Page 10: Historical Events In March - 01

1959  On this day in history archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years   

1959  Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history president Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps   

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

1961  Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide on March - 01.   

1962  American Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 on this day in history.   

1962  K-Mart opens on this day in history.   

1962  Uganda became a self-governing country on March - 01.   

1962  On this day in history uS/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada   

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

1963  200,000 French mine workers strike on March - 01.   

1964  Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1965  On March - 01 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 March - 01 boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77   

1966  On this day in history ba'ath-party takes power in Syria   

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

1966  Venera 3 becomes first man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) on March - 01.   

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  Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London on this day in history.   

1968  On March - 01 country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

1968  On March - 01 nBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!!   

1968  Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

1968  On March - 01 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

1968  Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed on this day in history.   

1968  Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on this day in history.   

1968  G v d Vring, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1968  On March - 01 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

1969  After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts on this day in history.   

1969  New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball on this day in history.   

1970  On March - 01 charles Manson's album "Lie" is released   

1970  End of US commercial whale hunting on March - 01.   

1970  On this day in history 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  On March - 01 birth of wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)   

1494  On this day in history birth of il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter   

1528  On March - 01 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  On this day in history birth of jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)   

1607  Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer was born on March - 01.   

0589  On this day in history death of saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)   

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

0986  Death of King Lothair of France (b. 941) on March - 01.   

1131  On this day in history stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies   

1233  On this day in history death of count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)   

1244  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200) on this day in history.   

1383  On March - 01 amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49   

1510  Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 on this day in history.