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A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 miners.

March 7 - Fire at Buckingham Palace destroys part of its roof.

March 9 - Women in Germany demand the right to participate in university entrance exams.

March 14 - Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of heredity.

March 15 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

March 16 - The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos reside. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

March 24 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

March 25 - The War of the Golden Stool erupts in the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa between the Ashanti and British colonial forces.

March 27

* Arrival of a Russian fleet in Korea causes concern to Japanese government.

March 28 - Over 1,000 tonnes of filth are removed from demolished Sydney, Australia buildings in areas affected by the bubonic plague outbreak.