Page 10: 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 this day in history.   

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

1961  On March - 01 seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide   

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

1962  K-Mart opens on this day in history.   

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

1962  On March - 01 uS/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada   

1962  Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1963  200,000 French mine workers strike on this day in history.   

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  Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) on March - 01.   

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

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria on this day in history.   

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

1966  On this day in history 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  Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married on this day in history.   

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

1968  On this day in history pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

1968  On this day in history political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

1968  On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

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

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

1968  On March - 01 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

1969  After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts on March - 01.   

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

1970  On March - 01 kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election   

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0040  On this day in history birth of martial, Latin poet (d. 102)   

1432  Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455) was born on March - 01.   

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  On this day in history birth of albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria   

1547  On March - 01 birth of rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)   

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

1607  On March - 01 birth of giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer   

0589  On this day in history 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.