Page 10: Historical Events In March - 01

1959  On this day in history archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years   

1959  On this day in history beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament   

1961  President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps on March - 01.   

1961  The Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy on March - 01.   

1961  On March - 01 seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide   

1962  American Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 on March - 01.   

1962  K-Mart opens on this day in history.   

1962  Uganda became a self-governing country on March - 01.   

1962  US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada on this day in history.   

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

1963  200,000 French mine workers strike on March - 01.   

1964  Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct   

1965  Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) on March - 01.   

1965  Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1966  On March - 01 ba'ath-party takes power in Syria   

1966  First ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3 on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London   

1968  Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married on this day in history.   

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

1968  Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

1968  Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1968  Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed on March - 01.   

1968  On March - 01 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

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

1968  On this day in history hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

1969  On this day in history after 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts   

1969  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball on March - 01.   

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

1970  End of US commercial whale hunting on March - 01.   

1970  Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election on this day in history.   

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0040  On this day in history birth of martial, Latin poet (d. 102)   

1432  Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455) was born on this day in history.   

1456  Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516) was born on this day in history.   

1494  Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter was born on March - 01.   

1528  Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria was born on March - 01.   

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

1597  On March - 01 birth of jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)   

1607  On this day in history birth of giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer   

0589  On March - 01 death of saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)   

0965  On this day in history leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies   

0986  On March - 01 death of king Lothair of France (b. 941)   

1131  On this day in history stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies   

1233  Death of Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59