February 19 – Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport: Egyptian Special Forces attempt to rescue several hostages in Larnaca, Cyprus; 20 Egyptian commandos are injured or killed. February 25 – The first Legislative Assembly election is held in Arunachal Pradesh, India. February 27 – The first global positioning satellite, the Rockwell International-built Navstar 1, is launched by the United States. March March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. March 2 – Soyuz 28 (Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimír Remek) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the USA or USSR (Czechoslovakian Vladimír Remek). March 3 Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers, against Somalian troops in the Ogaden. Rhodesia attacks Zambia. The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being. March 8 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. March 10 – Soyuz 28 lands. March 11 – Coastal Road massacre: Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis. March 14 – Operation Litani: Israeli forces invade Lebanon. March 15 – Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. March 16 – Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed. March 17 – An oil tanker, Amoco Cadiz, runs aground on the coast of Brittany. March 18 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging, for ordering the assassination of a political opponent. California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans. March 22 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies, after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which were scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening date to May 20. March 28 San Francisco's City Council signs the United States's most comprehensive gay rights bill. Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision, in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial