March 19

is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). There are 287 days remaining.

Events

1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1831 - The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.
1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
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 (first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train to a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled, three wounded.
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1931 - The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra played its first concert in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is established in Chicago, Illinois.
1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits 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 Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1953 - Academy Awards are first televised.
1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
1958 - A fire in a loft building in New York, New York kills 24 people.
1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
1962 - Bob Dylan releases his first, self-titled album.
1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
1978 - UN Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 were passed, calling upon Israel immediately to cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory (Operation Litani), and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1981 - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
1982 - Falklands War: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
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 - Äänekoski bus disaster - A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
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 - Taiwanese president Chen Shui-ban is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. See 3-19 Shooting Incident.
2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain

Births

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1534 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil (d. 1597)
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
1734 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
1821 - Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author (d. 1890)
1824 or 1828 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Schofield Haigh, British cricketer (d. 1921)
1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (d. 1929)
1873 - Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1883 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (d. 1946)
1888 - Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)
1891 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (d. 1975)
1894 - Joe Venuti, American musician (d. 1978)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
1904 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)
1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
1909 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1916 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1923 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1927 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor
1930 - Ornette Coleman, American musician
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician
1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany
1939 - Joe Kapp, American football player
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
1962 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel
1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model
1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian Rules Footballer
1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean Major League Baseball player
1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer
1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
Year of birth unknown - Mana, Japanese guitarist (Malice Mizer and Moi dix Mois)

Deaths

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (executed) (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (b. 1332)
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1889)
1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian Rules Footballer
1976 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1979 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947),SDK
1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy) (b. 1956)
1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese Voice Actor (b. 1932)
1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

The first day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.
Mojoday in Discordianism

Liturgical feasts

Roman Catholicism and Church of England - Saint Joseph's Day for Saint Joseph of Nazareth, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stepfather of Jesus; patron saint of Belgium, a good death, carpenters
- hence also (alternative) Father's Day in Spain, Portugal, Belgium
- Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain.
Saint Landoald
Saint Adeltrudis (d.670)

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