March 19......

March 19 is the 78th (79th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining in the year on this date. March 19 is usually the last day of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the last day of the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 721 BC - 1st recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon

● 624 - Muhammed proclaims the "Day of Deliverance"

● 1227 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX

● 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

● 1452 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor

● 1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas

● 1540 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"

● 1563 - The Edict of Amboise granted a limited amount of freedom to French Protestants, thereby ending the First Huguenot War.

● 1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila

● 1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen

● 1641 - A General Court ended which declared the Colony of Rhode Island a democracy. The Court also adopted a constitution granting religious freedom to all its citizens.

● 1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide

● 1682 - Nationally Council accept independence of French church

● 1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

● 1702 - Upon the death of William III of Orange, Anne Stuart, the sister of Mary, succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

● 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

● 1820 - Birth of Ferdinand Gambon, Bourges. French lawyer, magistrate, initially moderate republican, Gambon became a socialist, anarchist, and pacifist revolutionary. Elected member of the Paris Commune. Defense lawyer for the Lyons anarchists in the 1883 trials.

● 1822 - Boston MA incorporated as a city

● 1831 - First bank robbery in the U.S. City Bank of New York was opened with duplicate keys and robbed of $245,000. Edward Smith was later convicted and got five years at Sing Sing.

● 1848 - Birth of western gunman and sometime lawman Wyatt Earp.

● 1859 - Birth of Ellen Starr, co-founder of Hull House in Chicago.

● 1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.

● 1863 - The Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana was destroyed on her maiden voyage. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and adventurer E. Lee Spence.

● 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.

● 1866 - Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die

● 1879 - Jim Currie opened fire on the actors Maurice Barrymore and Ben Porter near Marshall, TX. The shots wounded Barrymore and killed Porter.

● 1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes

● 1885 - Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan

● 1891 - Earl Warren, the governor of California and the 14th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, was born in Los Angeles.

● 1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service

● 1900 - U.S. President McKinley asserted that there was a need for free trade with Puerto Rico.

● 1900 - Archeologist Arthur John Evans began the excavation of Knossos Palace in Greece.

● 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.

● 1905 - French explorer S. de Segonzac was taken prisoner by Moroccans.

● 1906 - Reports from Berlin estimated the cost of the German war in S.W. Africa at $150 million.

● 1907 - 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch NV (state record)

● 1908 - The state of Maryland barred Christian Scientists from practicing without medical diplomas.

● 1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet. {However, that's OK since it still isn't recognized as a planet.}

● 1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.

● 1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)

● 1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

● 1918 - S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane

● 1920 - US Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval. (maintaining isolation policy)

● 1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train to a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled, three wounded.

● 1924 - U.S. troops were rushed to Tegucigalpa as rebel forces took the Honduran capital.

● 1925 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop

● 1927 - Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin

● 1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

● 1931 - The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra played its first concert in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

● 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened

● 1935 - Over 100 people injured and $2 million worth of white property destroyed as riots break out in Harlem after a black man's eye was gouged out by policemen. Mayor La Guardia later refused to release a study blaming the violence on police brutality.

● 1937 - Pius XI declared in the encyclical "Divini redemptoris": 'There would be neither Socialism nor Communism today if the rulers of the nations had not scorned the teachings and material warnings of the Church.'

● 1940 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt

● 1940 - French government of Daladier, falls

● 1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty

● 1943 - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks

● 1943 - Frank Nitti, Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone committed suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.

● 1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.

● 1944 - German Lutheran pastor and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter: 'We can have abundant life, even though many wishes remain unfulfilled.'

● 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a Kamikaze 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.

● 1945 - British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)

● 1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure

● 1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

● 1946 - Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as President of USSR

● 1947 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms

● 1947 - Chiang Kai-Shek's government forces took control of Yenan, the former headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party.

● 1949 - The Soviet People's Council signed the constitution of the German Democratic Republic, and declared that the North Atlantic Treaty was merely a war weapon.

● 1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN

● 1950 - Charles Benoit dies, in Paris. Revolutionary socialist, then an anarchist.

● 1954 - Books by German anarchist psychoanalyst William Reich burned by U.S. government.

● 1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo NM

● 1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London

● 1958 - A fire in a loft building in New York, New York kills 24 people.

● 1962 - In effort to block massive layoffs and end strike, New York City moves to condemn and seize Fifth Avenue Coach, largest privately owned bus company in the world.

● 1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.

● 1962 - Bob Dylan releases his first, self-titled album.

● 1962 - Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal

● 1963 - Fifty Greenwich Village folk artists protest Pete Seeger's blacklisting from the television show "Hootenanny."

● 1963 - In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.

● 1964 - 'Ambitious' plans for south east; Three new cities are proposed for south east England as part of the largest regional expansion plan in Britain as the population is expected to boom by three million.

● 1965 - Forty-nine arrested in New York City for protesting Chase Manhattan Bank loans to South Africa.

● 1965 - Alabama governor George Wallace tells President Johnson that his state cannot afford the expense of calling out the National Guard to protect civil rights marchers during a Selma-to-Montgomery march. Oddly, there never seemed to be a budget problem when business or state property or was thought to be "threatened."

● 1965 - Chivu Stoica becomes President of the Council of Romanian People's Republic & Nicolae Ceausescu appointed 1st Secretary of Romanian communist party

● 1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies

● 1966 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins

● 1967 - French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France

● 1968 - Presidential advisors advise getting out of Vietnam War.

● 1968 - Howard Univ. students seize campus to demand African American studies courses. Washington, D.C. {Somehow, I doubt that Bill Cosby would be among them.}

● 1969 - British invade Anguilla

● 1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

● 1969 - collapse of 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, because of icing.

● 1970 - Three thousand people shut down military induction center. 116 arrested. Syracuse NY.

● 1970 - Two hundred women seize the New York offices of "Ladies Home Journal," demanding what they call a "Women's Liberated Journal." Led by author Susan Brownmiller, the group includes members of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Redstockings, New York Radical Feminists, and the Older Women's League. The sit-in lasted into the evening. Eventually publisher John Mack Carter agreed to include a collectively written eight-page feminist supplement in the August 1970 issue.

● 1970 - Willi and Willy meet in East Germany; Crowds of East Germans cheer West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt as he meets East Germany's leader Willi Stoph for the first time since the two countries were divided.

● 1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.

● 1973 - The chief of security of CREEP (Tricky Dick's "Committee to Re-Elect the President"), James McCord, writes a letter to Judge Sirica detailing high crimes about the Watergate break-in. Beginning of the end for Dick.

● 1973 - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"

● 1975 - Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in High School sports

● 1977 - Congo President Marien Ngouabi was killed by a suicide commando.

● 1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1978 - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb

● 1978 - UN Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 were passed, calling upon Israel immediately to cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory (Operation Litani), and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

● 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: Argentine flag hoisted on Falklands; A group of Argentines land at the British colony of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic and plant their nation's flag, precipitating war.

● 1982 - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27

● 1984 - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York

● 1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

● 1984 - STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad

● 1985 - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile

● 1986 - Pres. Reagan and Canada's Prime Minister Mulroney finally agree on acid rain actions. If only there were such leadership regarding global warming...

● 1987 - Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago

● 1987 - Jim Bakker, 48, stepped down as head of the PTL {Pass The Loot} ministry amid disclosures of a 1980 sexual liaison with church secretary Jessica Hahn.

● 1988 - 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland

● 1989 - Forty-five hundred join Women's Walk Home nonviolent crossing of Green Line partition, Cyprus.

● 1989 - Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight

● 1990 - Latvia's political opposition claimed victory in the republic's first free elections in 50 years.

● 1991 - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day

● 1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire

● 1994 - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands

● 1995 - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway

● 1995 - Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix

● 1995 - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election

● 1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage

● 1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

● 1997 - Artist Willem de Kooning died at age 92.

● 1998 - The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people in next two decades.

● 1999 - 53 people were killed and dozens were injured when a bomb exploded in a market place in southern Russia.

● 2000 - Vector Data Systems conducted a simulation of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, TX. The simulation showed that the government had not fired first.

● 2001 - California officials declared a power alert and ordered the first of two days of rolling blackouts.

● 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 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced that U.S. forces had launched a strike against "targets of military opportunity" in Iraq. The attack, using cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs, were aimed at Iraqi leaders thought to be near Baghdad. {Thus begins Vietnam II.}

● 2003 - Mahmoud Abbas accepted the new position of Palestinian prime minister.

● 2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster - A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.

● 2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.

● 2004 - Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. See 3-19 Shooting Incident.

● 2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain.

● 2007 - Partial solar eclipse in Western Asia and the south Pacific.

BIRTHS

● 1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)

● 1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)

● 1534 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil (d. 1597)

● 1601 - Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1667)

● 1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)

● 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)

● 1734 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)

● 1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)

● 1748 - Elias Hicks, American Quaker minister; advocated the abolition of slavery (d. 1830)

● 1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)

● 1809 (OS) - Nikolay Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist and novelist (d. 1852)

● 1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)

● 1821 - Sir Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author (d. 1890)

● 1824 or 1828 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)

● 1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)

● 1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)

● 1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)

● 1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)

● 1860 - William Jennings Bryan, American Democratic and Populist leader (d. 1925)

● 1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)

● 1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)

● 1871 - Schofield Haigh, British cricketer (d. 1921)

● 1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (d. 1929)

● 1873 - Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)

● 1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)

● 1883 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (d. 1946)

● 1888 - Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)

● 1888 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)

● 1891 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953-69) (d. 1974)

● 1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)

● 1894 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (d. 1975)

● 1894 - Joe Venuti, American musician (d. 1978)

● 1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)

● 1901 - Jo Mielziner, American stage designer (d. 1976)

● 1904 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)

● 1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)

● 1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)

● 1909 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)

● 1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)

● 1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)

● 1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)

● 1914 - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)

● 1915 - Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)

● 1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)

● 1916 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)

● 1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)

● 1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)

● 1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)

● 1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)

● 1923 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)

● 1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)

● 1925 - Brent Scowcroft, Former national security adviser

● 1927 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)

● 1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian

● 1928 - Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor

● 1930 - Ornette Coleman, American musician

● 1933 - Phyllis Newman, Actress, singer

● 1933 - Renee Taylor, Actress

● 1933 - Philip Roth, American author

● 1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress

● 1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer

● 1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician

● 1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany

● 1939 - Joe Kapp, American football player

● 1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician

● 1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize

● 1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin

● 1946 - Ruth Pointer, Singer (The Pointer Sisters)

● 1947 - Glenn Close, American actress

● 1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player

● 1952 - Harvey Weinstein, Movie producer

● 1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)

● 1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor

● 1958 - Andy Reid, Football coach

● 1962 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)

● 1962 - Jim Korderas, American professional wrestling referee

● 1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer

● 1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer

● 1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor

● 1970 - Gert Bettens, Rock musician (K's Choice)

● 1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel

● 1971 - Kirsty Williams, British politician

● 1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model

● 1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model

● 1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer

● 1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian Rules footballer

● 1976 - Zach Lind, Rock musician (Jimmy Eat World)

● 1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer

● 1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean Major League Baseball player

● 1979 - Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer

● 1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer

● 1980 - Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator

● 1981 - Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model

● 1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer

● 1982 - Matt Littler, British actor

● 1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver

● 1989 - Craig Lamar Traylor, Actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')

DEATHS

● 1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)

● 1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal

● 1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)

● 1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)

● 1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (executed) (b. 1301)

● 1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)

● 1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)

● 1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)

● 1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)

● 1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)

● 1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)

● 1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)

● 1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)

● 1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist

● 1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)

● 1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)

● 1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)

● 1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)

● 1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)

● 1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)

● 1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)

● 1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist

● 1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)

● 1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)

● 1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)

● 1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)

● 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)

● 1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

● 1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)

● 1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1889)

● 1976 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)

● 1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)

● 1979 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)

● 1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy) (b. 1956)

● 1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

● 1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)

● 1990 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)

● 1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)

● 1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)

● 1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)

● 2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)

● 2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)

● 2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adeltrudis (d.670)
● St. Adrian
● St. Gemus
● St. John the Syrian of Pinna
● St. Joseph of Nazareth, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stepfather of Jesus
● St. Lactali
● St. Landoald
● St. Leontius
● St. Quintius
● St. Pancharius

● Roman Catholicism, Lutheran, and Church of England (Anglican) - Saint Joseph's Day for Saint Joseph of Nazareth, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stepfather of Jesus; patron saint of Belgium, a good death, carpenters
● hence also (alternative) Father's Day in Spain, Portugal, Belgium
● {In the area of the country (the mesa east of Pueblo, Colorado) where my mother and grandmother were born and raised, this day was celebrated by the local Italians in a very similar manner that of St. Patrick's Day was celebrated by the Irish; schools were closed, parades were held and there was a massive feast at the local Catholic churches.}

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 6 (Civil Date: March 19)
● The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes and others.
● St. Arcadius, monk of Cyprus.
● Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon of Iconium.
● The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helen.
● Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria.
● St. Fridolin, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine.

● Greek Calendar:
● Monk-martyr Maximus.
● Martyr Euphrosynus.
● Martyrs Julian and Eubulus.
● St. Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk.
● Repose of Elder Job of Solovki (1720).

● Italy, Spain, Canary Island : St. Joseph's Day

● The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

● The first day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.

● Mojoday in Discordianism

● Australia : Canberra Day

● Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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