History of March

During the month of March the following events have happened in our world's history.

March 01, 1753 - St. David's Day
March 01, 1781 - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
March 01, 1790 - 1st US census began
March 01, 1803 - Ohio becomes 17th state
March 01, 1859 - Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
March 01, 1864 - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
March 01, 1864 - Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
March 01, 1867 - Nebraska becomes 37th state
March 01, 1872 - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
March 01, 1879 - Library of Hawaii founded
March 01, 1919 - Korean independence Demonstrations from Japan begin
March 01, 1927 - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
March 01, 1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
March 01, 1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
March 01, 1947 - Intl Monetary Fund began operations
March 01, 1951 - 22nd amendment limits president to 2 terms
March 01, 1961 - Pres Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
March 01, 1966 - Venera 3 becomes 1st manmade object to impact on a planet (Venus)
March 01, 1969 - Mickey Mantle announces retirement
March 01, 1970 - End of coml whale hunting in the US
March 01, 1970 - White govt of Rhodesia declares ind from Britain
March 01, 1982 - Soviet Venus 13 soft lands on Venus
March 02, 1807 - US slave importation forbidden
March 02, 1819 - Ark territory organized
March 02, 1836 - Tx declares independence from Mexico
March 02, 1840 - Heinrich Olbers - discoverer of comets & asteroids - dies
March 02, 1853 - Washington territory organized
March 02, 1861 - Congress creates Dakota & Nevada territories
March 02, 1867 - Congress abolishes peonage in NM
March 02, 1901 - Hawaii's 1st telegraph co opens
March 02, 1917 - Puerto Rico territory created - US citizenship granted
March 02, 1923 - Time mag 1st published
March 02, 1929 - Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
March 02, 1949 - 1st automatic st light (New Milford - Ct)
March 02, 1949 - 1st non-stop - round-the-world airplane flight completed
March 02, 1958 - 1st surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed
March 02, 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 pts in an NBA game
March 02, 1970 - American Airlines 1st flight of Boeing 747
March 02, 1972 - Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
March 02, 1974 - 1st class postage raised to 10› from 8›
March 02, 1976 - Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest
March 02, 1978 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
March 02, 1980 - 3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pitts
March 02, 1982 - 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier
March 03, 1703 - Robert Hooke - scientific genius - dies in London
March 03, 1791 - US Mint established
March 03, 1812 - Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill
March 03, 1817 - Alabama territory organized
March 03, 1820 - Missouri compromise passes
March 03, 1845 - Florida becomes 27th state
March 03, 1849 - Gold Coinage Act passed
March 03, 1849 - Minn Territory organized
March 03, 1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
March 03, 1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
March 03, 1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
March 03, 1875 - Congress authorizes 20› coin lasts only 3 years
March 03, 1878 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
March 03, 1885 - A T & T incorporated
March 03, 1918 - Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - withdraws from WW I
March 03, 1923 - Time mag's 1st issue
March 03, 1931 - Star Spangled Banner officially became US national anthem
March 03, 1943 - US wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan
March 03, 1945 - US & Philippine forces recapturedsCorregidor
March 03, 1956 - Morocco gains independence from France (National Day)
March 03, 1969 - Apollo 9 launched
March 03, 1972 - Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
March 03, 1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 Making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 5-1-0
March 03, 1977 - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
March 03, 1981 - Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season - 4 goals
March 03, 1984 - Isles score 11 goals-Lafontaine's 1st hat trick-Maple Leafs
March 03, 1985 - Moonlighting premiers
March 04, 1675 - John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of GB
March 04, 1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
March 04, 1789 - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect
March 04, 1791 - Vt admitted as 14th state
March 04, 1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
March 04, 1793 - Washington's 2nd inaugration - shortest speech 133 words
March 04, 1801 - 1st pres inaugration in Wash DC (Thomas Jeffersin)
March 04, 1826 - 1st US RR chartered - Granite Railway in Quincy - Mass
March 04, 1841 - Longest inaugration speech - 8443 words - William Henry Harrison
March 04, 1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
March 04, 1863 - Idaho Territory established
March 04, 1894 - Great fire in Shanghai 1 -000 buildings destroyed
March 04, 1902 - American Automobile Association opens
March 04, 1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
March 04, 1933 - FDR inaugurated - says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
March 04, 1934 - Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated
March 04, 1954 - 1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed - JE Wilkins
March 04, 1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent
March 04, 1959 - Pioneer 4 makes 1st US lunar flyby
March 04, 1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
March 04, 1968 - Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
March 04, 1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped - to Los Alamos Laboratories - NM
March 04, 1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
March 04, 1980 - 40th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
March 04, 1982 - 2nd double hat trick in Islander history - Bossy & D Potvin
March 05, 1616 - Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic Forbidden index
March 05, 1770 - Boston Massacre - 5 die
March 05, 1845 - Congress appropriates $30 -000 to ship camels to western US
March 05, 1908 - 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus - Antarctica
March 05, 1927 - US marines land in China to protect American property
March 05, 1933 - FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
March 05, 1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
March 05, 1953 - Josef V Stalin died
March 05, 1956 - King Kong 1st televised
March 05, 1974 - Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
March 05, 1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
March 06, 1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society published
March 06, 1836 - Alamo falls. Remember it!
March 06, 1857 - Dred Scott decision
March 06, 1906 - Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Am Soc of Civil Engineers
March 06, 1930 - Bkln's Clarence Birdseye developes quick freezing food method
March 06, 1957 - Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
March 06, 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
March 06, 1986 - Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10 -000 km of Halley's comet
March 07, 0322 - BC Aristotle died
March 07, 1321 - Thomas Aquinas - philosopher & saint - dies
March 07, 1583 - Thomas Aquinas Day
March 07, 1774 - British close Boston port to commerce
March 07, 1778 - Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast - at Yaquina Bay
March 07, 1848 - In Hawaii - Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
March 07, 1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
March 07, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
March 07, 1911 - US sent 20 -000 troops to Mexican border
March 07, 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
March 07, 1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
March 07, 1933 - Monopoly invented
March 07, 1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles - sends troops to Rhineland
March 07, 1945 - During WW II - US crosses Rhine River
March 07, 1955 - Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
March 07, 1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
March 07, 1962 - US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
March 07, 1965 - March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma - Ala
March 07, 1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
March 07, 1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule - allows 60 senators to limit debate
March 07, 1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
March 07, 1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
March 07, 1981 - Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance
March 07, 1986 - Sen Jacob K Javits - R-NY - dies in Palm Beach - Fla
March 08, 1862 - Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched
March 08, 1917 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time
March 08, 1934 - Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way stars
March 08, 1945 - Intl Women's Day
March 08, 1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use - NYC
March 08, 1950 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - BR Walters
March 08, 1959 - Groucho - Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
March 08, 1963 - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day
March 08, 1965 - 1st US forces arrive in Vietnam
March 08, 1976 - Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling - China)
March 09, 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation -
March 09, 1661 - Cardinal Jules Mazarin - chief minister of France - died
March 09, 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
March 09, 1822 - Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
March 09, 1860 - 1st Japanese-US ambassador
March 09, 1862 - Monitor (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
March 09, 1954 - Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy (See it Now)
March 09, 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
March 09, 1976 - Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent - Blues 4-0
March 09, 1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
March 10, 1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii
March 10, 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent - only US president to do so
March 10, 1876 - 1st telephone call
March 10, 1913 - Harriet Tubman - abolitionist - conductor on Underground RR - dies
March 10, 1933 - Earthquake in Long Beach
March 10, 1948 - 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound -HH Houver - Edwards AFB Ca
March 10, 1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
March 10, 1978 - Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
March 11, 1702 - 1st London daily newspaper
March 11, 1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
March 11, 1847 - John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County - Ind
March 11, 1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery - adopts constitution
March 11, 1865 - Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville - NC
March 11, 1867 - Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts
March 11, 1888 - Blizzard struck NE US - 400 die
March 11, 1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield - Mass)
March 11, 1930 - Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
March 11, 1938 - Germany invades Austria
March 11, 1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
March 11, 1942 - Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia
March 11, 1953 - 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
March 11, 1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
March 11, 1960 - Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
March 11, 1977 - Rings of Uranus are discovered
March 11, 1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko
March 11, 1986 - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
March 12, 1664 - NJ became a British colony
March 12, 1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence - Italy
March 12, 1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
March 12, 1850 - 1st $20 gold piece issued
March 12, 1868 - Congress abolishes manufactures tax
March 12, 1877 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
March 12, 1888 - Great blizzard of '88 kill 400 in NE US
March 12, 1903 - AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
March 12, 1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
March 12, 1925 - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast
March 12, 1925 - Chinese rev leader Sun Yat-Sen died
March 12, 1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
March 12, 1936 - FDR's 1st "Fireside Chat"
March 12, 1938 - Germany invades Austria
March 12, 1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
March 12, 1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
March 12, 1945 - British Empire Day
March 12, 1958 - Commonwealth Day
March 12, 1959 - House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
March 12, 1963 - Bob Dylan cancels Ed Sullivan appearance
March 12, 1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
March 12, 1968 - Mauritius gains ind from Britain (Natl Day)
March 12, 1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London
March 12, 1977 - Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
March 12, 1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33
March 12, 1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
March 12, 1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial - Richmond - VA
March 12, 1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
March 13, 1639 - Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
March 13, 1677 - Mass gains title to Maine for $6 -000
March 13, 1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
March 13, 1852 - Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
March 13, 1868 - Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
March 13, 1877 - Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
March 13, 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
March 13, 1884 - US adopts standard time
March 13, 1901 - Benjamin Harrison - 23rd pres - dies in Indianapolis
March 13, 1906 - American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
March 13, 1925 - Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
March 13, 1928 - 400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
March 13, 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
March 13, 1938 - Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
March 13, 1938 - Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
March 13, 1964 - Kitty Genovese stabbed dead - 40 witness attack in Queens
March 13, 1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth
March 13, 1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
March 13, 1970 - SF city employees start 4 day strike
March 13, 1979 - Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
March 13, 1979 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
March 13, 1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
March 13, 1986 - Soyuz T-15 launched
March 14, 1629 - Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
March 14, 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
March 14, 1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
March 14, 1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
March 14, 1855 - 1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
March 14, 1870 - Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
March 14, 1883 - Karl Marx dies
March 14, 1896 - Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952)
March 14, 1900 - US currency goes on gold standard
March 14, 1903 - 1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL
March 14, 1923 - Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
March 14, 1931 - 1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
March 14, 1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
March 14, 1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF
March 14, 1951 - During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul
March 14, 1964 - Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
March 14, 1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
March 14, 1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
March 14, 1975 - Susan Hayward dies at 56
March 14, 1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
March 14, 1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
March 14, 1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)
March 15, 0044 - Julius C‘sar assassinated in Roman Senate
March 15, 1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
March 15, 1892 - NY State unveals Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine)
March 15, 1913 - Woodrow Wilson holds 1st Pres Press Conference
March 15, 1916 - Gen. Pershing - 15 -000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico - stay 10 mo
March 15, 1917 - Nicholas II - last Russian tsar - abdicates
March 15, 1937 - 1st blood bank established - Chicago - Ill
March 15, 1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens - Raleigh - NC
March 15, 1952 - Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 29 cm at La Reunion - Indian Ocean
March 15, 1956 - My Fair Lady opens (NY)
March 15, 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
March 15, 1968 - US Mint stops buying & selling gold
March 15, 1975 - Wrestler Antonino Rocca dies at 49
March 15, 1978 - Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
March 15, 1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
March 15, 1986 - 1st all-color TV station televising live local programs
March 15, 1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
March 16, 1621 - 1st Indian appears at Plymouth - Mass
March 16, 1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy at West Point - NY
March 16, 1827 - 1st US black newspaper - Freedom's Journal (NYC)
March 16, 1916 - US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
March 16, 1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket 184 feet
March 16, 1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament - violating Versailles Treaty
March 16, 1945 - US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
March 16, 1952 - 1.87m rain fall at Cilaos - La R‚union in 24 hrs (world record)
March 16, 1966 - Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
March 16, 1968 - My-Lai massacre occurs
March 16, 1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
March 16, 1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
March 17, 0461 - St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul
March 17, 1753 - 1st official St. Patrick's Day
March 17, 1776 - British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War
March 17, 1846 - FW Bessel - measurer of distance to 61 Cygni - dies
March 17, 1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
March 17, 1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY
March 17, 1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake"
March 17, 1910 - Camp Fire Girls organize
March 17, 1941 - Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
March 17, 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
March 17, 1958 - Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
March 17, 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
March 17, 1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975)
March 17, 1966 - US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean
March 17, 1969 - Golda Meir became Israeli PM
March 17, 1970 - US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
March 17, 1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
March 17, 1983 - 70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
March 18, 0978 - St. Edward the Martyr - king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies
March 18, 1541 - de Soto becomes 1st European to record flooding of Mississippi River
March 18, 1766 - Britain repeals Stamp Act
March 18, 1850 - American Express founded
March 18, 1859 - Vera Cruz - Mexico besieged by Miramon
March 18, 1881 - Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in MSG
March 18, 1892 - Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
March 18, 1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark-1st ham broadcast
March 18, 1922 - Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
March 18, 1931 - 1st electric razor marketed by Schick
March 18, 1937 - Tx gas explosion kills 400
March 18, 1938 - Mexico took control of foreign-owned oil properties
March 18, 1952 - 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted - Phila
March 18, 1959 - Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
March 18, 1962 - French & Algerian rebels agree to a truce
March 18, 1965 - Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkod-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov
March 18, 1974 - Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo
March 18, 1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US
March 18, 1985 - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
March 18, 1986 - Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
March 19, 1822 - Boston - Mass incorporated
March 19, 1859 - Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
March 19, 1895 - LA Railway established
March 19, 1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for RR
March 19, 1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
March 19, 1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
March 19, 1928 - Amos & Andy debuts on radio
March 19, 1931 - Nevada legalized gambling
March 19, 1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
March 19, 1945 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
March 19, 1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy - Oak Ridge - Tn
March 19, 1951 - Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny published
March 19, 1953 - Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
March 19, 1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested - Alamogordo - NM
March 19, 1974 - Anne Klien dies at 50
March 19, 1976 - Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret
March 19, 1979 - House of Reps begin day-to-day TV broadcasts
March 19, 1981 - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
March 19, 1984 - Kate & Allie premiers
March 19, 1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns
March 20, 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton dies in London at 84
March 20, 1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
March 20, 1815 - Napoleon enters Paris - begins 100 day rule
March 20, 1833 - US & Siam conclude coml treaty
March 20, 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin -' published
March 20, 1886 - 1st AC commercial power plant begins operation
March 20, 1896 - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
March 20, 1899 - Martha Place of Bkln - became 1st woman to die by electrocution
March 20, 1942 - Gen MacArthur vowed - "I shall return"
March 20, 1948 - 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
March 20, 1956 - 156-day strike against Westinghouse ended
March 20, 1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France
March 20, 1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition in NYC
March 20, 1969 - Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
March 20, 1976 - Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
March 20, 1978 - Flyers' Rick MacLeash scored on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
March 20, 1980 - US appeals to Intl Court on hostages in Iran
March 20, 1981 - Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
March 21, 1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
March 21, 1844 - Bah '¡ New Year
March 21, 1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal
March 21, 1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
March 21, 1907 - US invades Honduras
March 21, 1918 - During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive -
March 21, 1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany
March 21, 1946 - UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)
March 21, 1960 - S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
March 21, 1963 - Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed
March 21, 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
March 21, 1965 - US Ranger 9 launched takes 5 -814 pictures before lunar impact
March 21, 1986 - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
March 22, 1621 - Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
March 22, 1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
March 22, 1733 - Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
March 22, 1765 - Britain enacts Stamp Act
March 22, 1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash state
March 22, 1799 - F.W.A. Argelander - cataloguer of 324 -000 stars - dies
March 22, 1820 - Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
March 22, 1882 - Congress outlaws polygamy
March 22, 1894 - Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
March 22, 1903 - NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
March 22, 1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
March 22, 1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
March 22, 1945 - Arab League founded
March 22, 1946 - Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
March 22, 1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes
March 22, 1960 - AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
March 22, 1963 - Beatles release 1st album - Please Please Me
March 22, 1967 - Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
March 22, 1968 - Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
March 22, 1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
March 22, 1972 - Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
March 22, 1975 - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
March 22, 1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
March 22, 1978 - Robert Frost Plaza - at Calif - Drumm & Market - dedicated
March 22, 1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
March 22, 1981 - 1st class postage raised to 18› from 15›
March 22, 1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
March 22, 1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
March 22, 1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
March 22, 1984 - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
March 23, 1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere
March 23, 1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias - died 2 days later
March 23, 1775 - Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death
March 23, 1806 - Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast
March 23, 1840 - 1st photo of moon taken
March 23, 1919 - Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy
March 23, 1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
March 23, 1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
March 23, 1933 - German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
March 23, 1937 - LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
March 23, 1940 - All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland
March 23, 1942 - US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers
March 23, 1944 - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5 -500 m without a parachute & lives
March 23, 1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
March 23, 1956 - Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth
March 23, 1962 - JFK visits SF
March 23, 1965 - Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight
March 23, 1976 - Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect - 35 nations ratify
March 23, 1982 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick - 4 goals
March 23, 1983 - 1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days
March 24, 1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act
March 24, 1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF - 89 days out of NY
March 24, 1878 - British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
March 24, 1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
March 24, 1894 - 37 miners die at Franklin - Wash
March 24, 1934 - FDR grants future independence to Philippines
March 24, 1936 - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 9th period. 176 minute games is hockey's longest
March 24, 1944 - In occupied Rome - Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
March 24, 1955 - 1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
March 24, 1955 - Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
March 24, 1958 - Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
March 24, 1965 - US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
March 24, 1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
March 24, 1976 - Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
March 24, 1980 - Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
March 24, 1981 - Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
March 24, 1986 - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
March 25, 1634 - Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
March 25, 1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan - (Saturn's largest satelite)
March 25, 1753 - Annunciation Day
March 25, 1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
March 25, 1857 - Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
March 25, 1913 - Great Dayton Flood
March 25, 1920 - Greek Independence Day
March 25, 1951 - E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
March 25, 1954 - RCA manufactures 1st COLOR TV set
March 25, 1955 - E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power - USSR
March 25, 1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
March 26, 1668 - Bombay - India transferred to England
March 26, 1804 - Orleans territoy organized in La Purchase
March 26, 1827 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna
March 26, 1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster - precusor of bandaid
March 26, 1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
March 26, 1885 - Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film
March 26, 1892 - Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ
March 26, 1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City - Tx - erect statue of Popeye
March 26, 1951 - USAF flag approved
March 26, 1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
March 26, 1958 - Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
March 26, 1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
March 26, 1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
March 26, 1971 - E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
March 26, 1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
March 26, 1982 - Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial
March 27, 1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
March 27, 1625 - Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
March 27, 1794 - Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
March 27, 1802 - Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
March 27, 1807 - Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
March 27, 1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
March 27, 1855 - Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
March 27, 1860 - ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
March 27, 1912 - 1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
March 27, 1917 - Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
March 27, 1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
March 27, 1945 - Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
March 27, 1958 - Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
March 27, 1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska - 8.4 on Richter scale - 100 die
March 27, 1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
March 27, 1968 - Yuri Gagarin - 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
March 27, 1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus
March 27, 1977 - 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
March 27, 1977 - Diana Hyland dies at 40
March 27, 1980 - Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
March 27, 1986 - Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
March 28, 0193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
March 28, 1592 - Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer
March 28, 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
March 28, 1802 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
March 28, 1807 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
March 28, 1834 - Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
March 28, 1871 - SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
March 28, 1930 - Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
March 28, 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
March 28, 1941 - Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
March 28, 1942 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
March 28, 1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
March 28, 1953 - Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
March 28, 1969 - Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
March 28, 1979 - Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa
March 29, 1847 - Vera Cruz - Mexico falls to Americans
March 29, 1871 - Albert Hall opens in London
March 29, 1886 - Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
March 29, 1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio
March 29, 1948 - Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17 - spring training game
March 29, 1961 - 23rd Amendment ratified - Wash DC can vote for pres.
March 29, 1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre
March 29, 1973 - US troops leave Vietnam - 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
March 29, 1974 - Mariner 10's 1st fly-by of Mercury - returns photos
March 29, 1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
March 30, 1822 - Fla became a US territory
March 30, 1842 - Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
March 30, 1858 - Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
March 30, 1867 - US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward's Folly)
March 30, 1870 - 15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race
March 30, 1870 - Tx readmitted to US after Civil War
March 30, 1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens
March 30, 1932 - Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
March 30, 1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II
March 30, 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
March 30, 1950 - Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ
March 30, 1961 - P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies
March 30, 1964 - John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race
March 30, 1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
March 30, 1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
March 30, 1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth
March 30, 1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
March 30, 1986 - James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
March 31, 1814 - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
March 31, 1831 - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
March 31, 1849 - Col John W Geary 1st postmaster of SF
March 31, 1854 - Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
March 31, 1868 - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
March 31, 1870 - Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
March 31, 1880 - Wabash Ind - 1st town completely illuminated by electric light
March 31, 1889 - Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
March 31, 1917 - US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
March 31, 1918 - 1st US daylight savings time goes into effect
March 31, 1923 - 1st dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
March 31, 1932 - Ford publicly unveiled its V-8 engine
March 31, 1933 - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper - "Soperton News" (Ga)
March 31, 1933 - Congress authorized Civilian Conservation Corps
March 31, 1941 - Ground broken for Union Sq Garage
March 31, 1943 - Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
March 31, 1949 - Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
March 31, 1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
March 31, 1958 - US Navy forms atomic sub division
March 31, 1963 - LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
March 31, 1966 - USSR launches Luna 10 - 1st spacecraft to orbit moon
March 31, 1968 - LBJ announces he would not seek re-election
March 31, 1973 - Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders - on 60 shots
March 31, 1976 - Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan could be disc from respirator
March 31, 1980 - Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az at 66
March 31, 1986 - 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes