Page 5: Historical Events In March - 28

1920  Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford.   

1920  Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia.   

1921  Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor is born   

1922  The inaugural microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA?.   

1922  1st microfilm device introduced   

1924  WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions.   

1927  Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC.   

1927  Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57   

1928  Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63.   

1929  Democratic constitution comes into force in Ecuador.   

1930  Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara.   

1930  1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)   

1933  German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler.   

1935  Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket.   

1939  Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down   

1940  Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.   

1941  Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.   

1942  British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire   

1942  -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck   

1942  Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67   

1943  Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69   

1944  6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40.   

1944  Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis.   

1945  Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

1945  The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London.   

1945  Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

1946  In this year, Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.   

1947  Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57.   

1948  2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win   

1948  2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win   

1949  Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59.   

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1468  Charles i: Duke of savoy   

1472  Fra bartolomeo: Monk, florentine renaissance painter   

1472  Fra bartolommeo: Italian artist   

1483  Raphael: Urbino italy, painter (school of athens)   

1515  Theresa of avila/teresa de jesus: Spanish mystic writer/saint   

1522  Albert the warlike: Prince of bayreuth   

1569  Ranuccio i farnese: Duke of parma   

1592  Jan amos komensky: [comenius] moravian educational reb03281603 stephan otto, composer   

0193  Death of Publius helvius pertinax: Roman emperor (192-93), assassinated   

0593  Guntram: French king in burgundy,   

1072  Death of Ordulf: Duke of saxony   

1134  Death of Stefanus harding: 3rd abbott of côteaux/saint,   

1239  Emperor go-toba of japan: Emperor go-toba of japan (b. 1180)   

1285  Death of Martinus iv: [simon de brion], pope (1281-85),   

1563  Heinrich glarean: Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)   

1566  Siegmund freiherr von herberstein: Austrian diplomat,