Page 10: Historical Events In March - 01

1959  Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years on March - 01.   

1959  On March - 01 beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament   

1961  President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps on March - 01.   

1961  The Peace Corps is established by US President John F. Kennedy on this day in history.   

1961  On March - 01 seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide   

1962  On this day in history american Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95   

1962  On this day in history k-Mart opens   

1962  On this day in history uganda became a self-governing country   

1962  US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada on this day in history.   

1962  Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70 on March - 01.   

1963  On March - 01 200,000 French mine workers strike   

1964  On March - 01 sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54   

1965  On this day in history australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct   

1965  Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) on March - 01.   

1965  On this day in history boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77   

1966  Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria on this day in history.   

1966  First ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3 on March - 01.   

1966  Venera 3 becomes first man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) on this day in history.   

1967  Dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain on March - 01.   

1967  House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London   

1968  On this day in history country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

1968  NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on this day in history.   

1968  Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on March - 01.   

1968  Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1968  On March - 01 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on March - 01.   

1968  On March - 01 g v d Vring, writer, dies   

1968  Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on March - 01.   

1969  After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts on March - 01.   

1969  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball on March - 01.   

1970  Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released on this day in history.   

1970  On this day in history end of US commercial whale hunting   

1970  On March - 01 kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election   

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0040  Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) was born on this day in history.   

1432  Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455) was born on this day in history.   

1456  Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516) was born on March - 01.   

1494  Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter was born on this day in history.   

1528  On this day in history birth of albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria   

1547  Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628) was born on this day in history.   

1597  Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652) was born on March - 01.   

1607  On March - 01 birth of giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer   

0589  Death of Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500) on this day in history.   

0965  Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies on this day in history.   

0986  On this day in history death of king Lothair of France (b. 941)   

1131  On March - 01 stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies   

1233  On March - 01 death of count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)   

1244  On this day in history death of gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)   

1383  Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 on March - 01.   

1510  Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 on March - 01.