About March 19
March 19, 2025 is the 78th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 335 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
It’s uncommon for the March equinox to fall on this day. The last time it did was in 1796 and the next will be in 2044.
What Happened On March 19
- 1687 –Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- 1861 –The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
- 1885 –Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
- 1915 –Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
- 1920 –The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
- 1921 –Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- 1931 –Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
- 1932 –The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1943 –Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
- 1944 –World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
- 1945 –World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
- 1946 –French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
- 1954 –Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
- 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 then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
- 1966 –Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
- 1987 –Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
- 2003 –United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.
- 2004 –3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country’s presidential election on March 20.
- 2004 –Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
- 2008 –GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
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