What happened this day in history

Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.

Did you know? There are many who claim Herodotus, a fifth century BC Greek historian, as the “father of history”.

This website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,060 records in the database that include events, births and deaths of popular individuals. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.

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What are the important events that happened on March 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 19 is the 79th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 6, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,710,806,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontaenneagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 316 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,106 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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It’s uncommon for the March equinox to fall on this day. The last time it did was in 1796 and the next will be in 2044.

March 19 Historical Events

  • 1279
    A Mongolian victory Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
  • 1853
    The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
  • 1989
    The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
  • 2002
    Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
  • 2003
    United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.

Who were born on March 19?

  • 1488
    Johannes Magnus, Swedish religious figure (d. 1544)
  • 1915
    Patricia Morison, American actress
  • 1917
    Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
  • 1933
    Richard Williams, Canadian animator
  • 1955
    Bruce Willis, American actor

Who died on March 19?

  • 1649
    Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
  • 1984
    Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
  • 1997
    Willem de Kooning, Dutch-born painter (b. 1904)
  • 1998
    E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Indian Communist politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
  • 1999
    Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)

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