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March, 20

  • 2000 Madonna issues a statement to announce that she is three months pregnant with her second child. The father is U.K. film director Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels”), who is 10 years Madonna’s junior.
  • 2000 During a visit to “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee,” Lonestar drummer Keech Rainwater demonstrates some hidden talents when he does several impersonations, including Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, and Regis Philbin.
  • 1999 Radiohead’s behind the scenes film, “Meeting People Is Easy,” premieres at the South By Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
  • 1999 A set of postage stamps commemorating what would have been the 30th wedding anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono is issued in Gibraltar.
  • 1991 Michael Jackson announces a long-term agreement with Sony Music and Columbia Pictures that could be worth $1 billion. Jackson will have his own record label and an entertainment complex to produce records, music videos and theatrical films.
  • 1991 Conor Clapton, the 4-year-old son of rock guitarist Eric Clapton, dies when he falls out the window of a 53rd-floor apartment in New York. The tragedy was the second for Clapton in less than a year. His agent, tour manager and bodyguard died the previous summer in the same plane crash that killed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
  • 1990 Gloria Estefan of Miami Sound Machine fractures a vertebra when a tractor slams into her tour bus near Scranton, Pa.
  • 1984 Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats marries actress Britt Ekland.
  • 1977 The final live T. Rex concert is held in Portsmouth, England.
  • 1972 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “A Horse with No Name,” America.
  • 1969 John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
  • 1965 The first Motown tour of the United Kingdom arrives with Martha & the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes and the Temptations.