1883 – Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes
1911 – 1st International Women’s Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women’s right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened
1938 – Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1969 – British invade Anguilla
1975 – Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1985 – US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX “Peacekeeper” intercontinental ballistic missile
1987 – Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago
1989 – Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva and S Grinkov (USSR)
2011 – Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin, England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 18th March 2019
1781 – Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
1793 – Second Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1892 – Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1903 – Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders
1915 – French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1953 – Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1996 – 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT’s Swimathon ’96
1997 – Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
2003 – FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
2014 – US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington and expels all Syrian diplomats
Historical Events for 17th March 2019
455 – Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1860 – Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1886 – Carrollton Massacre (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
1912 – Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 – Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino
1921 – Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain’s 1st birth control clinic in London
1931 – Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1989 – “Chu Chem” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1994 – “Little More Magic” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
2013 – 54th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Florida, 66-63
Historical Events for 16th March 2019
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who is evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy (US Civil War)
1920 – 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1961 – 18th Golden Globes: “Spartacus”, Burt Lancaster, and Greer Garson win
1969 – Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 – 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1975 – “Lieutenant” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1992 – Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1995 – Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1997 – NJ Devils’ Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
Historical Events for 15th March 2019
493 – Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1945 – Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1950 – Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Consul” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1981 – “Broadway Follies” opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1987 – NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney’s last Test Cricket
1997 – Pitts Penguins’ Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
2008 – Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
Historical Events for 14th March 2019
1858 – Ellen G. White receives a vision while attending a funeral service in Lovett’s Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio
1864 – Gioacchino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” premieres in Paris
1875 – Smetana’s “Vysehrad” premieres
1941 – Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1954 – NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1958 – Recording Industry Association of American created
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1995 – 1st time 13 people in space
2018 – Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio, prompting mass protests
Historical Events for 13th March 2019
1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “Pink Lady” premieres in NYC
1920 – After the German government is forced to cut its army to 10,000 men, military groups plot an unsuccessful coup – a revolt ended by a general strike
1960 – Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1967 – Robert Anderson’s “You Know I Can’t Hear You …” premieres in NYC
1969 – Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1984 – WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 – Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
1987 – Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1995 – Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
2013 – The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
Historical Events for 12th March 2019
1900 – President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1917 – Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg)
1940 – Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the “Winter War”
1945 – NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1959 – Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1962 – Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1972 – NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1973 – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
1996 – Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
2000 – 41st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
Historical Events for 11th March 2019
1812 – Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1851 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1917 – 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1954 – US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1963 – US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1968 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
1974 – Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1990 – 31st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2014 – Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
Historical Events for 10th March 2019
1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1629 – King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalls it 11 years later
1791 – John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
1959 – Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth” premieres in NYC
1975 – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 – Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1991 – 32nd SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
2002 – 49th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
2007 – 21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri, Jennifer Hudson win
2017 – South Korean judges uphold parliaments’ decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye