Historical Events In March - 01

1959  On this day in history archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years  

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

1961  On this day in history president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps  

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

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 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  On this day in history uS/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada  

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

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

1964  On March - 01 sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54  

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 this day in history.  

1966  On March - 01 ba'ath-party takes power in Syria  

1966  On March - 01 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  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 March - 01.  

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  NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on March - 01.  

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 March - 01.  

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on March - 01.  

1968  G v d Vring, writer, dies on this day in history.  

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

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  Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released on March - 01.  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

1597  On March - 01 birth of jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)  

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 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  On March - 01 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 this day in history.  

1383  Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

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