Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
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Today in History
March 19
| 1687 | The French explorer La Salle is murdered in by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| 1702 | On the death of William III of Orange, Anne Stuart, sister of Mary, succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland. | |
| 1822 | Boston is incorporated as a city. | |
| 1879 | Jim Currie opens fire on the actors Maurice Barrymore and Ben Porter near Marshall, Texas. His shots wound Barrymore and kill Porter. | |
| 1903 | The U.S. Senate ratifies the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda. | |
| 1916 | The First Aero Squadron takes off from Columbus, NM to join Gen. John J. Pershing and his Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. | |
| 1917 | The Adamson Act, eight hour day for railroad workers, is ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| 1918 | Congress authorizes Daylight Savings Time. | |
| 1920 | The U.S. Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty for the second time. | |
| 1924 | U.S. troops are rushed to Tegucigalpa as rebel forces take the Honduran capital. | |
| 1931 | The state of Nevada legalizes gambling. | |
| 1935 | The British fire on 20,000 Muslims in India, killing 23. | |
| 1936 | The Soviet Union signs a pact of assistance with Mongolia against Japan. | |
| 1944 | The German 352nd Infantry Division deploys along the coast of France. | |
| 1945 | Adolf Hitler orders a scorched-earth policy for his retreating German armies in the west and east. | |
| 1947 | Chiang Kai-Shek’s government forces take control of Yenan, the former headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| 1949 | The Soviet People’s Council signs the constitution of the German Democratic Republic, and declares that the North Atlantic Treaty is merely a war weapon. | |
| 1963 | In Costa Rica, President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledge to fight Communism. | |
| 1977 | Congo President Marien Ngouabi is killed by a suicide commando. | |
| 1981 | One technician is killed and two others are injured during a routine test on space shuttle Columbia. | |
| Born on March 19 | ||
| 1589 | William Bradford, governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years. | |
| 1721 | Tobias George Smollett, satirical author and physician (Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker). | |
| 1813 | David Livingston, explorer found by Arthur Stanley in Africa. | |
| 1821 | Sir Richard Burton, English explorer. | |
| 1848 | Wyatt Earp, U.S. marshal. | |
| 1849 | Alfred von Tirpitz, Prussian admiral who commanded the German fleet in early World War I. | |
| 1860 | William Jennings Bryan, orator, statesman, known as “The Great Communicator.” | |
| 1889 | Sarah Gertrude Millina, South African writer (The Dark River, God’s Stepchildren). | |
| 1891 | Earl Warren, governor of California, later 14th Supreme Court Chief Justice. | |
| 1904 | John J. Sirica, U.S. Federal Judge who ruled on Watergate issues. | |
| 1906 | Adolf Eichman, Nazi Gestapo officer. | |
| 1912 | Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe pilot. | |
| 1925 | Brent Scrowcroft, Lt. Gen. (USAF), National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush. | |
| 1933 | Phillip Roth, American novelist and short-story writer (Portnoy’s Complaint). | |
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