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Information about March 19


March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap


years). There are 287 days remaining.


Events


   * 1687 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him


     while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.


   * 1831 - City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in


     United States history ($245,000 taken).


   * 1861 - Maori War ends in New Zealand


   * 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end


     of the battle on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from


     Greenville, North Carolina.


   * 1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized


     as a planet.


   * 1916 - First United States air combat mission in history as eight


     American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa


   * 1918 - The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves


     daylight saving time.


   * 1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for


     the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919).


   * 1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens


   * 1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is establish in Chicago,


     Illinois.


   * 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft


     carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.


   * 1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all


     industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities


     and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.


   * 1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and RŽunion become


     overseas dŽpartements of France


   * 1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison


     Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.


   * 1972 - India and Bangladesh sing a friendship treaty.


   * 1981 - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the


     Space Shuttle Columbia.


   * 1982 - Falklands War: Argentines lands on South Georgia Island,


     precipitating war.


   * 1987 - Following a scandal involving Jessica Hahn, televangelist Jim


     Bakker resigns from the PTL.


   * 2002 - US Attack on Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on


     March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied


     troop fatalities.


Births


   * 1813 - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (+ 1873)


   * 1848 - Wyatt Earp, policeman, gunfighter (+ 1929)


   * 1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier (+ 1930)


   * 1864 - Charles Russell, artist (+ 1926)


   * 1873 - Max Reger, composer (+1916)


   * 1883 - Joseph Stilwell, American soldier (+ 1946)


   * 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (+ 1969)


   * 1891 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1974)


   * 1894 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (+ 1978)


   * 1894 - Moms Mabley, comedienne (+ 1975)


   * 1900 - FrŽdŽric Joliot, physicist and winner of 1935 Nobel Prize in


     chemistry (+ 1958)


   * 1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (+ 1981)


   * 1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (+ 1962)


   * 1909 - Louis Hayward, actor (+ 1985)


   * 1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football star, winner of the first


     Heisman Trophy (+ 2002)


   * 1916 - Irving Wallace, novelist (+ 1990)


   * 1928 - Hans Kźng, theologian


   * 1928 - Patrick McGoohan, actor


   * 1930 - Ornette Coleman, musician


   * 1933 - Philip Roth, author


   * 1936 - Ursula Andress, actress


   * 1939 - Joe Kapp, American football star


   * 1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin


   * 1947 - Glenn Close, actress


   * 1955 - Bruce Willis, actor


Deaths


   * 1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland


   * 1945 - Friedrich Fromm, Nazi official


   * 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author


   * 1982 - Randy Rhoads, guitarist


   * 1987 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel


     Prize in Physics


   * 1997 - Willem de Kooning, artist


Holidays and observances


   * Roman Catholic - St. Joseph's Day, spouse of Mary, mother of Jesus.


   * Church of England - St. Joseph of Nazareth, spouse of Mary.


   * Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain


   * The first day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.

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