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What Happened on March 19th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
2016	An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
2013	A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
2011	Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2008	GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2004	Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
2004	March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2002	Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2001	German trade union ver.di is formed.
1998	An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
1990	The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
1989	The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
1982	Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1979	The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1969	The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1965	The wreck of the 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.
1964	Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
1962	The Algerian War of Independence ends.
1958	The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1946	French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1945	World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
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.
1944	World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
1943	Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1932	The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1931	Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
1921	Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1920	The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1918	The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1900	The British archeologist Sir Arthur John Evans begins excavating Knossos Palace, the center of Cretan civilization.
1895	Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1885	Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1865	American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1863	The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1861	The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1853	The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1831	First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street.
1824	American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
1812	The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1808	Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.
1687	Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
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".
1563	The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1452	Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V
1284	The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1279	A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
1277	The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.

Famous People Born on March 19

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Year	Name
1885	Attik, Greek composer (d. 1944)
1872	Anna Held, Polish singer (d. 1918)
1809	Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (d. 1891)
1900	Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (d. 1988)
1883	Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946)
1434	Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1443)
1952	Harvey Weinstein, American director and producer
1883	Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1962	Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 2003)
1641	Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731)

Famous People Deaths On March 19

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 19. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1717	John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish soldier (b. 1636)
1649	Gerhard Johann Vossius, German scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1950	Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
1914	Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
1238	Henry the Bearded, Polish duke and son of Bolesław I the Tall (b. 1163)
2004	Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
2016	Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (b. 1959)
1990	Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
2021	Glynn Lunney, American engineer (b. 1936)
1533	John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English baron and statesman (b. 1467)