Today in History
19th March
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| 1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX | ||
| 1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor | ||
| 1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas |
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| 1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic" | ||
| 1563 In France, the Peace of Amboise ended the First War of Religion. The Huguenots were granted a limited amount of toleration. | ||
| 1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila | ||
| 1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen | ||
| 1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide | ||
| 1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church | ||
| 1702 James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England | ||
| 1748 English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US | ||
| 1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy) | ||
| 1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement | ||
| 1853 During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital). | ||
| 1861 The Maori insurrection in New Zealand ended when they finally surrendered. | ||
| 1865 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC (U.S.A.) | ||
| 1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die | ||
| 1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes | ||
| 1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional govt, Sask | ||
| 1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time) | ||
| 1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees | ||
| 1920 The U.S. refused to sign the Versailles Treaty and join the League of Nations, for fear of being drawn into a war if another member country was invaded. | ||
| 1925 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop | ||
| 1927 Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin | ||
| 1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi | ||
| 1932 Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge was officially opened. | ||
| 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism | ||
| 1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes | ||
| 1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt | ||
| 1940 French govt of Daladier, falls | ||
| 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Assn of US formed in Chicago | ||
| 1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks | ||
| 1944 In World War II under pressure from Hitler, Hungary allows German troops to cross the border into the country. | ||
| 1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan | ||
| 1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities | ||
| 1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) | ||
| 1945 Hitler orders all German factories destroyed | ||
| 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure | ||
| 1946 Fr Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & R‚union become overseas depts | ||
| 1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR | ||
| 1947 Belgian govt of Spaak, forms | ||
| 1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan | ||
| 1954 Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings v England | ||
| 1958 Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London | ||
| 1958 Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan | ||
| 1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal | ||
| 1964 The Great St. Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic. | ||
| 1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies | ||
| 1965 Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania | ||
| 1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins | ||
| 1967 Fr Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France | ||
| 1969 British troops took over the island of Anguilla following internal political wranglings. | ||
| 1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention | ||
| 1970 The heads of the West and East German governments, Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph, met at Erfurt. It was the first east-west meeting since Germany was divided. | ||
| 1972 A Treaty of friendship and mutual defense was signed between India and Bangladesh. | ||
| 1976 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years | ||
| 1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33) | ||
| 1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb | ||
| 1978 U.N. Security Council voted to send an Interim Force to Lebanon after a massive Israeli air raid on 14 March. | ||
| 1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident | ||
| 1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 | ||
| 1982 An Argentine scrap metal dealer landed on South Georgia and planted an Argentinean flag. The situation escalated and eventually led to the Falklands war. | ||
| 1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River | ||
| 1987 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago | ||
| 1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland | ||
| 1988 Two British soldiers who drove into a Republican area of Belfast during a funeral procession, were seized and killed. | ||
| 1989 Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight | ||
| 1991 In Iraq, Kurdish rebels captured the northern oil town of Kirkuk. | ||
| 1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Neth | ||
| 1994 A powerful bomb blast tore through a crowded metro train in the Azerbaijan capital Baku, killing 12 people and injuring 53. | ||
| 1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway | ||
| 1995 Britain's Queen Elizabeth started an historic state visit to post-apartheid South Africa. | ||
| 1996 Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs. | ||
| 1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage |
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