-day percentage drop since Black Monday in 1987. (CNBC)
March 12, 2020,
March 12, 2020, Actor Tom Hanks reports that he and his wife Rita Wilson have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after visiting Australia where he was filming Elvis. (The New York Times)
March 12, 2020, It is announced that all Broadway theatres will go dark until the week of April 13, by order of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The ban also affects several television shows which film with live audiences in New York City. (Playbill)
March 13, 2020, Release of Bloodshot
March 13, 2020, Release of The Hunt
March 13, 2020, Release of I Still Believe
March 13, 2020, Release of Roads Not Taken
March 13, 2020, Release of Lost Transmissions
March 13, 2020, Release of Lost Girls
March 13, 2020,
March 13, 2020, Astronomers discover 139 new "minor planets" in the Solar System that are beyond the orbit of Neptune, which helps boost odds of finding Planet Nine. (NBC News)
March 13, 2020, Mayor Marty Walsh announces that the 124th annual running of the Boston Marathon, originally scheduled for April 20, will take place on Monday, September 14 instead. (New York Times)
March 14, 2020, Apple Inc. is closing all its stores outside China for two weeks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to its CEO Tim Cook. (The Guardian)
March 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump confirms he has been tested for COVID-19, after coming into contact with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Press Secretary last week, who has been diagnosed with the disease. President Trump's results were negative. (USA Today)
March 14, 2020, The Ultimate Fighting Championship events will go as planned despite the coronavirus. (SFGate)
March 15, 2020, In an emergency move, less than two weeks after the previous unscheduled intervention, the Fed drops its benchmark rate a full percentage point. It announces a $700 billion quantitative easing program, sets reserve requirements for thousands of banks to zero and lowers other lending rates. The set of measures appears as its biggest ever in a single day. (CNBC)
March 15, 2020, The first one-on-one debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries takes place between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C., instead of Arizona as originally scheduled and without an audience as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Reuters)
March 15, 2020, The Royal Household of Spain announces that the King has refused the heritage of his father after emeritus King Juan Carlos I had been involved in a tax haven scandal and money-laundering. His public fund is also withdrawn. (La Vanguardia)
March 15, 2020, A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aborts takeoff shortly after igniting its engines. (CBS News)
March 15, 2020, National Football League players vote to ratify a proposed CBA rule that changes the NFL regular season to seventeen games and the playoff format to seven games. (USA Today)
March 16, 2020,
March 16, 2020, Actors Idris Elba and Kristofer Hivju reveal they have both tested positive for COVID-19. (Fox News)
March 16, 2020, An ancient petroglyph has been discovered in Central Iran. (Newsweek)
March 16, 2020, The Dow closes 2,997 points or 12.9% lower - its largest daily points movement. (AP via Mercury News)
March 16, 2020, All K–12 schools are closed in 37 U.S. states as of today, affecting a total of 37.4 million students in 72,000 schools. (Education Week)
March 16, 2020, The governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Washington, and mayors of cities in other states, order the closure of all bars and restaurants and ban gatherings of 50 or more people in their states or cities in response to the pandemic. (CNBC)
March 16, 2020, Russian government has decided to provisionally limit the entry of foreigners into Russia to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The rules will come to force on Wednesday and will last until May 1. Diplomats, those "residing permanently in Russia", along with some other categories e.g. crews of aircraft, international truck drivers and people who attend funerals are exempted. (RT)
March 16, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will close its borders to all foreign travelers due to the pandemic, effective on Wednesday. Exceptions will be made for air crews, diplomats, immediate family members and U.S. citizens. Only four airports will continue to receive international flights: Toronto Pearson, Vancouver, Montréal–Trudeau, and Calgary. Domestic flights and flights from the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, as well as foreign commerce and trade, will not be affected. (Global News)
March 16, 2020, Joe Biden is declared winner of the Washington Democratic primary. (Politico)
March 16, 2020, Major League Baseball announces that the season will be postponed indefinitely, after the recommendations from the CDC to restrict events of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks. (Major League Baseball)
March 16, 2020, WWE announces that this year's edition of its flagship event, WrestleMania, will be moved from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, without a live crowd. (Wrestling Observer)
March 16, 2020, The 2020 NFL draft will go on in April despite the coronavirus, but with new changes. (Boston Herald)
March 17, 2020, Iran temporarily frees 85,000 prisoners, including political ones and British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country. A judiciary spokesman says all of those freed were serving less than five years in prison, while all other prisoners serving heavier sentences remain in jail. (Reuters)
March 17, 2020, The European Union closes its external border for first time in its history. (CNN)
March 17, 2020, Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wins all three states, increasing his delegate count to 1,180, while U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders now has 885. The minimum required to win the nomination is 1,991. (Business Insider)
March 17, 2020, Incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump wins enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination. (PBS)
March 17, 2020, Brooklyn Nets player Kevin Durant and three of his teammates test positive for COVID-19. (CNN)
March 17, 2020, Longtime New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady announces he will not re-sign with the team, and will instead select free agency. (National Football League)
March 18, 2020, An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 hits Salt Lake City, Utah, with several aftershocks reported and tens of thousands of residents left without power. The earthquake is the largest in the state since the 1992 St. George earthquake. (CNN)
March 18, 2020, Series Premiere of Motherland: Fort Salem
March 18, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump suspends all foreclosures and evictions, and invokes the Defense Production Act to address shortages of supplies needed for responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the country. (NPR)
March 18, 2020, President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law to provide economic relief to families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. (ABC News)
March 18, 2020, More than 850 million students are not attending school due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to UNESCO. (Al Arabiya)
March 18, 2020, King Felipe VI of Spain addresses the nation in a special speech for the second time in his reign, and the sixth by a monarch in the democracy’s 40 years. Focusing on the coronavirus pandemic, he gives his appreciation for the work of health personnel and calls for a break in differences, stating that Spaniards can "defeat this crisis" through unification. (El País)
March 18, 2020, SpaceX successfully launches and deploys 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 rocket, making a record fifth launch, misses the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You, crashing in the Atlantic Ocean. (Space)
March 19, 2020, The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Italy overtakes the number in China, as 3,405 are now confirmed dead due to the virus. (BBC News)
March 19, 2020, Actor Daniel Dae Kim tests positive for COVID-19. (CNN)
March 19, 2020, U.S. Senate Republicans unveil a $1 trillion economic stimulus package proposal to aid businesses and the American public during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNN)
March 19, 2020, Sean Payton, the head coach of the New Orleans Saints, says he has tested positive for COVID-19. (New York Post)
March 19, 2020, Despite calls for the cancelation of the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Greece hands the Olympic flame over to Japan in a ceremony without spectators. (Kyodo News Plus)
March 20, 2020, Release of The Weekend album After Hours
March 20, 2020, The parliament of Ghana votes to legalize the medical and industrial use of cannabis. (GhanaWeb)
March 21, 2020, The Grand Ole Opry broadcasts from an empty venue for the first time since 1925. (ABC News)
March 22, 2020, Pope Francis, in a call for a worldwide prayer, announces he will hold a special service to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic. (Reuters)
March 23, 2020, A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hits Zagreb, Croatia. Seventeen people are injured; one is in critical condition. The earthquake is Zagreb's largest since 1880. (RT)
March 22, 2020, Former film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein tests positive for COVID-19. He is put in isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility. (The Daily Beast)
March 23, 2020, Fans attend the Olympic flame despite the coronavirus. (Republic TV)
March 24, 2020, Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's closes all of its restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland citing the safety of its employees and customers amid the coronavirus pandemic. (The Guardian)
March 24, 2020, Bernie Sanders wins the Democrats Abroad primary. (The Hill)
March 24, 2020, The ancestor, Ikaria wariootia, of all animals with a bilateral body plan is discovered as a fossil in rocks of South Australia. (Geology Page)
March 25, 2020, The United States Senate and the Trump administration reaches a $2 trillion stimulus package deal following talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The bill passes, and is expected to go to the United States House of Representatives. (The Washington Post)
March 25, 2020, A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits the Kuril Islands town Severo-Kurilsk in Russia's Far East. (Newsweek)
March 26, 2020,
March 26, 2020,
March 26, 2020,
March 26, 2020, The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. reaches 1,200. The total number of cases in the country is 83,097. The U.S. has surpassed China in number of active cases, making it the country with the most cases in the world. (Worldometer)
March 26, 2020, World leaders convene virtually to coordinate a response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (ABC News)
March 26, 2020, The United States Justice Department announces charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for drug trafficking, offering up to a $15 million award for his arrest. (CBS News)
March 26, 2020, Brenton Tarrant pleads guilty to murdering 51 people and attempting to murder 40 as well as a terrorism charge in relation to two mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March 2019. (BBC)
March 26, 2020, The United States Space Force launches its first satellite into space aboard a Atlas V rocket. (CBS News)
March 26, 2020, The WNBA draft will go as planned on April 17, but will be a virtual event due to the coronavirus. (Reuters)
March 26, 2020, The 2020 Indianapolis 500 will be delayed until August 23, marking the first time in history that the event will not be held in May. (Indianapolis Star)
March 27, 2020, Release of Resistance
March 27, 2020, Release of Uncorked
March 27, 2020, Pope Francis delivers a special Urbi et Orbi blessing in an empty Saint Peter's Square, praying for the end of the coronavirus pandemic and offering a plenary indulgence to repentant sinners before San Marcello al Corso's miraculous crucifix, which was moved from its original church in Rome two days ago. (Vatican News)
March 27, 2020, The House of Representatives passes a $2 trillion stimulus relief bill as an effort to save the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump signs the bill. (CBS News)
March 27, 2020, Mount Merapi erupts in Indonesia, sending ash of 5 kilometers in the air. (Manila Times)
March 27, 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for COVID-19. He will self-isolate at 10 Downing Street. (BBC)
March 27, 2020, The Utah Jazz announces that Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell are cleared of coronavirus after becoming the first National Basketball Association players to test positive on March 11. (CBS News)
March 28, 2020, Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic first started, starts lifting its two-month lockdown by restarting some metro services and reopening borders to returning residents, though outbound traffic is still restricted until April 8. (Reuters)
March 29, 2020, North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches. Both South Korea and Japan condemn the launching. (Reuters)
March 30, 2020, Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopens its stores and shopping centers. (USA Today)
March 30, 2020, The Singer Laren museum says that the Vincent van Gogh painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen was stolen in a raid. (AP News)
March 31, 2020, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake happens 72 km (45 mi) west of Challis, Idaho, United States. It is the strongest earthquake in the state since 1983. (USGS)
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