Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1947  In this year, Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she claims Olympic Gold   

1947  Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45   

1948  Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed   

1948  1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)   

1949  Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76   

1950  Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78   

1951  Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66.   

1953  An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches.   

1953  1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)   

1954  US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics   

1955  Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

1956  In this year, Louise Suggs claims LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.   

1956  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83   

1957  Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68.   

1958  Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"   

1959  The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its inaugural flight   

1959  The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park   

1959  "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.   

1959  Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76   

1960  Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76   

1962  Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79.   

1963  Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain.   

1963  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies   

1965  Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto.   

1965  Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music"   

1965  James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

1966  Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out.   

1967  In this year, Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne).   

1967  The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France.   

1967  U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops engage in one of the heaviest battles of Operation Junction City. The fierce fighting resulted in 210 reported North Vietnamese casualties.   

1967  Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85   

1968  In this year, Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting.   

1968  Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet.   

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1544  Torquato tasso: Italy, renaissance poet (aminta, apologia)   

1549  Hendrik l spieghel: Dutch merchant/writer   

1549  Henric spieghel: Dutch renaissance poet (hertspiegel)   

1596  Isaac elsevier: Book publisher   

1654  Heinrich georg neuss: Composer   

1683  Giovanni veneziano: Composer   

1725  Henry benedict stuart: Pretender to the throne of great britain   

1731  Robert treat paine: Judge, signer (declaration of independence)   

0222  Death of Varius a bassianus: Syrian emperor of rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

0638  Death of Sophronius of jerusalem: Saint/patriarch of jerusalem,   

0859  Death of Eulogius of cordoba: Spanish bishop and christian martyr   

1198  Death of Marie de champagne: Daughter of louis vii of france (b. 1145)   

1486  Death of Albrecht iii achilles: Elector of brandenburg,   

1514  Death of Donato bramante: Italian architect (b. 1444)   

1575  Matthias flacius: Croatian protestant reformer (b. 1520)   

1602  Death of Emilio de' cavalieri: Italian composer