Today
in History ~ March 19
This is the date the swallows traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano
Mission in California.
Events
721 B.C., according to the Roman historian Ptolemy, Babylonian astronomers noted history's first recorded eclipse: an eclipse of the moon.
1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1563 - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
1702 - James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1799 - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
1803 - Johann von Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina," premieres in Weimar
1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
1859 - The opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.
1864 - Charles Gounod's opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1865 - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 - Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1906 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
1917 - US Supreme Court upholds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1918 - Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish standard time zones in the United States.
1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time by a vote of 49-35, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1925 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago) [H]
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling [H]
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey and Orchestra recorded "Green Eyes" and "Maria Elena" for Decca Records.
1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
1942 - men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 - With World War II under way, FDR orders all men in the United States between the ages of 45 and 64, about 13 million, to register with the draft boards for non-military duty.
1943 - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.
(Albert Speer countermands that order)
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1945 - About 800 people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan, but the ship was saved.
1947 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy - Oak Ridge - Tn
1951 - Herman Wouk's war novel "The Caine Mutiny" was published.
1953 - 25th Academy Awards (1st time televised) - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win
1953 - Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," premieres in NYC
1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM
1960 - "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1964 - Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger"
1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 - Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1968 - Howard University students seize administration building
1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
1970 - W German chancellor & E German premier Willy Brandt meet
1972 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1973 - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 - Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1976 - Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.
1979 - The U.S. House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business.
1981 - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1984 - "Kate & Allie," premieres
1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 - Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1985 - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1987 - South Carolina televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as head of the PTL Club, saying he was blackmailed after a sexual encounter with former church secretary Jessica Hahn.
1988 - 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1989 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1991 - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day (AZ now has MLK Day & Super Bowl)
1991 - The Labor Department reported that consumer prices, benefiting from a big monthly decline in gasoline prices, had edged upward only two-tenths of a percentage point the previous month.
1992 - Democrat Paul Tsongas pulled out of the presidential race, leaving Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton the clear favorite to capture their party's nomination.
1992 - Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew and his wife, the duchess of York, were separating.
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1993 - A high school in the Los Angeles suburb of Lakewood, Calif., was rocked by the arrests of eight youths, allegedly members of a gang that raped and molested girls as part of a game.
1993 - Federal bankruptcy judge confirmed Abraham Hirschfeld, described by his own staff as a "nut," as the buyer of the New York Post.
1993 - Justice Byron White, the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by a Democrat, announced he would retire, opening the way for President Clinton to make his first high judicial nomination.
1995 - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1996 - Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination with solid primary victories in four Midwestern
states; Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin..
1996 - President Clinton rolled out a $1.4 trillion election-year budget, promising it would invigorate the economy, erase federal deficits and cut taxes.
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 - Following the withdrawal of Anthony Lake, President Clinton nominated acting CIA Director George Tenet to head the nation's spy agency.
1997 - President Clinton departed Washington for his summit in Helsinki, Finland, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Artist
1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1997 - A federal judge in Phoenix, Az., began sentencing 10 members of a paramilitary group to prison after they pleaded guilty to various counts, including conspiracy to make and possess destructive devices.
2000 - President Clinton arrived near New Delhi on the first presidential visit to India in 22 years and opened a six-day trip through troubled South Asia.
2001 - California officials declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling blackouts.
Birthdays
Today
1589 - William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)
1593 - Georges de la Tour, French painter
1601 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1629 - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1813 - David Livingstone (missionary, explorer: the Livingstone of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," spoken by Henry M. Stanley who found Livingstone in Africa after a two year search)
1821 - Sir Richard Burton, explorer translator (The Arabian Nights)
1848 - Wyatt Earp, Monmouth Ill, (frontiersman, lawman, gunfighter: gunfight at O.K. Corral)
1851 - Roque S enz Pe¤a, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
1860 - William Jennings Bryan (politician: member of U.S. Congress, Democratic U.S. presidential nominee [1896]; the "silver-tongued orator": Scopes trial)
'The Great Commoner'
1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1873 - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1882 - Gaston Lachaise, US sculptor (Standing Woman)
1883 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
1891 - Earl Warren (14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1953-69])
1894 - Jackie 'Moms' Mabley (Loretta Mary Aiken) Brevard SC, (comedienne: Abraham, Martin & John; films: Boarding House Blues, Emperor Jones, Amazing Grace, Killer Diller)
1900 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1901 - Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
1904 - John J Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
1905 - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
1912 - Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot Luftwaffe ace commanded Battle of Britain
1914 - Patricia Morrison (musician: bass; singer, actress) (Peyton Place)
1916 - Irving Wallace (novelist and biographer:The Fan Club, The Word, The Man; co-author with David Wallechinsky: The People's Almanac)
1917 - Dino Lipatti, composer/pianist
1921 - Martha Carson (singer)
1923 - Tige Andrews (Tiger Androwaous) (actor: The Detectives, The Mod Squad)
1927 - Richie Ashburn (Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets; broadcaster for three decades for the Phillies)
1928 - Patrick McGoohan (actor: Secret Agent, Braveheart, Escape from Alcatraz, The Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, I Am a Camera)
1929 - Gene Taylor (jazz musician)
1930 - Bill Henderson (singer)
1932 - Gay Brewer Jr. (golfer: Masters Champion [1967])
1933 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1935 - Nancy Malone (actress: The Long Hot Summer, Naked City)
1935 - Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ (actress: Coming of Age, That was the Week That was, Picnic, A Secret Space)
1935 - Renee Taylor, NYC, actress (Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny)
1938 - Ursula Andress (actress: Dr. No, Casino Royale, Fun in Acapulco, What's New Pussycat, Clash of the Titans)
1939 - Joe Kapp (football: QB Minnesota Vikings: Super Bowl IV; shares NFL Individual Record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7]: Vikings vs. Baltimore Colts [9/28/69])
1942 - Robin Luke (singer: Susie Darlin')
1944 - Lynda Bird Johnson (daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and wife Lady Bird)
1946 - Ruth Pointer (singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He's So Shy, Jump (for My Love), Automatic, Neutron Dance, I'm So Excited, Dare Me)
1947 - Glen Close, Greenwich Conn (Tony Award-winning actress: The Real Thing [1984], Death and the Maiden [1992], Sunset Boulevard [1995]; Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill)
1952 - Chris Brubeck (composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubeck's son)
1955 - Bruce (Walter) Willis (Emmy Award-winning actor: Moonlighting [1987]; Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Pulp Fiction, Hudson Hawk, The Last Boy Scout, Billy
Bathgate)
Famous
deaths
1644 - Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1687 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43
1702 - Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1796 - Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
1862 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1884 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1974 - Anne Klien dies at 50
1994 - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1996 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 - Willem de Kooning, considered one of the 20th century's greatest painters, (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer died in East Hampton, N.Y., at age 92.
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