London. Óscar Gestido is sworn in as President of Uruguay after 15 years of collegiate government. March 4 The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire. Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2. March 5 – Mohammad Mosaddegh (or Mosaddeq; ; ), deposed Iranian prime minister, dies after fourteen years of house arrest. March 6 – Mark Twain Tonight, starring Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, premieres on CBS television in the United States. March 7 – U.S. labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury. March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. March 12 The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in 1998). The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years. March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia. March 14 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide. March 16 – In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup. March 17 – The Grateful Dead debut their first album The Grateful Dead. March 18 Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain. The classic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction opens at Disneyland, California. March 19 – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France. March 21 A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone. Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an