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
- 1279 –A Mongolian victory Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
- 1687 –Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- 1853 –The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
- 1861 –The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
- 1863 –The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
- 1885 –Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
- 1946 –French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
- 1954 –Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
- 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.
- 1958 –The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
- 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.
- 1987 –Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
- 1990 –The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
- 2002 –Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
- 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.
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