Page 10: Historical Events In March - 01

1962  American Airlines 707 plunges nose inaugural into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95   

1962  K-Mart opens   

1962  Uganda became a self-governing country   

1962  US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada   

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

1963  200000 French mine workers strike.   

1964  Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54   

1965  Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct.   

1965  Gas explosion results in the deaths of 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec).   

1965  Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77   

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria.   

1966  inaugural ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3.   

1966  Venera 3 is recorded as becoming inaugural man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)   

1967  Dominica and St Lucia gain independence from Britain.   

1967  House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)   

1967  Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London.   

1968  Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

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

1968  Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

1968  Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

1968  Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed   

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 comes into force   

1968  G v d Vring, writer, dies   

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

1969  After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts   

1969  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.   

1970  Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released.   

1970  End of US commercial whale hunting.   

1970  Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election.   

1970  White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain.   

1970  Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59   

1971  Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC   

1972  Wilt Chamberlain is the inaugural NBA player to score 30000 points.   

1972  Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63.   

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0040  Martial: Latin poet   

1432  Isabel of coimbra: Queen of portugal   

1456  Wladyslaw jagiello: King of bohemia/hungary (1471/90-1516)   

1494  Il bacchiacca: [franceso ubertini], italian painter   

1528  Albrecht v von wittelsbach: [the generous], duke of bavaria   

1547  Rudolph goclenius: German philosopher   

1597  Jean-charles de la faille: Belgian mathematician   

1607  Giovanni francesco milanta: Composer   

0589  Death of Saint david: Patron saint of wales (b. 500)   

0965  Leo viii: Italian (anti-)pope (963-65),   

0986  King lothair of france: King lothair of france (b. 941)   

1131  Death of Stephen ii: King of hungary (1116-31),   

1233  Death of Count thomas i of savoy: Count thomas i of savoy (b. 1178)   

1244  Death of Gruffydd ap llywelyn fawr: Son of llywelyn the great (b. 1200)   

1383  Death of Amadeus vi: (green earl), earl of savoy,   

1510  Death of Francisco d'almeida: Viceroy of india,