Page 10: 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 this day in history president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps   

1961  On March - 01 the Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy.   

1961  Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide on March - 01.   

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

1962  K-Mart opens on this day in history.   

1962  On March - 01 uganda became a self-governing country   

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

1962  On March - 01 roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70   

1963  On March - 01 200,000 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  On this day in history gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)   

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

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria on this day in history.   

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

1966  Venera 3 becomes first man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain   

1967  On March - 01 house of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)   

1967  Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London on this day in history.   

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

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

1968  On March - 01 pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

1968  On this day in history political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

1968  On March - 01 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on this day in history.   

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

1968  On March - 01 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

1969  After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts on this day in history.   

1969  On March - 01 new York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball   

1970  On this day in history charles Manson's album "Lie" is released   

1970  On March - 01 end of US commercial whale hunting   

1970  On March - 01 kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election   

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0040  Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) was born on March - 01.   

1432  On March - 01 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  On this day in history birth of il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter   

1528  Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria was born on this day in history.   

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  Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 March - 01.   

0986  Death of King Lothair of France (b. 941) on this day in history.   

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

1233  On this day in history death of count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)   

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

1383  On this day in history amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49   

1510  On March - 01 francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59