Interest bearing debt in June was also up over March the first rise in three quarters.
Wholesale prices rose by 0.2% in the year to March, the first year-on-year gain since 2000.
The holding of local elections in the area in March for the first time in 14 years was a fillip for the government's self-confidence.
The 53-year-old Hadfield launched aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in December and in March became the first Canadian to lead a spaceship as commander of the International Space Station.
The wholesale-price index, the country's main inflation gauge, fell below 6% in March for the first time in 40 months.
The company checked nearly 4 million tickets sold at online and traditional travel agencies in February, March and the first part of April for travel between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The March figure is the first gain after three consecutive months of decline since December.
The largest transaction in Safeway options today was the one-by-two ratio put spread initiated in the March expiry in the first half of the trading session.
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Less than two weeks later, in mid-March, the first shipments of the new devices began arriving.
Indians elected a nationalist government in March for the first time in five decades.
Then, in March, the first evidence of cases among livestock bred and raised in Scotland was confirmed when eight cows on the Barony Campus of Scotland's Rural College in Dumfries and Galloway tested positive for SBV antibodies.
In the year through March, for the first time ever the value of life insurance policies fell.
In the year ended March 2010 for the first time the profits earned by the 10 daily goods producers exceeded those of the luxury goods producers.
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Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note to clients that the March decline might be the first sign that companies are worried about federal spending cuts that took effect on March 1.
Verizon has accounted for 8.7% of iPhone sales (March 2012 quarter) to a high of 11.2% in the March 2011 quarter, the first quarter that Verizon sold the iPhone.
During the meeting on 16 March 2010, the First Minister Carwyn Jones was asked about progress made in implementing the One Wales Agreement.
The debate on 13 March 2012 was the first stage of the lengthy budgetary process, that sees negotiations between the Commission, Council and Parliament.
The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
In addition, the three-month period of January, February and March was the warmest first quarter ever recorded in the Lower 48 states.
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"The eight-week moving average of claims in early March 2001, the first month of the recession according to the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research), was just 362, 000, " he said.
Ms Wilmshurst, now a fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, resigned in March 2003 before the first attacks on Baghdad.
The Dubai store, scheduled to open at the end of March, will be the first outside Oman.
Hence the importance of the census held in March in Pakistan, the first for 17 years.
The sector was first into the downturn in the first half of last year and the first out since March 2012.
The bull market off the March 2009 lows ended in the first week of August 2011 when the up trend off those lows broke.
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On 12 March 1994, the first 32 women were ordained as Church of England priests.
The NABC was also responsible for starting March Madness, running the first ever national college basketball tournament in 1939.
Around February 2008, we started to to see price increases, and by March there were the first signs of demand destruction.
In March, for the first time, Ranbaxy had a greater share of the atorvastatin market than Pfizer, according to Fierce Pharma.
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