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  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  Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide on this day in history.   

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

1962  On this day in history k-Mart opens   

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

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

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

1965  Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct on March - 01.   

1965  On this day in history gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)   

1965  Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77 on March - 01.   

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

1967  On this day in history 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  On this day in history country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

1968  NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

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

1968  On this day in history g v d Vring, writer, dies   

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

1969  On this day in history 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  Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released on March - 01.   

1970  On March - 01 end of US commercial whale hunting   

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

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0040  Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) was born on this day in history.   

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

1456  Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516) was born on March - 01.   

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 March - 01.   

0589  Death of Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500) on this day in history.   

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  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  On March - 01 amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49   

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