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'''March 19''' is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). There are 287 days remaining. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Feb – '''March''' – Apr |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |   | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |- style="text-align:center;" | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |- style="text-align:center;" | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |- style="text-align:center;" | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |- style="text-align:center;" | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 ||colspan=3|   |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangement
All days |} ==Events== *1279 - Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. *1687 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. *1831 - The City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken). *1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand. *1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from Greenville, North Carolina. *1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet. *1916 - First United States air combat mission in history as eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa. *1918 - The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. *1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919). *1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens. *1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is established in Chicago, Illinois. *1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary. *1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a 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. *1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and R�union become overseas d�partements of France. *1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color. *1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A cease fire takes effect. *1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty. *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: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war. *1987 - Following a scandal involving Jessica Hahn, televangelist Jim Bakker resigns from the PTL. *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 - The invasion of Iraq begins (with the time difference, it actually begins on March 20 at 0100 UTC) *2004 - ��nekoski bus disaster - A long-distance lorry and a bus crashed head-on in ��nekoski, Finland. 24 people were killed and 13 injured. *2004 - The Swedish DC-3, shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s, is finally rescued after years of recovery work. The remains of the crew were left in place, pending further investigations. *2004 - Taiwanese president Chen Shui-ban was shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. See 3-19 Shooting Incident. ==Births== *1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar, (d. 1766) *1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771) *1813 - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, (d. 1873) *1848 - Wyatt Earp, policeman, gunfighter, (d. 1929) *1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier, (d. 1930) *1864 - Charles Marion Russell, artist, (d. 1926) *1865 - William Morton Wheeler, US entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology, (d. 1937) *1873 - Max Reger, composer, (d. 1916) *1883 - Joseph Stilwell, US general, (d. 1946) *1888 - Josef Albers, artist (d. 1976) *1891 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, (d. 1974) *1894 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist, (d. 1978) * 1894 - Moms Mabley, comedienne, (d. 1975) *1900 - Fr�d�ric Joliot, physicist and winner of 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry, (d. 1958) *1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official, (d. 1981) *1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official, (d. 1962) *1909 - Louis Hayward, actor, (d. 1985) *1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy, (d. 2002) *1916 - Irving Wallace, novelist, (d. 1990) *1917 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist, (d. 1950) *1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author *1921 - Tommy Cooper, comedy magician *1928 - Hans K�ng, theologian * 1928 - Patrick McGoohan, actor *1930 - Ornette Coleman, musician *1933 - Philip Roth, author *1936 - Ursula Andress, actress *1939 - Joe Kapp, US football star *1943 - Mario Monti, aka "Super Mario" *1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize * 1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin *1947 - Glenn Close, actress *1955 - Bruce Willis, actor (''Die Hard'', ''The Sixth Sense'') *1969 - Connor Trinneer, actor (''Star Trek: Enterprise'') *1980 - Liav Hertsman, producer (''yes'') *1989 - Christopher Merrill, Wikipedia User. ==Deaths== *1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland, (b. 1241) *1721 - Pope Clement XI, (b. 1649) *1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, civil rights activist, (b. c. 1913) *1945 - Friedrich Fromm, Nazi official *1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author, (b. 1875) *1978 - Gaston Julia, mathematician, (Julia Sets) *1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, art deco painter, (b. 1898) *1982 - Randy Rhoads, guitarist of Quiet Riot (b. 1956) *1987 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics, (b. 1892) *1997 - Willem de Kooning, artist, (b. 1904) *2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, illustrator *2004 - Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister (b. 1911) ==Holidays and observances== *Roman Catholicism and Church of England - Saint Joseph's Day for Saint Joseph of Nazareth, spouse of Mary, the mother of Jesus. **Father's Day in Spain, Portugal, Belgium. **Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain. *The first day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva. *The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. *Mojoday in Discordianism ---- March 18 - March 20 - February 19 - April 19 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} bg:19 март cy:19 Mawrth da:19. marts de:19. 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