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 March - 01 president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps   

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

1961  Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide on March - 01.   

1962  American Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 on this day in history.   

1962  K-Mart opens on this day in history.   

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

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

1962  On this day in history 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 this day in history australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct   

1965  On March - 01 gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)   

1965  On March - 01 boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77   

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

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

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

1967  Dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain on March - 01.   

1967  House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) on this day in history.   

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

1968  On this day in history country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

1968  On this day in history 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 this day in history vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

1968  G v d Vring, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1968  Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election   

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

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  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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

0965  Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies on March - 01.   

0986  On this day in history death of king Lothair of France (b. 941)   

1131  Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies on March - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

1383  Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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