Historical Events In March - 01

1959  Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years on this day in history.   

1959  On March - 01 beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament   

1961  On March - 01 president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps   

1961  On this day in history the Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy.   

1961  On this day in history seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide   

1962  On this day in history american Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95   

1962  On this day in history k-Mart opens   

1962  On this day in history uganda became a self-governing country   

1962  On this day in history uS/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada   

1962  On this day in history roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70   

1963  On this day in history 200,000 French mine workers strike   

1964  Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54 on March - 01.   

1965  On March - 01 australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct   

1965  Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77   

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria on March - 01.   

1966  On March - 01 first ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3   

1966  Venera 3 becomes first man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) on March - 01.   

1967  On March - 01 dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain   

1967  On this day in history house of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)   

1967  On March - 01 queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London   

1968  Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married on March - 01.   

1968  NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on March - 01.   

1968  On this day in history pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

1968  On March - 01 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

1968  Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed on this day in history.   

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on March - 01.   

1968  On March - 01 g v d Vring, writer, dies   

1968  Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on March - 01.   

1969  On March - 01 after 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts   

1969  On this day in history new York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball   

1970  On March - 01 charles Manson's album "Lie" is released   

1970  End of US commercial whale hunting on this day in history.   

1970  Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election on March - 01.   

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0040  On March - 01 birth of martial, Latin poet (d. 102)   

1432  On this day in history birth of isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)   

1456  On this day in history birth of wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)   

1494  Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter was born on this day in history.   

1528  On this day in history birth of albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria   

1547  On March - 01 birth of rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)   

1597  On this day in history birth of jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)   

1607  Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer was born on March - 01.   

0589  On this day in history death of saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)   

0965  Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies on this day in history.   

0986  Death of King Lothair of France (b. 941) on March - 01.   

1131  On March - 01 stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies   

1233  Death of Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178) on March - 01.   

1244  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200) on March - 01.   

1383  Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 on March - 01.   

1510  Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 on March - 01.