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 78th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 6, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,039,040 minutes 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 ‘heptacontaoctagon’ day.
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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 335 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 4,471 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
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
- 1885 –Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
- 1915 –Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
- 1918 –The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
- 1921 –Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
- 1945 –World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
- 1954 –Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
- 1965 –The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
- 1966 –Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
- 2004 –Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
Who were born on March 19?
- 1813 –David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
- 1891 –Earl Warren, American politician and jurist; 30th Governor of California; and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
- 1921 –Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
- 1932 –Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
- 1936 –Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
- 1952 –Wolfgang Ambros, Austrian singer-songwriter
- 1974 –Marcel Tiemann, German racing driver
- 1976 –Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
- 1987 –Milos Teodosic, Serbian basketball player
- 1989 –Craig Lamar Traylor, American actor
Who died on March 19?
- 1238 –Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
- 1623 –Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- 1687 –Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
- 1711 –Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
- 1930 –Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- 1950 –Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
- 1979 –Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
- 1982 –Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) (b. 1956)
- 1999 –Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- 2007 –Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
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