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19 Mar 1227
Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
19 Mar 1279
A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China
19 Mar 1452
Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V in Rome
19 Mar 1524
Giovanni de Varrazano a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France lands around area of Carolinas
19 Mar 1540
Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a heretic
19 Mar 1628
Massachusetts Bay Colony granted land by England
19 Mar 1644
200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
19 Mar 1682
Nationally Council accept independence of French church
19 Mar 1687
Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River is murdered by his own men
19 Mar 1702
James IIs daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III [O.S. 8 March]
19 Mar 1748
Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize North American colonies
19 Mar 1775
4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days 3 survive (Italy)
19 Mar 1865
Battle of Bentonville Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
19 Mar 1866
Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool 738 die
19 Mar 1877
Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match
19 Mar 1880
42nd Grand National Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 81 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator
19 Mar 1882
1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
19 Mar 1883
Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes
19 Mar 1799
Joseph Haydns Die Schopfung premieres in Vienna
19 Mar 1803
Friedrich Schillers Die Braut von Messina premieres in Weimar
19 Mar 1808
Charles IV king of Spain abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son Ferdinand VII takes the throne
19 Mar 1812
The first Spanish constitution is enacted one of the earliest constitutions ever promulgated
19 Mar 1831
1st US bank robbery the City Bank in New York robbed of 245000
19 Mar 1859
Opera Faust by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
19 Mar 1863
Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions and medicines then valued over 1000000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
19 Mar 1892
3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)
19 Mar 1895
Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
19 Mar 1906
Ermanno Wolf-Ferraris Quattro Rusteghi premieres in Munich
19 Mar 1907
18.8 cm precipitation at Lewers Ranch Nevada (state record)
19 Mar 1910
Australasian Championships Mens Tennis Adelaide Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4 6-3 6-2
19 Mar 1911
1st International Womens Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria Denmark Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included womens right to vote and to hold public office the right to work to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
19 Mar 1914
Stanley Cup Arena Gardens Toronto ON Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA) 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep final series of the challenge era
19 Mar 1915
Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
19 Mar 1917
US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
19 Mar 1918
US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
19 Mar 1918
S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
19 Mar 1920
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
19 Mar 1921
Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia) two children are killed two mangled and three wounded
19 Mar 1927
Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
19 Mar 1928
Amos & Andy debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
19 Mar 1930
Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
19 Mar 1937
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
19 Mar 1937
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the term supernova and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic rays
19 Mar 1937
96th Grand National With King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in attendance aptly-named Royal Mail ridden by jockey Evan Williams wins at odds of 1006 estimated crowd 300000
19 Mar 1938
Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
19 Mar 1940
Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
19 Mar 1941
Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record Green Eyes & Maria Elena
19 Mar 1942
Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
19 Mar 1943
British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line Tunisia
19 Mar 1943
Frank Nitti the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard
19 Mar 1944
Tippetts oratorium Child of Our Time premieres in London
19 Mar 1945
800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
19 Mar 1945
British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
19 Mar 1946
French Guyana Guadeloupe Martinique & Reunion become overseas departments of France
19 Mar 1946
Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
19 Mar 1947
Belgian government of Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms
19 Mar 1948
Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden NYC
19 Mar 1949
1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy Oak Ridge Tennessee
19 Mar 1950
City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
19 Mar 1954
1st color telecast of a prize fight Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden NYC
19 Mar 1954
1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested in Alamogordo NM
19 Mar 1954
Weekes Worrell & Walcott complete centuries in innings for the West Indies v England
19 Mar 1955
17th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship SF beats La Salle 77-63
19 Mar 1956
Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133 St Louis Hawks-75
19 Mar 1957
Indians reject Bostons offer of 1 million for Herb Score
19 Mar 1958
Gary Sobers completes a century in each innings for WI vs. Pakistan
19 Mar 1959
1st Impressions opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
19 Mar 1960
Redhead closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
19 Mar 1960
22nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Ohio State beats California 75-55
19 Mar 1962
All American opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
19 Mar 1962
Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
19 Mar 1965
Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
19 Mar 1965
Rembrandts Titus sells for then record 7770000 guilders
19 Mar 1965
Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
19 Mar 1965
The wreck of the SS Georgiana valued at over 50000000 said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
19 Mar 1966
Pouss Cafe closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
19 Mar 1966
28th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
19 Mar 1967
French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
19 Mar 1968
Howard University Washington D.C. students seize administration building
19 Mar 1969
Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
19 Mar 1969
The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor United Kingdom collapses due to ice build- up.
19 Mar 1971
Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
19 Mar 1972
1st AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 in Normal
19 Mar 1972
To Live Another Summer closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
19 Mar 1972
LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors 162-99 by then record 63 pts
19 Mar 1973
Dean tells Nixon There is a cancer growing on the Presidency
19 Mar 1975
Dr Jazz opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
19 Mar 1975
Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
19 Mar 1977
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (115.33)
19 Mar 1978
50000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
19 Mar 1978
PGA Tournament Players Championship Sawgrass CC Jack Nicklaus wins his 3rd TPC title 1 stroke ahead of Lou Graham 4th straight start for Nicklaus that ends with a top-2 finish
19 Mar 1979
US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
19 Mar 1981
-21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
19 Mar 1981
2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
19 Mar 1982
Falklands War Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island precipitating war with the U.K.
19 Mar 1984
John J OConnor named 8th archbishop of New York
19 Mar 1984
KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
19 Mar 1984
Mobil oil tanker spills 200000 gallons into Columbia River
19 Mar 1984
MLB Pitcher Denny McLain indicted on charges of racketeering
19 Mar 1985
NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
19 Mar 1985
US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile
19 Mar 1987
Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
19 Mar 1987
American televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid rape accusation by his secretary Jessica Hahn
19 Mar 1987
Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (416.85)
19 Mar 1988
2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
19 Mar 1988
Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (1525.25)
19 Mar 1989
Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
19 Mar 1989
Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
19 Mar 1989
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
19 Mar 1989
Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
19 Mar 1989
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
19 Mar 1989
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
19 Mar 1989
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
19 Mar 1990
1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
19 Mar 1991
KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
19 Mar 1991
Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
19 Mar 1991
Gorbachev says the Soviet Union will cut its oil exports by nearly half
19 Mar 1992
Master Builder opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
19 Mar 1992
Britains Prince Andrew & Sarah Duchess of York announce separation
19 Mar 1993
Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
19 Mar 1993
Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
19 Mar 1993
US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
19 Mar 1994
2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands
19 Mar 1994
Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
19 Mar 1994
Largest omelette (1383sq ft) made with 160000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
19 Mar 1995
Translations opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
19 Mar 1995
Uncle Vanya closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
19 Mar 1995
Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new telephone area code 520
19 Mar 1995
Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
19 Mar 1995
Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
19 Mar 1995
Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
19 Mar 1995
NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
19 Mar 1995
Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (354.08)
19 Mar 1997
Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
19 Mar 1997
Major League Baseball announces 5 year50M deal with Pepsi
19 Mar 1997
US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
19 Mar 1998
Ah Wilderness opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
19 Mar 2001
The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
19 Mar 2002
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
19 Mar 2004
A truck and a bus crash head-on in nekoski Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
19 Mar 2004
A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place pending further investigations.
19 Mar 2004
Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the countrys presidential election on March 20.
19 Mar 2005
Wales beats Scotland 32-20 at Millennium Stadium Cardiff to win Six Nations Rugby Championship becomes first team ever to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
19 Mar 2008
GRB 080319B A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed
19 Mar 2011
Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories
19 Mar 2012
Wendys overtakes Burger King to become the second best-selling hamburger chain
19 Mar 2013
27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra India
19 Mar 2013
16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
19 Mar 2013
NASAs Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals
19 Mar 2014
Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
19 Mar 2014
Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
19 Mar 2016
England beats France 31-21 at Stade de France Paris to claim Six Nations Rugby Championship secure their first Grand Slam since 2003 Owen Farrell with 7 goals Englands 2nd-highest points scorer behind Jonny Wilkinson
19 Mar 1682
Assembly of the French clergy issues a declaration stating among other things that the power of the King is not subject to papal authority
19 Mar 1799
Joseph Haydns Die Schpfung premieres in Vienna
19 Mar 1915
VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games wont take place because of WWI
19 Mar 1932
England beats Scotland 16-3 at Twickenham London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship France expelled alleged professionalism
19 Mar 1938
Scotland beats England 21-16 at Twickenham London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
19 Mar 1950
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her 2nd of 3 Titleholders titles by 8 strokes from amateur Claire Doran
19 Mar 1951
Herman Wouks novel The Caine Mutiny published (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
19 Mar 1966
28th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65 Miners first title in first title game
19 Mar 1977
France beats Ireland 15-6 at Lansdowne Road Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
19 Mar 1983
France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship no tie-break procedure exists before 1993
19 Mar 1988
France edges Wales 10-9 at the National Stadium Cardiff to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with the Welsh with 3-1 records
19 Mar 1989
Wales beats England 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim its 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
19 Mar 1994
England beats Wales 15-8 at Twickenham London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time
19 Mar 2005
Wales beats Ireland 32-20 at Millennium Stadium Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship and become the 1st team to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
19 Mar 1917
Victor Herbert and Harry Blossoms operetta Eileen loosely based on a novel by Herberts grandfather premieres at Shubert Theater New York City
19 Mar 1932
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney Australia
19 Mar 1938
NHL Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans combine to score 8 goals in just under 5 minutes Toronto wins game 8-5
19 Mar 1954
The Three Ws of West Indian cricket each score centuries in one innings Clyde Walcott scores 124 following Everton Weekes (206) and Frank Worrell (167) in 1st innings of drawn 4th Test v England at Port of Spain
19 Mar 1971
Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-80 in 2nd half enroute to a 147-127 victory
19 Mar 1988
Two British Army corporals are attacked during a funeral procession beaten and shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Belfast North Ireland
19 Mar 1989
Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
19 Mar 1918
US adopts Standard Time Act of also known as the Calder Act a federal law implementing standard time and defining five time zones for the United States
19 Mar 1944
British composer Michael Tippetts oratorio A Child of Our Time premieres at the Adelphi Theatre London England
19 Mar 1687
Explorer Ren-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River is murdered by his own men
19 Mar 1864
Charles Gounods opera Mireille premieres at the Thtre Lyrique in Paris France
19 Mar 1870
Antnio Carlos Gomes opera Il Guarany premieres at Teatro La Scala in Milan Italy
19 Mar 1895
Los Angeles Railway is established to provide streetcar service
19 Mar 1918
US adopts Standard Time Act of also known as the Calder Act a federal law implementing standard time (and daylight saving time) and defining five time zones for the United States
19 Mar 1941
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra record Green Eyes and Maria Elena with vocals by Helen OConnell and Bob Eberly in New York City
19 Mar 1944
British composer Michael Tippetts oratorio A Child of Our Time premieres at the Adelphi Theatre in London England
19 Mar 1947
Chinese Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jinan
19 Mar 2018
Mississippi signs into law the USs strictest abortion laws no termination after 15 weeks
19 Mar 2018
Worlds last male northern white rhino 45-year-old Sudan dies in Kenya
19 Mar 2019
Superbloom of poppies in Walker Canyon southern California visible from space after high rainfall
19 Mar 2019
American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the 1st woman to win mathematics Abel Prize
19 Mar 2019
Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks
19 Mar 2019
Image of Australian rules footballer Tayla Harris attacked by internet trolls and controversially removed before being reinstated
19 Mar 2019
Singer Sam Smith comes out as non-binary in interview on Jameela Jamils Instagram show
19 Mar 2020
Italian death toll from COVID-19 at 3405 surpasses Chinas official total (3245) making it then the worst-affected country in the world
19 Mar 2020
Professional football in England is further postponed until no earlier than 30 April due to the COVID-19 pandemic
19 Mar 2020
State of California with 910 cases of COVID-19 locks down and orders people to stay at home
19 Mar 2021
Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years and after more than 50000 earthquakes
19 Mar 2023
UBS Switzerlands largest bank agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse (established 1856) for about 3.2 billion to help ease global financial panic in deal brokered by Swiss government [1]
19 Mar 1452
Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V at St. Peters Basilica in Rome -last Holy Emperor crowned in Rome
19 Mar 1870
Antnio Carlos Gomes opera Il Guarany premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan Kingdom of Italy
19 Mar 1995
American Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
19 Mar 1995
Arizona begins using new telephone area code 520 outside of Phoenix
19 Mar 2024
China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite for the far side of the moon to support its Change-6 lunar sample return mission [1]
19 Mar 2024
Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN for the seventh year in a row with Afghanistan the lowest ranked [1]
19 Mar 2024
Hong Kong parliament passes tough new security law Article 23 focusing on sentences for external interference and insurrection [1]
19 Mar 1227
Cardinal Ugolino di Conti is elected Pope Gregory IX
19 Mar 1740
British Parliament passes the Plantation Act naturalizing foreign Protestants and others residing for seven years or more in any of Britains American colonies
19 Mar 1775
Four people are buried by an avalanche for 37 days in Bergemoletto Italy three survive
19 Mar 1863
Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions and medicines valued at over 1000000. The wreck is discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
19 Mar 1932
Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Sydney Australia
19 Mar 1937
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosions coining the term supernova and hypothesizing that they are the origin of cosmic rays
19 Mar 1957
MLB Cleveland Indians reject Boston Red Sox offer of 1 million for pitcher Herb Score
19 Mar 1965
The wreck of the SS Georgiana valued at over 50000000 and said to be the most powerful Confederate cruiser is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction
19 Mar 1970
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt East Germany for the first time since the division of Germany in 1949
19 Mar 1991
Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road losses
19 Mar 2001
Bank of Japan issues a monetary policy known as quantitative easing which stimulates the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble
19 Mar 2013
3rd World Baseball Classic Dominican Republic wins the international tournament with a 3-0 win over Puerto Rico at AT&T Park in San Francisco California
19 Mar 2021
Vice-president of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan (61) is sworn as president after the death of John Magufuli becoming the countrys first female chief executive
19 Mar 2025
New data on dark energy from the DESI telescope further upends scientific belief that the universe is constantly expanding its results show it has instead weakened over the last 4.5 million years [1]