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1.3 March events

• March 1 - Thai province of Yasothon created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province
• March 1 – British 14-year-old schoolboy Timothy Davey is sentenced in Turkey for "conspiring to sell cannabis"
• March 1 - Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
• March 2 - Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
• March 2 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa becomes the president of Central African Republic
• March 3 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia
• March 4 – Libya and Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty
• March 5 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves the Greek Communist Party
• March 8 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
• March 13 - The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years
• March 13 - Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes "autobiography"
• March 19 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
• March 24 - In a bid for peace, Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland.
• March 26 – 19 climbers of Mount Fuji die in an avalanche
• March 30 - Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

1.4 April events

• April 7 – US Mafioso Joe Gallo shot in Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy
• April 10 - USA and Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement to ban biological warfare
• April 10 - A 7.0 Richter scale earthquake kills 1/5 of the population of Iranian province of Fars
• April 16 - Apollo 16 launched.
• April 18 - Roland Corporation founded in Osaka.
• April 22 - Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax have rowed across the Pacific
• April 27 - Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
• April 29 - The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, thirteen Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and marijuana use.

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