March 20......

March 20 is the 79th (80th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining in the year on this date. March 20 is also the usual date of the vernal equinox (first day of spring) in the Northern Hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox (first day of autumn) 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

● 43 B.C. - Birth of Ovid (43 BC-17 AD), Sulmona, in the Abruzzi. Banished from Rome, ostensibly for writing "The Art of Love," a guide to lovemaking.

● 141 - 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 1345 - A triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius occurring on this day is (later) given as the reason for the Black Death.

● 1413 - England's King Henry IV died.

● 1413 - Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry IV.

● 1525 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants

● 1598 - French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty

● 1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.

● 1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

● 1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

● 1627 - France & Spain signs accord for fighting Protestantism

● 1697 - Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"

● 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton - physicist, mathematician and astronomer - died in London.

● 1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

● 1739 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'I look upon all the world as my parish.'

● 1747 - American missionary David Brainerd, 28, ended two-and one-half years of labor among the colonial Indians of New England, after having been continually plagued with ill health. (Brainerd died of tuberculosis seven months later.)

● 1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

● 1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.

● 1800 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo

● 1814 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands

● 1815 - Switzerland declares permanent neutrality in all wars.

● 1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

● 1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

● 1828 - The Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen was born.

● 1833 - US & Siam conclude commercial treaty

● 1840 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'The more God opens your eyes, the more you will feel that you are lost in yourself.'

● 1848 - Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

● 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's (41) "Uncle Tom's Cabin," subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," published, provoking a wave of hatred against slavery. The first novel to sell a million copies. Stowe's novel would have aroused condemnation today for its patronizing view of African Americans, but at this time the controversy concerns Stowe's depiction of slaves as human beings. By the end of 1853, more than 300,000 copies sell, an astronomical figure at the time. Within three years, Southerners respond with 30 anti-Tom novels aimed at reversing public sympathies. The controversy it kindled helped lead to the American Civil War, nine years later.

● 1856 - Frederick W. Taylor, an American inventor who helped industries worldwide become more efficient, was born.

● 1856 - Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers.

● 1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, a city in western Argentina.

● 1863 - President Lincoln makes proclamation offering lands of the Cowlitz (near Longview, Wash.) for sale, even through the tribe had never signed a treaty relinquishing them.

● 1863 - Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals

● 1865 - A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was ruined when Lincoln changed his plans and did not appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC.

● 1865 - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC

● 1865 - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives

● 1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville KY of $14,000

● 1883 - Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

● 1885 - John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

● 1886 - 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Massachusetts

● 1889 - Birth of Jean de Boe, Anderlecht, Belgium. Militant anarchist, syndicalist and cooperativist.

● 1890 - General Federation of Womens' Clubs founded

● 1890 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

● 1891 - The first computing scale company was incorporated in Dayton, OH.

● 1896 - Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution.

● 1896 - Uprising in Matabeleland

● 1897 - 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York

● 1897 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

● 1899 - Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed by electrocution. She had tried to kill her 17-year-old stepdaughter with acid and an ax, but wound up smothering her with a pillow. Sing Sing Prison, New York.

● 1900 - It was announced that European powers had agreed to keep China's doors open to trade.

● 1902 - France and Russia acknowledged the Anglo-Japanese alliance. They also asserted their right to protect their interests in China and Korea.

● 1904 - Birth of B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in the rather creepy field of Behaviorism.

● 1906 - In Russia, army officers mutiny at Sevastopol.

● 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

● 1915 - The French called off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front.

● 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.

● 1916 - Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium

● 1918 - The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union asked for American aid to rebuild their army.

● 1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1½ months)

● 1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

● 1922 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.

● 1923 - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA

● 1923 - Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent

● 1924 - Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn

● 1928 - Birth of Fred Rogers, American Presbyterian clergyman and -- since its premiere in 1965 -- host of public television's longest running children's program: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."

● 1931 - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin

● 1932 - The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, made the first flight to South America on regular schedule.

● 1932 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR

● 1933 - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed

● 1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

● 1934 - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany

● 1937 - Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain

● 1939 - 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania

● 1940 - The British Royal Air Force conducted an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.

● 1940 - Paul Reynoud becomes French premier

● 1941 - Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn

● 1942 - In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.

● 1942 - in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, on Friday, German SS murder 3000 Jews, including 600 Jewish children, annihalating 70 % of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. The entire action took one day, from early morning to five o'clock in the evening. All the dead were buried in a mass grave behind the railroad station in Rohatyn.

● 1942 - General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

● 1942 - Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia

● 1942 - Major German assault on Malta

● 1943 - The Allies attacked Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa.

● 1943 - German U-384 bombed & sinks

● 1944 - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16

● 1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes

● 1945 - US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar

● 1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns

● 1951 - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java

● 1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū. was founded. The city rests at the base of majestic Mount Fuji, and is built upon old lava flows.

● 1952 - South African Supreme Court rules that a law placing "Cape Coloured" voters on a separate voter registry is invalid.

● 1952 - US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan

● 1954 - 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)

● 1956 - E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st Secretary of Polish CP

● 1956 - Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes

● 1956 - Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp

● 1956 - USSR performs nuclear test

● 1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.

● 1957 - Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it

● 1958 - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line

● 1958 - Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission

● 1960 - Cuba - Anarchist-syndicalist workers' papers -- including "Solidaridad" Gastronomico" -- forced to cease publishing.

● 1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

● 1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.

● 1968 - Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)

● 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money

● 1969 - Chicago 8 indicted by grand jury for "inciting" Chicago Democratic Convention protests the previous summer, and, presumably, the police riots that followed.

● 1969 - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan.

● 1969 - Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa

● 1969 - US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970. {This lying bag of crap also claimed during the 1968 elections to have a secret peace plan.}

● 1970 - Collision involving the tanker Othello, in Tralhavet Bay, Sweden, results in a 60,000-100,000 ton oil spill. {This small amount isn't even noted in most of the this day in history sites.}

● 1972 - 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche

● 1972 - Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee

● 1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

● 1976 - Patricia "Tania" Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her role in the hold up of a San Francisco Bank.

● 1977 - Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

● 1977 - Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

● 1979 - An estimated 150,000 or more people march through Dublin; other anti- tax protests occur in 30 towns throughout the country, including a march by 40,000 workers in Cork.

● 1979 - Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center

● 1980 - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran

● 1981 - Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years

● 1981 - Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor

● 1982 - Pierre Lentengre (aka Pierre Lentente) (1890-1982) dies, in Var. French militant and founder of a Parisian anarchist group.

● 1982 - U.S. scientists' return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.

● 1982 - France performs nuclear test

● 1982 - Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa

● 1983 - One hundred fifty thousand people (1% of the country's population) join in anti-nuclear rallies across Australia.

● 1984 - Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools

● 1985 - Bolivian Army crushes general strike.

● 1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

● 1986 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1986 - 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)

● 1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.

● 1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)

● 1987 - NASA launches Palapa B2P

● 1989 - Twenty militant Berkeley (Calif.) protesters are maced and arrested in a San Francisco Federal Building blockade.

● 1989 - Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA

● 1989 - A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.

● 1989 - Senior RUC men die in gun attack; Two senior RUC officers negotiating cross-border security co-operation in south Armagh are ambushed and shot dead by the IRA.

● 1990 - Namibia became an independent nation ending 75 years of South African rule.

● 1990 - In Rumania, tanks were sent to the town of Tirgu Mures to quell ethnic riots.

● 1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. {And having an obese taste in shoes.}

● 1991 - Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus

● 1991 - US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland

● 1992 - Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses

● 1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule. He set a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress to govern.

● 1993 - An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Warrington, England, killing 3-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry.

● 1994 - El Salvador's 1st Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war

● 1994 - Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa

● 1995 - About 35,000 Turkish troops crossed the northern border of Iraq in pursuit of the separatist rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

● 1995 - In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan.

● 1996 - Twenty-five arrested at Dept. of Justice in Washington, D.C., and 27 others in San Francisco, during protests demanding freedom for Leonard Peltier.

● 1996 - A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents.

● 1996 - UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)

● 1997 - Three hundred family farmers protest factory-style hog farms at a National Pork Producers Council meeting. Urbandale, Iowa.

● 1997 - Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry marketed cigarettes to teenagers and agreed to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive.

● 1998 - Death of Agustin Gomez Arcos (1939-1998) from cancer, Paris. Spanish anarchist dramatist/novelist. Because of censorship he took refuge in England, then Paris, where he wrote many novels about pro-Franco Spain.

● 1998 - India's new Hindu nationalist-led government pledges to "exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons."

● 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first men to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. The non-stop trip began on March 3 and covered 26,500 miles.

● 2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.

● 2002 - Seven Israelis died when an Islamic militant blew himself up on a packed bus.

● 2002 - Arthur Andersen plead innocent to charges that it had shredded documents and deleted computer files related to the energy company Enron.

● 2003 - Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was buying The Linksys Group Inc. for $500 million in stock.

● 2003 - United States and U.K., in defiance of the United Nations and global opinion, launch an unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Massive protests immediately begin worldwide. In one day, over 1,500 people are arrested in San Francisco, and civil disobedience actions also paralyze downtown highways in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and numerous other U.S. cities.

● 2004 - The U.S. military charged six soldiers with abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

● 2004 - Former Dutch Queen Juliana died at age 94.

● 2004 - Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, thus becoming the first leader in the party's history.

● 2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

● 2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia.

● 2006 - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.

BIRTHS

● 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)

● 1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)

● 1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)

● 1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)

● 1735 - Torbern Olof Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)

● 1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)

● 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)

● 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)

● 1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)

● 1811 - George Caleb Bingham, American frontier politician and painter (d. 1879)

● 1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)

● 1823 - E.Z.C. Judson, American adventurer and writer of 19th century "dime novels" (d. 1886)

● 1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)

● 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)

● 1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)

● 1834 - Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)

● 1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)

● 1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)

● 1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)

● 1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915)

● 1870 - Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)

● 1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)

● 1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)

● 1876 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)

● 1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)

● 1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (d. 1973)

● 1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)

● 1897 - Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam

● 1903 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)

● 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)

● 1906 - Abraham Beame, American politician (d. 2001)

● 1906 - Ozzie Nelson, American actor (d. 1975)

● 1908 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)

● 1911 - Alfonso García Robles, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)

● 1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)

● 1915 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)

● 1917 - Vera Lynn, English actress and singer

● 1918 - Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984)

● 1918 - Marian McPartland, British jazz musician

● 1920 - Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997)

● 1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)

● 1922 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990)

● 1922 - Carl Reiner, American director

● 1925 - John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999)

● 1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)

● 1931 - Hal Linden, American actor (''Barney Miller'')

● 1933 - George Altman, American baseball player

● 1933 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet

● 1934 - Willie Brown, American politician

● 1935 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)

● 1936 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)

● 1937 - Jerry Reed, American musician

● 1939 - Don Edwards, Country singer

● 1939 - Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada

● 1941 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player

● 1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer

● 1943 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist

● 1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer

● 1945 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot

● 1945 - Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach

● 1945 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author

● 1945 - Rick Berman, American TV and film producer

● 1946 - Ranger Doug, Country musician (Riders in the Sky)

● 1948 - John de Lancie, American actor

● 1948 - Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer

● 1950 - William Hurt, American actor

● 1950 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

● 1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)

● 1954 - Jimmy Seales, Country musician (Shenandoah)

● 1957 - Theresa Russell, Actress

● 1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress

● 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director

● 1957 - David Foster, Australian world champion woodchopper

● 1958 - Holly Hunter, American actress

● 1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist

● 1959 - Sting, American professional wrestler

● 1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor

● 1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats)

● 1961 - Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer

● 1962 - Stephen Sommers, American film director

● 1963 - Paul Annacone, American tennis player

● 1963 - Kathy Ireland, American model

● 1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer

● 1965 - Adrian Oxaal, Rock musician (James)

● 1968 - Liza Snyder, Actress (''Yes, Dear'')

● 1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer

● 1970 - Michael Rapaport, Actor

● 1971 - Alexander Chaplin, Actor

● 1971 - Touré, American writer

● 1971 - Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player

● 1972 - Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)

● 1973 - Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor

● 1974 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress

● 1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer

● 1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)

● 1978 - Michael Genadry, Actor

● 1979 - Bianca Lawson, American actress

● 1980 - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player

● 1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer

● 1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)

● 1982 - Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer

● 1984 - Kurt Koebel Mosher Jr, Great-Grandson of Koebel Diamond Tool founder Charles Koebel, Grandson of Professional Football player Charley E. Mosher

● 1984 - Marcus Vick, American football player

● 1984 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer

● 1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress

● 1984 - Winta, Norwegian musician

● 1985 - Chris Beattie, British actor

● 1987 - Rollo Weeks, British actor

DEATHS

● 1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)

● 1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)

● 1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)

● 1568 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)

● 1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)

● 1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)

● 1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)

● 1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist (b. 1642)

● 1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)

● 1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)

● 1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)

● 1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)

● 1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)

● 1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)

● 1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)

● 1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)

● 1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)

● 1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)

● 1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)

● 1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)

● 1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)

● 1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b. 1859)

● 1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)

● 1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

● 1934 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)

● 1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)

● 1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)

● 1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)

● 1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)

● 1991 - Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986)

● 1992 - Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)

● 1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

● 1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1946)

● 1995 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)

● 1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)

● 1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician

● 2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)

● 2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)

● 2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

● 2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)

● 2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (b. 1912)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexandra and Companions
● St. Anastasius XVI
● St. Archippus
● St. Benignus
● St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (d.704)
● St. Herbert (d.687)
● St. John, Sergius, & Companions
● St. Martin of Braga
● St. Nicetas
● St. Paul and Companions
● St. Photina
● St. Tetricus
● St. Urbitius
● St. William of Penacorada
● St. Wulfram (d.704)
● Bl. John of Parma

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 7 (Civil Date: March 20)
● Hieromartyr of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus.
● St. Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plusias in Bithynia.
● St. Paul the Simple of Egypt, disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
● St. Emilian of Rome.

● Greek Calendar:
● Saints Nestor and Arcadius, bishops of Tremithus.
● St. Laurence, founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God in Salamina.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety for sinners".
● Repose of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam (1931)

● Anglican:
● St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne

● The vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.

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

● New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox.

● Canberra Day

● Iran : Oil Nationalization Day

● Tunisia : Independence Day (1956)

● Stephen Colbert Day (Oshawa, Ontario)

IN FICTION

● 1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"


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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