March 19 is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL LET'S LAUGH DAY
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it, "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
NATIONAL LET'S LAUGH DAY
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it, "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is activated.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. The conflagration began in the third floor textile printing plant of an edifice in which the workrooms of several businesses were located.
1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
1965 – The wreck of the confederate blockade-runner, SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 – Texas Western, now the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), becomes the first college basketball team to win the the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. ― From Daily Mail.com
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the British Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the British Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. (Photos from Swift X-Ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right)).
2011 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
BORN TODAY
1641 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731)
1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (d. 1929)
1860 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1906 – Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1933 – Philip Roth, American author, Portnoy's Complaint
2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
BORN TODAY
1641 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731)
1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (d. 1929)
1860 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1906 – Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1933 – Philip Roth, American author, Portnoy's Complaint
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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