Historical Events In March - 01

1959  Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years on this day in history.  

1959  On March - 01 beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament  

1961  On March - 01 president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps  

1961  The Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy on March - 01.  

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  On this day in history k-Mart opens  

1962  On this day in history uganda became a self-governing country  

1962  US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada on March - 01.  

1962  Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70 on March - 01.  

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

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 March - 01.  

1965  On March - 01 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 this day in history first ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3  

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

1967  On March - 01 dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain  

1967  On March - 01 house of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)  

1967  On March - 01 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 March - 01 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  Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on March - 01.  

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

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

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  On March - 01 end of US commercial whale hunting  

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

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0040  Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) was born on March - 01.  

1432  On March - 01 birth of isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)  

1456  On March - 01 birth of wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)  

1494  On March - 01 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  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  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  Death of King Lothair of France (b. 941) on March - 01.  

1131  On March - 01 stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies  

1233  On March - 01 death of count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)  

1244  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200) on March - 01.  

1383  Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 on March - 01.  

1510  On this day in history francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59