March 19

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March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). There are 287 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1279 - Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1687 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
1831 - The City Bank of New York is 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 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 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 R�union become overseas d�partements 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.
1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A cease fire takes effect.
1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
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.
1987 - Following a scandal involving Jessica Hahn, televangelist Jim Bakker resigns from the PTL.
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.
2003 - The invasion of Iraq begins (with the time difference, it actually begins on March 20 at 0100 UTC)
2004 - ��nekoski bus disaster - A long-distance lorry and a bus crashed head-on in ��nekoski, Finland. 24 people were killed and 13 injured.
2004 - The Swedish DC-3, shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s, is finally rescued after years of recovery work. The remains of the crew were left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - An attempt on the life of Taiwanese president Chen Shui-ban takes place just days before the country's elections take place. See 3-19 Shooting Incident.