What Happened on March 19th in History
30 historical events on this date
The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an...
The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have...
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.
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the British Army,...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore. The view of the...
Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
Frank Ralph Nitto, known as Frank Nitti, was an Italian-American organized crime figure based in Chicago. The bodyguard of Al Capone, Nitti was in charge of all money flowing through the operation....
World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major...
World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USSÂ Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
A dive bomber is a tactical bomber aircraft that attacks its target by performing fast dives in order to provide greater accuracy for the aerial bomb it drops. Diving directly towards the target...
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.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party,...
French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
French Guiana, also known by its French name Guyane, is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by...
The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
The Monarch Underwear Company fire occurred in Manhattan, New York City at 623 Broadway on March 19, 1958. Twenty-four people were killed in a loft fire, between Houston Street and Bleecker Street...
The Algerian War of Independence ends.
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution, the Franco-Algerian War, or the Algerian War of Independence, was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front...
Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of JoĂŁo Goulart and against communism.
The March of the Family with God for Liberty was the common name for a series of public demonstrations that took place between March 19 and June 8, 1964, in Brazil in response to what was described,...
The wreck of the SSÂ 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.
The Georgiana was a brig-rigged, iron hulled, propeller steamer belonging to the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Reputedly intended to become the "most powerful" cruiser in...
The 385-metre-tall (1,263Â ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
The Emley Moor transmitting station is a telecommunications and broadcasting facility on Emley Moor, 1 mile (1.6Â km) west of the village centre of Emley, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate...
Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial...
The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the EgyptâIsrael peace treaty in 1979.
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to...
The ethnic clashes of TĂąrgu MureÈ begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
The ethnic clashes of TĂąrgu MureÈ refer to incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in TĂąrgu MureÈ and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the...
An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
Ariana Afghan Airlines Co. Ltd., also known simply as Ariana, is the flag carrier and largest airline of Afghanistan. Founded in 1955, Ariana is state owned and the oldest airline in the country....
United States President George W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing the invasion of Iraq.
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the...
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.
The Catalina affair was a military confrontation and Cold War-era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in...
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.
The March 19 shooting incident, also known as the 319 incident, was an assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu while they were campaigning in Tainan, Taiwan...
The Konginkangas bus disaster kills 23 and injures 14 people in ĂĂ€nekoski, Finland.
The Konginkangas bus disaster was a major road traffic crash on 19 March 2004, outside the village of Konginkangas in ĂĂ€nekoski, Central Finland. At 02:08 local time, a bus transporting 38...
GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
GRB 080319B was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by the Swift satellite at 06:12 UTC on March 19, 2008. The burst set a new record for the farthest object that was observable with the naked eye: it...
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.
The Libyan Civil War, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict fought in 2011 in the North African country of Libya between forces loyal to Colonel...
A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
The 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks were a series of coordinated bombings and shootings across the capital Baghdad and several major cities in the north and central parts of the country. At least 98...
Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
Flydubai Flight 981 (FZ981/FDB981) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Rostov-on-Don, Russia. On 19 March 2016, the Boeing 737-800 aircraft operating...
An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
On 19 March 2016, a suicide bombing took place in Istanbul's BeyoÄlu district in front of the district governor's office. The attack occurred at 10:55 (EET) at the intersection of Balo Street with...
The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.
The president of Kazakhstan, officially the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the executive head of state of Kazakhstan and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of...
The Swiss Government brokers a deal for UBS to buy out rival Credit Suisse in an attempt to calm the 2023 banking crisis.
The Federal Council is the federal cabinet of the Swiss Confederation. Its seven members also serve as the collective head of state and government of Switzerland. Since World War II, the Federal...