Historical Events on March 19
Historical Events on March 19
- 1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
- 1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China
- 1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome -last Holy Emperor crowned in Rome
- 1524 Giovanni de Varrazano, a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France, lands around area of Carolinas
- 1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
- 1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
- 1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila
- 1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
- 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
- 1687 Explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men
- 1748 Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize North American colonies
- 1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
- 1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
- 1803 Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar
- 1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
- 1864 Charles Gounod's opera "Mireille" premieres at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, France
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville, Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
- 1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
- 1870 Antônio Carlos Gomes' opera "Il Guarany" premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Kingdom of Italy
- 1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match
- 1907 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
- 1911 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
- 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
- 1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
- 1915 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won't take place because of WWI
- 1917 US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
- 1917 Victor Herbert and Harry Blossom's operetta "Eileen", loosely based on a novel by Herbert's grandfather, premieres at Shubert Theater, New York City
- 1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
- 1918 US adopts Standard Time Act of 1918, 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
- 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
- 1927 Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
- 1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
- 1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
- 1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
- 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney, Australia
- 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
- 1941 Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra record "Green Eyes" and "Maria Elena", with vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, in New York
- 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
- 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
- 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard
- 1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
- 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
- 1946 French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France
- 1946 Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
- 1947 Belgian government of Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms
- 1947 Chinese Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jinan
- 1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- 1950 City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
- 1951 Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" published (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
- 1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
- 1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
- 1965 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders
- 1965 Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
- 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, 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.
- 1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
- 1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
- 1968 Howard University, Washington, D.C., students seize administration building
- 1969 British invade Anguilla
- 1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
- 1969 The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.
- 1970 W German chancellor & E German premier meet
- 1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-80 in 2nd half enroute to a 147-127 victory
- 1972 1st AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 in Normal
- 1972 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
- 1972 LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
- 1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
- 1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
- 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
- 1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
- 1979 US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
- 1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
- 1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
- 1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.
- 1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
- 1984 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
- 1984 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
- 1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
- 1984 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
- 1985 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
- 1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
- 1987 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
- 1988 Two British Army corporals are attacked during a funeral procession, beaten and shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, North Ireland
- 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
- 1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
- 1989 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- 1989 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
- 1989 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
- 1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
- 1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
- 1992 Britain's Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation
- 1993 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
- 1993 Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
- 1993 US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
- 1994 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands
- 1994 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
- 1994 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
- 1995 American Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
- 1995 Arizona begins using new telephone area code 520, outside of Phoenix
- 1995 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
- 1995 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
- 1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
- 1997 Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
- 1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
- 1997 US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 2004 A truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
- 2004 Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
- 2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed
- 2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best-selling hamburger chain
- 2013 16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2013 27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra, India
- 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals
- 2014 Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
- 2014 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
- 2018 Mississippi signs into law the US's strictest abortion laws, no termination after 15 weeks
- 2018 World's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya
- 2019 "Superbloom" of poppies in Walker Canyon, southern California visible from space, after high rainfall
- 2019 American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the 1st woman to win mathematics Abel Prize
- 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
- 2019 Image of Australian rules footballer Tayla Harris attacked by internet trolls and controversially removed before being reinstated
- 2019 Singer Sam Smith comes out as non-binary in interview on Jameela Jamil’s Instagram show
- 2020 Italian death toll from COVID-19 at 3,405 surpasses China's official total (3,245) making it then the worst-affected country in the world
- 2020 Professional football in England is further postponed until 'no earlier than 30 April' due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020 State of California with 910 cases of COVID-19 locks down and orders people to "stay at home"
- 2021 Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years and after more than 50,000 earthquakes
- 2023 UBS, Switzerland's 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]
- 2024 China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite for the far side of the moon to support its Chang’e-6 lunar sample return mission [1]
- 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]
- 2024 Hong Kong parliament passes tough new security law Article 23 focusing on sentences for external interference and insurrection [1]
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