March 1981

Thursday 05:

Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.

Friday 06:

After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

Thursday 19:

Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Sunday 29:

First running of the London Marathon

Monday 30:

President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.