10/85Number of high school marching bands that ordered the sheet music for “Barbara Ann” this year: 3,000
5/87Number of the 15 novels on the New York Times March 15 best-seller list with the word “of” in the title: 7
6/87Percentage of delegates to the 1988 Republican convention who will be selected by March 15, 1988: 58
Percentage of delegates to the 1984 Republican convention who were selected by March 15, 1984: 17
5/88Members of Colombia’s Patriotic Union party who have been murdered since it was founded in 1985: 600
Number of the party’s 87 mayoral candidates who were murdered in the six months prior to the March elections: 29
11/89Number of people arrested for smoking in public places in Quezon City, the Philippines, since March: 1,514
3/90Number of the 43 contestants in the annual Rotten Sneaker Contest held in Vermont last March who were women: 1
6/90Tons of weapons Fidel Castro brought with him to Brazil’s presidential inauguration ceremonies in March: 10
7/90Number of votes received by the Beer Drinkers Union in the East German elections held last March: 2,534
Number of votes received by the Unification Now party: 2,396
7/90Number of times George Bush telephoned Gloria Estefan during her stay in the hospital in March: 3
9/90Number of snails that animal-rights activists liberated from a snail farm in England last March: 153,000
10/91Number of tabs of LSD confiscated at a series of Grateful Dead concerts in Landover, Maryland, in March: 36,442
11/91Estimated number of “Schwarzkopf filets” served since March at Gallagher’s, the Manhattan steakhouse: 15,000
12/91Acres of land on the West Bank seized by the Israeli government since the peace process began last March: 46,000
12/91Percentage change, since March, in the Pentagon’s estimate of U.S. deaths in the Gulf War due to friendly fire: +218
6/91Value of the jewelry Madonna wore to the Academy Awards last March: $20,000,000
7/91Job and business inquiries made in March to the Commerce Department’s Persian Gulf Reconstruction Center: 434,000
8/91Number of times Nixon stopped to autograph food-ration cards during his trip to the Soviet Union last March: 1
1/92Number of the 6,100 residents of Kuwait detained by the government since last March who are still being held: 2,800
6/92Number of days a Hamilton, Ohio, high school girl was suspended in March for accepting two Tylenol from a classmate: 5
9/93Daily wage the Israeli government pays Palestinians banned from working in Israel to sweep the West Bank: $9
Number of brooms the government has sent to the Occupied Territories since the ban took effect in March: 80,000
5/94Ratio of positive to negative calls viewers made to ABC last March after the “lesbian kiss” episode of Roseanne: 3:1
2/95Sales of Tupperware through TuppNet since it was introduced on the Internet last March: $1,300
3/95Number of people who attended the return of the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio, on Buzzard’s Sunday last March: 5,000
6/95Points by which Bill Clinton’s approval rating in March 1995 exceeded Ronald Reagan’s in March 1983: 5
Points by which it fell short of George Bush’s approval rating in March 1991: 41
6/95Weight, in pounds, of a “Big Boy” statue stolen from a Toledo outlet of the Big Boy chain last March: 300
Number of days later that its parts were found strewn across the city accompanied by notes reading “Big Boy is dead!”: 2
8/95Estimated number of killings in True Lies, a film Bob Dole cited in March as among those “most friendly to the family”: 94
Amount of the $21,000 in contributions Bob Dole has received from Time Warner since 1987 that he plans to return: 0
Minutes of airtime C-SPAN devoted in June to a National Press Club discussion of Dole by Siskel and Ebert: 64
7/96Farm subsidies received since 1985 by the Montana Freeman whose ranch became the group’s stronghold last March: $676,082
7/96Fine levied on a Swedish couple in March for naming a son Brfxxxcccxxmnnpcccclllmmnprxxvvclmnckssqlbb11116: $746
8/96Copies of Muammar Qaddafi’s first short-story collection sold in Egypt since its publication last March: 200,000
8/96Days in jail to which a Pennsylvania man was sentenced last March for repeatedly oinking at his ex-wife: 30
6/97Quarts of Starbucks Java Chip ice cream found in the freezer of the Heaven’s Gate compound last March 27: 7
6/98Number of Congress members who attended a Capitol Hill hearing last March on the genocide of Muslims in Bosnia: 4
6/98Number of people besides Al Gore who called the Washington Post last March to point out an “upside-down” Earth photo: 0
7/98Number of days last March that a Georgia teen was suspended after wearing a Pepsi shirt on his school’s “Coke Day”: 1
11/99Number of Washington, D.C., police assigned to a neo-Nazi American Nationalist Party march last August: 1,426
2/99Amount a fourth-grade Denver class has raised since last March to buy and free Sudanese slaves: $35,000
6/99Hours before NATO began bombing Kosovo in March that NPR aired its last e-mail from a 16-year-old Albanian girl there: 6
6/99Number of years after the Soviet national anthem was retired that Russia’s Duma voted last March to reinstate its tune: 7
6/99Number of spare parts that NASA retrieved from an Alabama museum last March to use on a space shuttle: 2
8/99Age at death last March of the sturgeon Nikita, Khrushchev’s gift to Norway, after an accidental immersion in salt water: 38
9/99Pages of the British royal family’s medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70
12/00Percentage of the votes cast in Chechnya last March that went to Putin, according to the Russian government: 51
3/00Ratio of major party presidential primaries to be held before April this year to those held before April in 1984: 3:1
5/00Percentage increase in NATO troops required to seal Kosovo ‘s border, according to a Pentagon official last March: 150
6/01Number of PBS stations that aired a program called “Magnificent Lovemaking” during March fund-raising: 88
10/02Number of bookies arrested in India in March on charges they took bets on Hindu-Muslim riots: 101
6/02Amount of missing lunch money for which a Kansas City teacher strip-searched 23 third-graders in March: $5
7/02Number of references to Israeli “retaliation” on U.S. network nightly newscasts between September 2000 and March 2002: 118
Number of references to Palestinian “retaliation”: 14
7/02Number of hours Israeli soldiers in Ramallah broadcast pornography on seven Palestinian television stations in March: 48
7/02Number of Florida State University students arrested in March for protesting while not in a designated “free-speech area”: 12
8/02Years that a Nigerian woman appealing a sentence of death by stoning in March will be allowed to live to wean her baby: 1.5
8/02Years before the death of Britain’s Queen Mother in March that the Times of London first wrote her obituary: 64
5/03Percentage of Americans who believed in early March that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 attacks: 45
Weeks before this poll was taken that President Bush said that he “can’t make [the] claim” of such a link: 5
5/03Ratio of the price of a barrel of oil in March to the price of a body bag from the U.S. military’s supplier: 1:1
6/03Amount of new U.S. military aid for Colombia inserted into the Iraq war bill in March: $105,000,000
6/03Days that AT&T ceased its TV advertising last March “out of respect for the U.S. military operation in Iraq”: 3
6/03Number of mine-detecting monkeys erroneously reported to have been given to the United States by Morocco in March: 2,000
7/03Percentage by which a British flag maker’s sales of U.S. flags in March exceeded those a year earlier: 25
8/03Change since March 2001 in the number of working-age Americans who are neither working nor looking for work: +3,600,000
9/03Percentage of Basra’s liquor stores that have closed since March: 100
9/03Number of Canadian prison inmates who overdosed in March on fellow prisoners’ methadone-laced vomit: 2
Number of inmates charged with drug trafficking for providing the vomit: 3
2/04Estimated percentage of the 2.9 million U.S. jobs lost since March 2001 that have not reappeared abroad: 83
5/04Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq made by the Bush Administration’s top officials since March 2002: 237
Percentage of these that contradicted, made selective use of, or mischaracterized existing government intelligence: 100
6/04Average price per gallon Americans would have paid for gasoline in March if U.S. gas taxes were as high as Europe’s: $2.31
6/04Estimated revenue lost by an Oregon county since it suspended granting heterosexuals marriage licenses last March: $2,000
6/04Chances that a sixth-grader at one Oklahoma City school was suspended for being disruptive during lunch last March 24: 4 in 5
9/04Minimum number of Congress members Sun Myung Moon claims attended his March coronation as the “King of Peace”: 20
9/04Number of HealthSouth executives charged with conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, or lying since March 2003: 20
Number who have pled guilty: 17
11/05Number of journalists killed in Vietnam War during twenty years of war there: 63
2/05Percentage change since March 2002 in total U.S. corporate profits, as valued in dollars: +39
Percentage change as valued in euros: -8
6/05Rank, on the Turkish bestseller list in March, of a thriller depicting a U.S. invasion of Turkey: 1
Rank of Mein Kampf: 2
6/05Number of lines that Italy’s largest cellular operator has set aside for government eavesdropping: 5,000
7/05Number of Saudi men who were imprisoned and flogged for “ behaving like women ” at a party in March: 100
2/06Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in Iraq at some point since March 2003: 48,526
5/06Percentage of the 156 provisions of 2001’s USA Patriot Act that were permanent in the original law: 88
Years by which the other two were extended: 4
5/06Chances that an American believes that the U.S. will suffer a “major terrorist attack” by next March: 2 in 3
5/06Rank of “ Christian ” among one-word descriptions of George W. Bush offered by Americans in February 2005: 15
6/06Number of CIA employees that the Chicago Tribune was able to identify in March through online databases: 2,653
11/07Percentage change in U.S. residential-construction employment since March 2006, if illegal immigrants are counted: –15
Percentage change if illegal immigrants are excluded: –4
7/07Donation Arnold Schwarzenegger was given by Donald Trump after appearing on The Apprentice in March: $10,000
6/08Percentage of John McCain supporters in March 2000 who said they would not vote for George W. Bush: 51