Historical Events In March - 01

1959  On March - 01 archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years  

1959  Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament on March - 01.  

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

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

1961  On March - 01 seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide  

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 this day in history 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  

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

1964  On this day in history sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54  

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

1965  Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) on this day in history.  

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

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria on March - 01.  

1966  First ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3 on this day in history.  

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

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

1967  On March - 01 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  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  On March - 01 pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting  

1968  Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on March - 01.  

1968  Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed on this day in history.  

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

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

1969  On this day in history 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  Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election on March - 01.  

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

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 March - 01 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  Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628) was born on this day in history.  

1597  Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652) was born on March - 01.  

1607  On this day in history birth of giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer  

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

0965  On this day in history leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies  

0986  Death of King Lothair of France (b. 941) on March - 01.  

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 this day in history.