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March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). There are 287 days remaining.

Events

up to 19th century

1279 - Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

1687 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.

1831 - The City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).

1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.

1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.

20th century

1910s-1930s

1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.

1916 - First United States air combat mission in history as eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919).

1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.

1940s-1970s

1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is established in Chicago, Illinois.

1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.

1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.

1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.

1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A cease fire takes effect.

1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.

1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

1980s

1981 - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

1982 - Falklands War: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.

1987 - Following a scandal involving Jessica Hahn, televangelist Jim Bakker resigns from the PTL.

21st century

2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.

2003 - The invasion of Iraq begins (with the time difference, it actually begins on March 20 at 0100 UTC)

2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster - A long-distance lorry and a bus crashed head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people were killed and 13 injured.

2004 - The Swedish DC-3, shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s, is finally rescued after years of recovery work. The remains of the crew were left in place, pending further investigations.

2004 - Taiwanese president Chen Shui-ban was shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. See 3-19 Shooting Incident.