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1931 – 2025Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025)Died 13 March 2025, aged 93Russian composer whose work fused Russian and Central Asian traditions with the Western classical tradition.
1932 – 2025Athol Fugard (1932-2025)Died 8 March 2025, aged 92South African playwright, actor and director known internationally for his unsparing analyses of society under apartheid.
1941 – 2025Dag Solstad (1941-2025)Died 14 March 2025, aged 83One of the most significant Norwegian writers to emerge in the 1960s, known as a literary provocateur.
1949 – 2025George Foreman (1949-2025)Died 21 March 2025, aged 76American boxer who was twice world heavyweight champion, twenty years apart, and later lent his name to a wildly successful home grill.
1975 – 2025Mia Love (1975-2025)Died 23 March 2025, aged 49American politician from Utah who served in the House of Representatives, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.
2025Lip-Bu Tan becomes CEO — new chapterLip-Bu Tan — former CEO of Cadence Design Systems and a semiconductor industry veteran with deep foundry experience — becomes Intel's CEO in March 2025. Tan's appointment is widely welcomed by the industry: he understands chip design, manufacturing and the foundry business. He faces an extraordinary challenge: restore Intel's manufacturing competitiveness, build a viable foundry business, compete with AMD in PCs and servers, and develop an AI chip strategy — all simultaneously, with limited financial resources and a demoralised workforce.
2025Anora wins five Oscars including best pictureMikey Madison and Sean Baker take the top awardsAt the 97th Academy Awards on 2 March 2025, Anora won five Oscars including best picture, best actress for Mikey Madison and best director for Sean Baker. Adrien Brody won best actor, Zoe Saldana best supporting actress and Kieran Culkin best supporting actor.
2025Blue Ghost makes the first commercial soft landing on the MoonFirefly Aerospace succeeds where others failedFirefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander touched down safely on the Moon on 2 March 2025, the first commercial lunar lander to achieve a soft landing.
2025Death of Carl DeanHer husband Carl Dean died at the age of 82 after 58 years of marriage. Three days later she released If You Hadn't Been There, a tribute song she had written for him. She later said his death left her 'worn down and worn out' and she took time to rebuild herself spiritually, emotionally and physically.
2025A Minecraft MovieTop film of early 2025Directed by Jared Hess, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. A live-action/animated adventure based on the popular video game.
2025A colossal squid is filmed alive for the first timeA juvenile at 600 metres in the South AtlanticOn 9 March 2025 researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute filmed a colossal squid in its natural habitat for the first confirmed time -- a 30-centimetre juvenile at a depth of about 600 metres in the South Atlantic.
2025Becomes first player to score 4,000 career three-pointersCurry reaches 4,000 career three-pointers against the Sacramento Kings — an almost incomprehensible milestone that no other player has come remotely close to.
2025Iditarod 2025Winner: Jessie Holmes — 10 daysJessie Holmes won the 2025 Iditarod in Nome on March 14. Only 22 mushers finished — the fewest since the inaugural 1973 race. Holmes described the race as "magical."
2025Mark Carney becomes prime minister of CanadaA former central banker takes officeMark Carney of the Liberal Party was sworn in as prime minister of Canada on 14 March 2025. He had previously been the first non-British person to head the Bank of England.
2025Kilmar Abrego Garcia is wrongfully deportedA legal battle over removal to El SalvadorThe United States deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on 15 March 2025 despite federal protection against his removal. The wrongful deportation triggered a prolonged legal battle and he was eventually returned to the United States.
2025Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore return after 286 daysA week-long mission that lasted nine monthsAstronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore returned to Earth on 18 March 2025 after 286 days in space. Their planned week-long stay at the International Space Station was extended when the Boeing Starliner suffered mechanical problems.
2025Boeing wins NGAD — the F-47US sixth-generation fighterThe US Air Force picks Boeing to build its Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, designated F-47, to succeed the F-22.
2025Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah becomes Namibia's first woman presidentSworn in on independence dayNetumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as president of Namibia on 21 March 2025, the first woman to hold the office.
2025Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes MyanmarMore than 3,600 killedA magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025, killing more than 3,600 people and injuring thousands more.
2025Myanmar EarthquakeMagnitude 7.7 earthquake devastates central MyanmarA magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay, killing over 3,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake was also felt in Thailand, where a high-rise building in Bangkok collapsed. Relief efforts were hampered by Myanmar's ongoing civil war and the military junta's restrictions on humanitarian access.
202580th birthday & still performingMarch 2025Celebrated his 80th birthday on 30 March 2025, having continued to perform and record into his ninth decade — a testament to a career spanning more than sixty years of blues and rock.