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| + | Typically the [[March equinox]] falls on this date, marking the vernal point in the [[Northern Hemisphere]] and the autumnal point in the [[Southern Hemisphere]], when both day and night are of equal length. | ||
| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | * [[1602]] - The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established. | ||
| - | * [[1616]] - [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] is freed from the [[Tower of London]] after 13 years imprisonment. | ||
| - | * [[1739]] - [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]]. | ||
| - | * [[1760]] - The "[[Great Fire]]" of [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] destroys 349 buildings. | ||
| - | * [[1815]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "[[Hundred Days]]" rule. | ||
| - | * [[1848]] - [[Revolutions of 1848 in the German states]]: [[Monarch|King]] [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] abdicates. | ||
| * [[1852]] - [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is published. | * [[1852]] - [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is published. | ||
| - | * [[1856]] - [[Costa Rica]]n troops rout [[William Walker (soldier)|Walker]]'s soldiers. | ||
| - | * [[1861]] - An earthquake completely destroys [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]], a city in western [[Argentina]]. | ||
| - | * [[1883]] - Signature of [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property]]. | ||
| - | * [[1899]] - At [[Sing Sing Correctional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]]. | ||
| - | * [[1913]] - [[Sung Chiao-jen]], a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party ([[Kuomintang]]), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. | ||
| - | * [[1914]] - In [[New Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skating]] championship takes place. | ||
| - | * [[1916]] - [[Albert Einstein]] publishes his [[Theory of relativity|general theory of relativity]]. | ||
| - | * [[1922]] - The [[USS Langley (CV-1)|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]]. | ||
| - | * [[1933]] - [[Giuseppe Zangara]] is [[execution (legal)|executed]] in [[Florida|Florida's]] [[electric chair]] for fatally shooting [[Anton Cermak]] in an assassination attempt against [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. | ||
| - | * [[1934]] - 1934 Great [[Hakodate]] fire, 4,170 square kilometers has lost, caused fire. [[Japan]]ese authority estimated 2,165 killed, injured 9,485, 145,500 homeless. The great urban fire has worst disaster, except air bomb, earthquake fire in Japanese history. | ||
| - | * [[1942]] - In [[Zgierz]], [[Poland]], 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans. | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[Holocaust]]: in [[Rohatyn]], western [[Ukraine]], [[Germany|German]] [[SS]] murder 3,000 [[Jews]], including 600 children, annihilating 70% of [[Rohatyn]]'s [[Jewish]] [[ghetto]]. | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[World War II]]: [[General]] [[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippines]], in which he says: "I came out of [[Bataan]] and I shall return". | ||
| - | * [[1948]] - With a [[American Federation of Musicians|Musicians Union]] ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the [[United States]], under [[Eugene Ormandy]] and [[Arturo Toscanini]], are given on [[CBS]] and [[NBC]]. | ||
| - | * [[1951]] - [[Fujiyoshida]], a [[city]] located in [[Yamanashi Prefecture]], [[Japan]], in the center of the Japanese main island of [[Honshū]] is founded. | ||
| - | * [[1952]] - The [[United States Senate]] ratifies a [[peace treaty]] with [[Japan]]. | ||
| - | * [[1956]] - [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]]. | ||
| - | * [[1964]] - The [[wiktionary:Precursor|precursor]] of the [[European Space Agency]], [[ESRO]] ([[European Space Research Organization]]) is established per an agreement signed on [[June 14]], [[1962]]. | ||
| * [[1969]] - [[John Lennon]] & [[Yoko Ono]] marry in [[Gibraltar]] | * [[1969]] - [[John Lennon]] & [[Yoko Ono]] marry in [[Gibraltar]] | ||
| - | * [[1974]] - A failed kidnap attempt is made on [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [[The Mall (London)|The Mall]], outside [[Buckingham Palace]], [[London]]. | ||
| - | * [[1980]] - The [[Radio Caroline]] ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. | ||
| - | * [[1985]] - [[Libby Riddles]] becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]]. | ||
| - | * [[1986]] - [[Jacques Chirac]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of [[France]]. | ||
| - | * [[1987]] - The [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves anti-[[AIDS]] drug [[AZT]]. | ||
| - | * [[1988]] - [[Eritrean War of Independence]]: Having defeated the [[Nadew Command]], the [[Eritrean People's Liberation Front]] enters the town of [[Afabet]], victoriously concluding the [[Battle of Afabet]]. | ||
| - | * [[1990]] - [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], goes on trial for [[bribery]], [[embezzlement]], and [[racketeering]]. | ||
| - | * [[1993]] - A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bomb explodes in [[Warrington, Warrington|Warrington]], northwest [[England]], killing two children. | ||
| - | * [[1995]] - A [[sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway]] kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons. | ||
| - | * [[1999]] - [[Legoland California]] opens in [[Carlsbad]], [[California]]. | ||
| - | * [[2000]] - [[Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin]], a former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] once known as [[H. Rap Brown]], is captured after a gun battle that leaves a [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] sheriff's deputy dead. | ||
| * [[2003]] - [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]: In the early hours of the morning, the [[United States]] and three other countries begin military operations in [[Iraq]]. | * [[2003]] - [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]: In the early hours of the morning, the [[United States]] and three other countries begin military operations in [[Iraq]]. | ||
| - | * [[2004]] - [[Stephen Harper]] wins the leadership of the newly created [[Conservative Party of Canada]], thus becoming the first leader in the party's history. | ||
| - | * [[2005]] - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits [[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]], [[Japan]], its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated. | ||
| - | * [[2006]] - [[Cyclone Larry]] makes landfall in [[eastern Australia]], destroying most of the country's banana crop. | ||
| - | * 2006 - Over 150 [[Chadian military|Chadian soldiers]] are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel [[United Front for Democratic Change|UFDC]]. The rebel movement sought to overthrow [[Heads of state of Chad|Chadian president]] [[Idriss Deby]]. | ||
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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| *[[43 BC]] - [[Ovid]], Roman poet (d. [[17]]) | *[[43 BC]] - [[Ovid]], Roman poet (d. [[17]]) | ||
| - | *[[1469]] - Princess [[Cecily of York]] (d. [[1507]]) | ||
| - | *[[1477]] - [[Jerome Emser]], German theologian (d. [[1527]]) | ||
| - | *[[1502]] - [[Pierino Belli]], Italian soldier and jurist (d. [[1575]]) | ||
| - | *[[1725]] - [[Abdul Hamid I]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1789]]) | ||
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Torbern Bergman]], Swedish chemist (d. [[1784]]) | ||
| - | *[[1737]] - [[Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke]], [[King of Thailand]] (d. [[1809]]) | ||
| - | *[[1741]] - [[Jean Antoine Houdon]], French sculptor (d. [[1828]]) | ||
| *[[1770]] - [[Friedrich Hölderlin]], German writer (d. [[1843]]) | *[[1770]] - [[Friedrich Hölderlin]], German writer (d. [[1843]]) | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[Karl August Nicander]], Swedish poet (d. [[1839]]) | ||
| - | *[[1811]] - [[Napoleon II of France]], (d. [[1832]]) | ||
| - | *[[1823]] - [[Ned Buntline]], American publisher (d. [[1886]]) | ||
| *[[1828]] - [[Henrik Ibsen]], Norwegian writer (d. [[1906]]) | *[[1828]] - [[Henrik Ibsen]], Norwegian writer (d. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[1831]] - [[Solomon L. Spink]], U.S. Congressman (d. [[1881]]) | ||
| - | *[[1834]] - [[Charles W. Eliot]], President of Harvard University (d. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | *[[1836]] - [[Ferris Jacobs, Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1886]]) | ||
| - | * 1836 - Sir [[Edward Poynter]], British painter (d. [[1919]]) | ||
| - | *[[1840]] - [[Illarion Pryanishnikov]], Russian painter (d. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | *[[1856]] - Sir [[John Lavery]], Irish artist (d. [[1941]]) | ||
| - | * 1856 - [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], American inventor (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck]], German general (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Borries von Muenchhausen|Börries von Münchhausen]], German poet (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | *[[1876]] - [[William Payne Whitney|Payne Whitney]], American businessman (d. [[1927]]) | ||
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Maud Menten]], Canadian biochemist (d. [[1960]]) | ||
| - | *[[1882]] - [[René Coty]], French President (d.[[1962]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Beniamino Gigli]], Italian tenor (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | * 1890 - [[Lauritz Melchior]], Danish tenor (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| *[[1895]] - [[Fredric Wertham]], German-born psychologist (d. [[1981]]) | *[[1895]] - [[Fredric Wertham]], German-born psychologist (d. [[1981]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Ruby Muhammad]], American matriarch of Black Islam | + | *[[1904]] - [[B. F. Skinner]], American psychologist (d. 1990) |
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Edgar Buchanan]], American actor (d. [[1979]]) | + | *[[1936]] - [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], Jamaican singer and producer (d. 2021) |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[B. F. Skinner]], American psychologist (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Abraham Beame]], American politician (d. [[2001]]) | + | |
| - | * 1906 - [[Ozzie Nelson]], American bandleader and actor (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Michael Redgrave]], English actor (d. [[1985]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1911]] - [[Alfonso García Robles]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1991]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Wendell Corey]], American actor (d. [[1968]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Rudolf Kirchschlager|Rudolf Kirchschläger]], [[President of Austria]] (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | * 1915 - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Soviet pianist (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Pierre Messmer]], French politician and Prime Minister (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Vera Lynn]], English actress and singer | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Jack Barry (television)|Jack Barry]], American TV host (d. [[1984]]) | + | |
| - | * 1918 - [[Marian McPartland]], British jazz pianist | + | |
| - | * 1918 - [[Donald Featherstone]], British writer and wargamer | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Pamela Harriman]], British-American diplomat (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1921]] - [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], American singer (d. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Larry Elgart]], American saxophonist and bandleader | + | |
| - | * 1922 - [[Ray Goulding]], American comedian (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| - | * 1922 - [[Carl Reiner]], American film director | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Shaukat Siddiqui]], Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Jozef Kroner]], Slovak actor (d. [[1998]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[John Ehrlichman]], American political figure (d. [[1999]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1927]] - [[John Joubert (composer)|John Joubert]], South African-born British composer | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Fred Rogers]], American TV host (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Germán Robles]], Spanish actor | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Hal Linden]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1933]] - [[George Altman]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1933 - [[Alexander Gorodnitsky]], Russian geologist and poet | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Willie Lewis Brown, Jr.|Willie Brown]], American politician | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Ted Bessell]], American actor (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], Reggae artist | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Vaughn Meader]], American comedian (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Jerry Reed]], American singer and actor | + | |
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Brian Mulroney]], former [[Prime Minister of Canada]] | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Pat Corrales]], American baseball player | + | |
| *[[1943]] - [[Gerard Malanga]], American poet and photographer | *[[1943]] - [[Gerard Malanga]], American poet and photographer | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[Naima Neidre]], Estonian graphic artist | + | *[[1957]] - [[Spike Lee]], American film director |
| - | * 1943 - [[Paul Junger Witt]], American TV producer | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Henry Bartholomay]], American fighter pilot | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Rick Berman]], American TV and film producer | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Jay Ingram]], Canadian television host and author | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Pat Riley]], American basketball player and coach | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[John Boswell]], American historian (d. [[1994]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[John de Lancie]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1948 - [[Bobby Orr]], Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Marcia Ball]], American singer and pianist | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[William Hurt]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1950 - [[Carl Palmer]], English drummer ([[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Jimmie Vaughan]], American blues guitarist | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Geoff Brabham]], Australian racing driver | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Mike Francesa]], American sports talk show host | + | |
| - | * 1954 - [[Liana Kanelli]], Greek journalist and politician | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Vanessa Bell Calloway]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1957 - [[David Foster (woodchopper)|David Foster]], Australian world champion woodchopper | + | |
| - | * 1957 - [[Spike Lee]], American film director | + | |
| * 1957 - [[Theresa Russell]], American actress | * 1957 - [[Theresa Russell]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Phil Anderson]], Australian cyclist | ||
| - | * 1958 - [[Holly Hunter]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Dave Beasant]], English football goalkeeper | ||
| - | * 1959 - [[Steve McFadden]], British actor | ||
| - | * 1959 - [[Sting (wrestler)|Sting]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Jesper Olsen]], Danish footballer | ||
| - | * 1961 - [[Slim Jim Phantom]], American musician ([[Stray Cats]]) | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Stephen Sommers]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Paul Annacone]], American tennis player | ||
| - | * 1963 - [[Yelena Romanova]], Russian athlete (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| - | * 1963 - [[Manabu Suzuki]], Japanese racing driver and broadcaster | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Natacha Atlas]], Belgian singer | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Alka Yagnik]], Indian singer | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Caroline Brunet]], Quebec kayaker | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Mannie Fresh]], American producer | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Manny Alexander]], Dominican baseball player | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Touré]], American writer | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Alexander Kapranos]], Greek-British musician ([[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]]) | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Jung Woo-sung]], South Korean actor | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Cedric Yarbrough]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Christopher Heinz]], American businessman; son of [[Teresa Heinz]] | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Paula Garces]], Colombian actress | ||
| - | * 1974 - [[Andrzej Pilipiuk]], Polish writer | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Chester Bennington]], American musician ([[Linkin Park]]) | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Bianca Lawson]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Keven Mealamu]], New Zealand rugby player | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Silvia Abascal]], Spanish actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Jamal Crawford]], American basketball player | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Ock Ju-Hyun]], South Korean singer | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Terrence Duffin]], Zimbabwean cricketer | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Tomasz Kuszczak]], Polish footballer | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Nick Wheeler]], American guitarist ([[The All-American Rejects]]) | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[José Moreira]], Portuguese footballer | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Christy Carlson Romano]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Rami Malek]], Egyptian-born actor | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Justine Ezarik]], American Internet personality | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Markus Niemelä]], Finnish racing driver | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Fernando Torres]], Spanish footballer | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Marcus Vick]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Winta]], Norwegian musician | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Patrick Boyle]], Scottish footballer | ||
| - | * 1987 - [[Daniel Maa Boumsong]], Cameroonian football player | ||
| - | * 1987 - [[João Alves de Assis Silva]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| - | * 1987 - [[Rollo Weeks]], English actor | ||
| - | * 1987 - [[Sergei Kostitsyn]], Belarusian hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Tamim Iqbal]], Bangladeshi cricketer | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[687]] - [[Cuthbert of Lindisfarne|St. Cuthbert]], [[patron saint]] of [[Northumbria]] (born c. [[634]]). | ||
| - | *[[1239]] - [[Hermann von Salza]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. [[1179]]) | ||
| - | *[[1413]] - King [[Henry IV of England]] (b. [[1367]]) | ||
| - | *[[1549]] - [[Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley|Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour]], 4th. husband of Queen [[Catherine Parr]] (executed) (b. [[1508]]) | ||
| - | *[[1568]] - Duke [[Albert of Prussia]] (b. [[1490]]) | ||
| - | *[[1586]] - [[Richard Maitland]], Scottish statesman and historian (b. [[1496]]) | ||
| - | *[[1619]] - [[Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1557]]) | ||
| - | *[[1673]] - [[Augustyn Kordecki]], Polish prior (b. [[1603]]) | ||
| - | *[[1730]] - [[Adrienne Lecouvreur]], French actress (b. [[1692]]) | ||
| - | *[[1732]] - [[Johann Ernst Hanxleden]], German philologist (b. [[1681]]) | ||
| *[[1746]] - [[Nicolas de Largillière]], French painter (b. [[1656]]) | *[[1746]] - [[Nicolas de Largillière]], French painter (b. [[1656]]) | ||
| - | *[[1780]] - Sir [[Benjamin Truman]] - English brewer (b. [[1699]]/[[1700]]) | + | *[[1945]] - [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], English writer ("The love that dare not speak its name.") (b. [[1870]]) |
| - | *[[1793]] - [[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield]], Scottish judge and politician (b. [[1705]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1835]] - [[Louis-Leopold Robert]], French painter (b. [[1794]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1855]] - [[Joseph Aspdin]], English mason and inventor (b. [[1788]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Keisuke Yamanami]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1833]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Hans Christian Lumbye]], Danish composer (b. [[1810]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1878]] - [[Julius Robert von Mayer]], German physician and physicist (b. [[1814]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Alexander F. Mozhaiski]], aviation pioneer (b. [[1825]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Apollon Maykov]], Russian poet (b. [[1821]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Franz Ritter von Hauer]], Austrian geologist (b. [[1822]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Ota Benga]], Congolese pygmy (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Lewis A. Grant]], American Civil War General (b. [[1828]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[George Nathaniel Curzon]], British statesman (b. [[1859]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Ferdinand Foch]], French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. [[1851]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Hermann Müller (politician)|Hermann Müller]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1876]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - Queen [[Emma of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1858]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Alfred Ploetz]], German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. [[1860]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Sigurd Wallén]], Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| *[[1964]] - [[Brendan Behan]], Irish playwright and author (b. [[1923]]) | *[[1964]] - [[Brendan Behan]], Irish playwright and author (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Henri Longchambon]], French politician (b. [[1896]]) | + | *[[1968]] - [[Carl Dreyer]], Danish film director. (b. [[1889]]) |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Manolis Chiotis]], Greek [[bouzouki]] virtuoso and song writer (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Marilyn Maxwell]], American actress (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Chet Huntley]], American television journalist (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1891]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Lev Yashin]], Soviet footballer (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1991]] - [[Eric Clapton#Tragedy again|Conor Clapton]], son of [[Eric Clapton]] (b. [[1986]]) | + | |
| *[[1992]] - [[Georges Delerue]], French film composer (b. [[1925]]) | *[[1992]] - [[Georges Delerue]], French film composer (b. [[1925]]) | ||
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Polykarp Kusch]], German-born American physicist, [[Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Lewis Grizzard]], American humorist (b. [[1946]]) | ||
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Big John Studd]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1948]]) | ||
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Tony Zale]], American boxer (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[George Howard (jazz)|George Howard]], American jazz saxophone musician | ||
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Gene Eugene]], Canadian actor and singer (b. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Luis Alvarado]], Puerto Rican baseball player (b. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Sailor Art Thomas]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - Queen [[Juliana of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1909]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[Pierre Sévigny]], French Canadian military officer and politician (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Armand Lohikoski]], Finnish film director (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Gilbert E. Patterson]], presiding bishop of COGIC (born [[1939]]) | ||
| - | * 2007 - [[Taha Yassin Ramadan]], Iraqi politician (b. [[1938]]) | ||
| - | * 2007 - [[Hawa Yakubu]], Ghanaian politician (born [[1948]]) | ||
| - | ==Notes== | ||
| - | Spike Lee | ||
| - | Lee "Scratch" Perry | ||
| - | Carl Dreyer | ||
| - | Henrik Ibsen | ||
| - | Bed-In | ||
| - | Ovid | ||
| - | Gerard Malanga | ||
| - | Winter | ||
| - | Georges Delerue | ||
| - | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| - | Fredric Wertham | ||
| - | 2003 invasion of Iraq | ||
| - | The Chatterley Affair | ||
| - | Nicolas de Largillière | ||
| - | B. F. Skinner | ||
| - | Charles Lasègue | ||
| - | Désiré Nisard | ||
| - | Brendan Behan | ||
| - | Francis Grasso | ||
| - | Edward Lloyd | ||
| - | Maurice Cloche | ||
| - | Lord Alfred Douglas | ||
| - | Theresa Russell | ||
| - | Late Night Tales | ||
| - | Antonin Proust | ||
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Typically the March equinox falls on this date, marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere, when both day and night are of equal length.
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Art and culture
- 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- 1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar
- 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
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Births
- 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
- 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
- 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
- 1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
- 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
- 1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer and producer (d. 2021)
- 1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
- 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
- 1957 - Theresa Russell, American actress
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Deaths
- 1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
- 1945 - Lord Alfred Douglas, English writer ("The love that dare not speak its name.") (b. 1870)
- 1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
- 1968 - Carl Dreyer, Danish film director. (b. 1889)
- 1992 - Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
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