Page 9: Historical Events In March - 15
Thursday, 19 March 2026
1987 13th People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby. 

1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket 

1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay. 

1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82. 

1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby 

1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed inaugural African American archbishop. 

1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK. 

1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed. 

1989 "Les Miserables", opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto 

1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position. 

1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil. 

1990 Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70 

1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King 

1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¼' 

1991 Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil 

1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84 

1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural leads to 

1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61 

1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win 

1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68. 

1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win 

1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26 

1996 Tasmanian Premier Ray Groom steps down after accepting responsibility for Liberals losing majority in recent election. 

1996 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42. 

1997 Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72. 

1998 "Cabaret", opens at Club Expo Theater NYC 

1998 Pacific Bell Internet Services announced that a flood of junk e-mail had overwhelmed its message servers on this day in 1998. 

1999 Pluto again is recorded as becoming outermost planet mar171916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the inaugural Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the inaugural combat air mission in U.S. history. 

2001 AUSTRALIA'S dollar plunged to a historic low of US49.84c last night 

2006 mar 26 - The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne, Australia 

2011 Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest. 

2013 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa. 

2017 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia. 

2017 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom 

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »
Hisdates•Com
Home