19 March
Notable Births
Nico Collins
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Caylee Cowan
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Julian Love
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Sakura Miyawaki
b. 1998
Japanese singer and actress (born 1998)
Yung Gravy
b. 1996
American rapper (born 1996)
Barbara Haas
b. 1996
Austrian tennis player
Quenton Nelson
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Héctor Bellerín
b. 1995
Spanish footballer (born 1995)
Julia Montes
b. 1995
Filipino actress (born 1995)
Hakim Ziyech
b. 1993
Moroccan footballer (born 1993)
Garrett Clayton
b. 1991
American actor and singer
Aleksandr Kokorin
b. 1991
Russian footballer (born 1991)
EJ Manuel
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Anders Nilsson (ice hockey)
b. 1990
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1990)
Clayton Kershaw
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
AJ Lee
b. 1987
American professional wrestler and author
Michal Švec
b. 1987
Czech footballer
Miloš Teodosić
b. 1987
Serbian basketball player (born 1987)
Adolf Eichmann
b. 1906
German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962)
Earl Warren
b. 1891
Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969
Notable Deaths
Chuck Norris
d. 2026
American martial artist and actor (1940–2026)
Glynn Lunney
d. 2021
NASA engineer (1936–2021)
Roger Agnelli
d. 2016
Jack Mansell
d. 2016
English football player and manager (1927–2016)
Gus Douglass
d. 2015
American politician (1927–2015)
Safet Plakalo
d. 2015
Bosnian writer (1950–2015)
Danny Schechter
d. 2015
American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic
Patrick Joseph McGovern
d. 2014
Billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
Fred Phelps
d. 2014
American pastor and activist (1929–2014)
Robert S. Strauss
d. 2014
American diplomat (1918–2014)
Lawrence Walsh
d. 2014
American judge (1912–2014)
Joseph F. Weis Jr.
d. 2014
American judge
Jim Case
d. 2012
American film producer
Hugo Munthe-Kaas
d. 2012
Maria Bergson
d. 2009
American interior designer, industrial designer, and architect
Arthur C. Clarke
d. 2008
British science fiction writer (1917–2008)
Hugo Claus
d. 2008
Belgian author (1929–2008)
Paul Scofield
d. 2008
English actor (1922–2008)
John DeLorean
d. 2005
American automobile engineer and executive (1925–2005)
Mitchell Sharp
d. 2004
Canadian politician (1911–2004)
On This Day in History
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2023
The Swiss Government brokers a deal for UBS to buy out rival Credit Suisse in an attempt to calm the 2023 banking crisis.
Federal Council (Switzerland)
2019
The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.
President of Kazakhstan
2016
Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
Flydubai Flight 981
2016
An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
March 2016 Istanbul bombing
2013
A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
19 March 2013 Iraq attacks
2011
Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
Libyan civil war (2011)
2008
GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
GRB 080319B
2004
Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
Catalina affair
2004
March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
March 19 shooting incident
2004
The Konginkangas bus disaster kills 23 and injures 14 people in Äänekoski, Finland.
Konginkangas bus disaster
2003
United States President George W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing the invasion of Iraq.
President of the United States
1998
An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
Ariana Afghan Airlines
1990
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș
1989
The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
Egypt
1982
Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
Falklands War
1979
The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
United States House of Representatives
1969
The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
Emley Moor transmitting station
1965
The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
SS Georgiana
1964
Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
March of the Family with God for Liberty
1962
The Algerian War of Independence ends.
Algerian War