Occult Mosaic: March (2023)

March 1, 2023, Series Premiere of True Lies

March 1, 2023,

March 1, 2023, Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă unveils an AI-run "honorary advisor" named Ion, which will synthesize submissions by Romanians relating to their "opinions and desires". Ciucă says that this makes Romania the first country in the world to have an AI government advisor. (Politico.eu)

March 3, 2023, Release of Creed 3

March 3, 2023, Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre

March 3, 2023, Release of A Little White Lie

March 3, 2023, Release of Children of The Corn

March 4, 2023,

March 4, 2023, A Norfolk Southern train derails in Clark County, Ohio, United States, with local residents advised to shelter in place. The derailment comes just over one month after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio. However, no hazardous materials are known to be involved in the Clark County derailment. (WDTN-TV)

March 4, 2023, United Nations member states finalize the text of the High Seas Treaty, which aims to declare 30% of the world's oceans marine protected areas by 2030. (BBC News)

March 5, 2023, Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a human stampede at a GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, United States. (AP)

March 7, 2023, Release of Scream 6

March 7, 2023, Release of 65

March 7, 2023, Release of Champions

March 7, 2023, Cyclone Freddy becomes the longest lasting tropical cyclone on record, breaking the record previously held by Hurricane John (1994) which lasted 31 days.(CNN)

March 8, 2023, Series Premiere of School Spirits

March 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (KNTV)

March 10, 2023, American commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank is forcibly shut down by regulators for the U.S. state of California, and its assets controlled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the bank failed to raise enough capital and a subsequent bank run occurred. With assets totalling US$209 billion, the bank's closure is the second-largest bank failure in American history. (CNN)

March 10, 2023, Xi Jinping is re-elected to an unprecedented third term as the President of the People's Republic of China. (The Guardian)

March 10, 2023, Prince Edward is named as the new Duke of Edinburgh by King Charles III. The title was previously held by his father, Prince Philip. (BBC News)

March 11, 2023,

March 12, 2023, At this year's Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once wins seven awards, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Acto, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (Variety)

March 12, 2023, New York-based commercial bank Signature Bank is closed down after a bank run on its deposits, and is taken into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (Reuters)

March 13, 2023, Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4. (The Guardian)

March 14, 2023, Series Premiere of Gotham Knights

March 14, 2023, Meta Platforms announces plans to cut 10,000 more jobs across its workforce, citing "higher interest rates in the United States, global geopolitical instability and increased regulation" as the reason for the layoffs. (BBC News)

March 14, 2023, President Xiomara Castro announces that Honduras will stop recognizing Taiwan and will start recognizing the People's Republic of China as the sole Chinese state. (AP)

March 14, 2023, OpenAI launches GPT-4, the next generation large language model for artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The new model can respond to images, and has the ability to process up to 25,000 words. (BBC News)

March 16, 2023, Poland announces that it will deliver four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, becoming the first NATO member state to send warplanes to Ukraine. (Sky News)

March 16, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron invokes a Constitutional amendment allowing him to circumvent the National Assembly in order to pass a controversial reform bill raising the retirement age in the country from 62 to 64, without the bill going to a vote. (The New York Times)

March 16, 2023, The British government bans the use of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on all government devices, citing security concerns. (Sky News)

March 17, 2023, Release of Shazam: Fury of The Gods

March 17, 2023, Release of Boston Strangler

March 17, 2023, Release of Moving On

March 17, 2023, Release of Supercell

March 17, 2023, Release of The Magicians

March 17, 2023, Series Premiere of Extrapolations

March 17, 2023, Series Premiere of Swarm

March 17, 2023, Series Premiere of Agent Elvis

March 17, 2023, New Zealand bans the use of Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok on all government devices. (The Guardian)

March 17, 2023, No. 1 seed Purdue is defeated 58–63 by No 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson, only the second time a 16 seed has defeated a 1 seed in the tournament's history and the first time since 2018. (USA Today)

March 18, 2023, A 6.8 earthquake strikes the Ecuadorian province of Guayas, damaging buildings, killing at least 18 people, including two in neighboring Peru, and injuring over 400. (The Guardian)

March 19, 2023, Series Premiere of Lucky Hank

March 19, 2023, UBS Group AG, supported by the Swiss government, reaches a deal to merge with Credit Suisse as the latter faces imminent insolvency. (BBC News)

March 20, 2023, The European Union approves a €2 billion plan to supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine. (The Washington Post)

March 20, 2023, Scientists discover ruins of a pearling town near Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates. The town is considered to be the oldest ever found in the country, dating back to the 6th century. (Khaleej Times)

March 20, 2023, Chinese president Xi Jinping visits Russia in his first international trip since being re-elected, meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow. (Reuters)

March 20, 2023, Michael Boatwright, Trayvon Newsome, and Dedrick Williams are found guilty of first-degree murder for the 2018 shooting of rapper XXXTentacion. (The New York Times)

March 21, 2023, The United Kingdom confirms that it will provide Ukraine with depleted uranium armour-piercing shells, alongside its Challenger 2 main battle tanks, saying that there is a "low risk" of radiation contamination. Russian president Vladimir Putin says Russia would be "forced to react" to the British move. (BBC News)

March 21, 2023, President of the United States Joe Biden designates two new national monuments, Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada and Castner Range in Texas. (Reuters via Al Arabiya)

March 21, 2023, Utah adopts a new flag after the governor officializes it. It will come into official use in March of 2024. (The Washington Post)

March 21, 2023, Scientists find the presence of uracil, one of the components of RNA, and vitamin B3 in the samples from asteroid 162173 Ryugu. (CNN)

March 21, 2023, The World Baseball Classic concludes with Japan defeating the United States for the championship. (Japan Times)

March 22, 2023, American engineer Robert Metcalfe wins this year's Turing Award for the invention of Ethernet. (Reuters)

March 23, 2023, Series Premiere of The Night Agent

March 23, 2023, Riots occur across France a day after President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech on pension reform. The entrance to City Hall in Bordeaux is set on fire. (Le Monde)

March 23, 2023, The world's first rocket made by extensive 3D printing, Terran 1, makes its first launch but fails to reach orbit. (NYT)

March 23, 2023, World Athletics bans trans women who have gone through male puberty from competing in female events. (BBC Sport)

March 24, 2023, Series Premiere of John Wick 4

March 24, 2023, Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian)

March 25, 2023, A deadly tornado outbreak hits Mississippi, United States, killing at least 26 people, devastating several rural towns, and prompting Governor Tate Reeves to declare a state of emergency, while President Joe Biden promises federal assistance. (BBC News)

March 25, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by July. The nuclear missiles will be operated by Russian forces. It will be the first time that Russian nuclear weapons have been deployed abroad since 1996. (BBC News)

March 25, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, says that more than 5,000 prisoners have been pardoned following the completion of their contracts in Ukraine. (Reuters)

March 25, 2023, Asteroid 2023 DZ2 makes a close pass between the Earth and the Moon. (BBC)

March 25, 2023, The einstein problem is solved by a single shape that tiles a plane without repeating. (Science News)

March 26, 2023, Series Premiere of Rabbit Hole

March 26, 2023, Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)

March 27, 2023, A train transporting hazardous materials derails near Wyndmere, North Dakota, United States, with 31 out of 70 train cars damaged. (KARE-TV)

March 27, 2023, Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou becomes the first Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, meeting with China's Taiwan Affairs Office deputy chair Chen Yuanfeng in Shanghai. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party criticized this visit as "endorsing" China's position on Taiwan. (Al Jazeera)

March 27, 2023, Honduran President Xiomara Castro orders Taiwanese diplomats to vacate the country's embassy in Tegucigalpa within 30 days, one day after the country established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)

March 27, 2023, The National Assembly of Hungary votes 182–6 to approve Finland's accession to NATO, leaving Turkey as the last remaining NATO member to approve Finland's membership in the military alliance. (France 24)

March 27, 2023, France bans the use of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and other apps on government employees' phones due to concerns relating to insufficient data security measures. (AP)

March 27, 2023, Scientists discover lunar water samples in tiny glass beads from the Moon in studies published by the Nature Geoscience journal. (ABC News)

March 28, 2023, Six people are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The suspect is later killed by responding police officers. (CNN)

March 28, 2023,

March 29, 2023, Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary. (The Straits Times)

March 29, 2023, The U.S. Senate passes a bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) that allowed the past wars in Iraq, with a bipartisan majority of 66–30 votes. (Reuters)

March 29, 2023, In basketball, the Sacramento Kings make the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006, ending their 17-year playoff drought, the longest in NBA history. (USA Today)

March 30, 2023, Series Premiere of Unstable

March 30, 2023, A grand jury in Manhattan, New York City, indicts former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding a hush payment he made while he was a candidate in 2016. (NBC News)

March 30, 2023, Two Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters collide over Fort Campbell in Kentucky, United States, killing all nine people on board. (BBC News)

March 30, 2023, The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)

March 31, 2023, Release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves