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, 475,224 hours 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
- 1863 –The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
- 1895 –Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- 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.
- 1932 –The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1958 –The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
- 1962 –Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
- 1979 –The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
- 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.
- 1990 –The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
- 2004 –A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
Who were born on March 19?
- 1873 –Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
- 1883 –Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
- 1892 –James Van Fleet, American military officer (d. 1992)
- 1900 –Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
- 1905 –Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (d. 2010)
- 1917 –Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
- 1920 –Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
- 1928 –Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
- 1937 –Clarence “Frogman” Henry, American musician
- 1975 –Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
Who died on March 19?
- 1238 –Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
- 1330 –Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
- 1637 –Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
- 1711 –Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
- 1979 –Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
- 1984 –Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
- 1992 –Cesare Danova, American television and film actor (b. 1926)
- 1998 –E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Indian Communist politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
- 2003 –Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
- 2008 –Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
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