Page 10: Historical Events In March - 01

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

1959  On this day in history beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament   

1961  On March - 01 president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps   

1961  On March - 01 the Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy.   

1961  On March - 01 seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide   

1962  On this day in history american Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95   

1962  On this day in history k-Mart opens   

1962  Uganda became a self-governing country on March - 01.   

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 March - 01.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1966  On March - 01 venera 3 becomes first man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)   

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

1967  House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) on March - 01.   

1967  Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London on March - 01.   

1968  On this day in history country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

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

1968  On March - 01 pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

1968  On March - 01 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

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

1968  On March - 01 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

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

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  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball on March - 01.   

1970  On this day in history charles Manson's album "Lie" is released   

1970  On this day in history end of US commercial whale hunting   

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

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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 this day in history.   

1494  Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter was born on this day in history.   

1528  Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria was born on March - 01.   

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

1597  On this day in history birth of jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)   

1607  Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 March - 01 death of king Lothair of France (b. 941)   

1131  Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies on March - 01.   

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

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

1383  On this day in history amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49   

1510  On March - 01 francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59