Historical Events In March - 01

1959  Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years on March - 01.  

1959  Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament on this day in history.  

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

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

1961  Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide on March - 01.  

1962  On March - 01 american Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95  

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 March - 01.  

1963  On March - 01 200,000 French mine workers strike  

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

1965  Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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 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 this day in history.  

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 March - 01.  

1968  Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married on March - 01.  

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  On March - 01 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands  

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

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

1969  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball on this day in history.  

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

1970  End of US commercial whale hunting on this day in history.  

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

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0040  On March - 01 birth of martial, Latin poet (d. 102)  

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 March - 01 birth of il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter  

1528  On March - 01 birth of albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria  

1547  On this day in history birth of rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)  

1597  Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652) was born on this day in history.  

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  On March - 01 leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies  

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

1131  Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies on this day in history.  

1233  Death of Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178) on March - 01.  

1244  On this day in history death of gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)  

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.