What Happened in March 2019

September 27, 2024

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 123

Sports History

Mar 2 37-year-old Swiss 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer beats Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Championships

Mar 2 Australian wonder horse Winx sets world record for Group 1 wins in the Chipping Norton Stakes in Sydney; stretches unbeaten run to 31 races, and her 23rd in the highest class of thoroughbred racing
Mar 2 FESPACO, Africa's largest film festival in its 50th year awards the Golden Stallion of Yennenga to "The Mercy of the Jungle" by Joel Karekezi, in Burkina Faso

Event of Interest

Mar 3 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika confirms he will run for president one last time, his 5th term, amid widespread demonstrations

Mar 3 Multiple tornadoes tear through Georgia and Alabama killing at least 23
Mar 3 South African music star Mampintsha shown hitting girlfriend Babes Wodumo on Instagram Live and later arrested for assault

Event of Interest

Mar 3 SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run

Event of Interest

Mar 4 Canadian minister Jane Philpott resigns in protest at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's and the government's handling of a scandal involving bribes from engineering firm SNC-Lavalin

Mar 4 Return of a lock of hair of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II to Ethiopia announced by the National Army Museum in London
Mar 5 Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made - the La Voiture Noire costing €16.7 million (almost $19 million), only one will be made
Mar 5 Japanese architect Arata Isozaki wins architecture's Pritzker Prize [1]

Film & TV History

Mar 5 Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest-ever billionaire at 21, according to Forbes

Mar 5 Major study into the MMR vaccine involving over 650,000 children in Denmark finds it does not increase the risk of autism
Mar 5 Second-ever person "cured" of HIV after stem cell transplant treatment in London, England results published in "Nature"

Event of Interest

Mar 6 Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to turn the social media platform into a more "privacy-focused platform"

Sports History

Mar 6 LeBron James scores his 32,293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers' 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list

Mar 6 US trade deficit rises to 10-year high of $621 billion
Mar 7 Chinese telecommunications company Huawei sues the US government over a federal ban on its products
Mar 7 Power and communications blackout begins in Venezuela

Mar 7 Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolves opposition party Thai Raksa Chart, after it nominated the King's sister as candidate for Prime Minister
Mar 8 US national women's soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation
Mar 10 Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes just after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board
Mar 10 Taliban force attacks Afghan army base killing or capturing about 50 soldiers in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
Mar 11 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) changes his mind saying he will not seek a fifth term and postpones elections after mass protests

Event of Interest

Mar 11 Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, refutes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it.”

College Admission Scandal

Mar 12 Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman

Mar 12 K-pop and Big Bang singer Seungri is arrested for procuring prostitutes, retires to fight the charges in South Korea
Mar 12 More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid battle for last ISIS stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, according to Syrian Democratic Forces officials

Second Brexit Defeat for May

Mar 12 Theresa May's British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242

Mar 13 Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual abuse in Australia; conviction overturned in 2020
Mar 13 Australian cricketers beat India by 35 runs in Delhi to win ODI series, 3-2; first Australian team to recover from 0-2 in a 5-match series; Usman Khawaja 100, Adam Zampa 3/46
Mar 13 British MPs vote to reject a no-deal Brexit, defeating Theresa May's government 321 votes to 278

Event of Interest

Mar 13 California Governor Gavin Newsom announces an indefinite moratorium on the death sentence in the state, saying it discriminates against marginalized communities

Music History

Mar 13 Cuban-American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan and songwriter-musician Emilio Estefan receive Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Event of Interest

Mar 13 Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump

Mar 13 Member of the New York Gambino mob family Frank Cali shot dead outside his home, first killing of a high-ranking mobster since 1985
Mar 13 President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months
Mar 13 Shooting at school in Suzano, near São Paulo, Brazil, kills six including five children, before former student gunmen turn guns on themselves
Mar 13 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia
Mar 14 California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)
Mar 14 Former US Democratic representative Beto O'Rourke announces he is running for president
Mar 14 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
Mar 14 Tropical Cyclone Idai comes ashore in Mozambique, killing at least 417 people, and Malawi killing at least 56, after causing widespread flooding
Mar 14 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration

Global Climate Strike for Future

Mar 15 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg

Mar 15 Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mar 15 The Vessel, a honeycomb viewing structure designed by Thomas Heatherwick opens at Hudson Yards development, New York City
Mar 16 Beached dead whale found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, in Mabini, Philippines

Mar 17 Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack, although only 1.2 million blocked at upload
Mar 17 Flash flooding and a landslides kills at least 73 and injures about 60 in Sentani and Jayapura, Papua, eastern Indonesia

Mar 17 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her presidential bid
Mar 17 Wales beats Ireland, 25-7 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam; Welsh fly-half Gareth Anscombe kicks 6 penalties and a conversion
Mar 17 Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency after Cyclone Idai tears through eastern Zimbabwe killing at least 259
Mar 18 40-year old Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to go 6th with 31,424 points on the NBA scorers' list; Mavs suffer 129-125 OT loss to New Orleans Pelicans
Mar 18 Champion racing pigeon Armando "the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons" sells for a record $1.42 million in Belgium
Mar 18 Italian charity ship Mare Jonio rescues 50 migrants off the coast of Libya
Mar 18 Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi makes national radio address to the nation after Cyclone Idai, saying more than 1,000 people feared dead with 100,000 at risk
Mar 18 Suspected terrorist attack by shooter aboard a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands kills 3 and injures 5
Mar 18 UK Speaker of the House John Bercow rules a third vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal is not possible without new changes
Mar 18 “Historic to catastrophic flooding" faced by Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota according to US National Weather Service
Mar 19 "Superbloom" of poppies in Walker Canyon, southern California visible from space, after high rainfall
Mar 19 American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the 1st woman to win mathematics Abel Prize
Mar 19 Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks
Mar 19 Image of Australian rules footballer Tayla Harris attacked by internet trolls and controversially removed before being reinstated

Event of Interest

Mar 19 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announces his resignation after nearly 30 years in office, the last soviet-era head of state

Mar 19 Singer Sam Smith comes out as non-binary in interview on Jameela Jamil’s Instagram show
Mar 20 A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England
Mar 20 Finland is the world's happiest country, South Sudan is world's least happy, according to annual World Happiness Report
Mar 20 Four men arrested in South Korea for secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests and selling the footage via a website
Mar 20 Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state's flooding "the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state's history"

Disney Acquires 21st Century Fox

Mar 20 The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion

Mar 21 A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
Mar 21 Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child

Film & TV History

Mar 21 Emilia Clarke reveals she suffered two brain aneurysms while filming "Games of Thrones" in an article for "The New Yorker"

Event of Interest

Mar 21 Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is arrested in São Paulo as part of a large corruption investigation

Mar 21 Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declares a state of emergency as flooding from Nebraska and Iowa flows downstream into the state

Sports History

Mar 21 Japanese baseball right fielder Ichiro Suzuki finishes his career with a record 4,367 base hits (NPB & MLB) as Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland A's, 5-4 in Tokyo, Japan

Event of Interest

Mar 21 Levi Strauss & Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York Stock Exchange

Event of Interest

Mar 21 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack

Mar 21 Overloaded boat sinks in the Tigris river near Mosul, Iraq, drowning nearly 100

Music Concert

Mar 21 Ringo Starr's fourteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Colin Hay, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Warren Ham

Mar 22 "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved
Mar 22 US Special Council Robert S. Mueller submits his findings on the 2016 election (The Mueller Report) to Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and US Attorney William Barr

China's Belt and Road

Mar 23 Italy signs up to China's Belt and Road Initiative with deals signed in Rome between Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Chinese President Xi Jinping

Mar 23 More than 1 million march to demand a new EU referendum in London, England
Mar 23 More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
Mar 23 Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State "caliphate"
Mar 24 2-time American League MVP Mike Trout signs the biggest contract in North American sports history, a $426.5 million, 12-year extension with the Los Angeles Angels
Mar 24 Margo Hayes completes her third 9a+ (5.15a) graded climb, Papichulo at Oliana, Spain, becoming the first woman to complete the '9a+ Trilogy'

Sports History

Mar 24 New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski announces retirement as 3-time Super Bowl winner, tight end postseason record, most receptions (81), receiving yards (1,163) and receiving TDs (12)

Mar 24 US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense"
Mar 25 Apple introduces new TV streaming platform Apple TV+, news service Apple News+ and an Apple credit card at star-studded event featuring Oprah
Mar 25 British Airways flight from London mistakenly flies to Edinburgh, Scotland instead of Düsseldorf, Germany when wrong flight plan submitted
Mar 25 First organ transplant between a live HIV donor and an HIV recipient with a kidney transplant in Boston, Massachusetts
Mar 25 First rocket fired from Gaza since 2014 toward Tel Aviv prompts Israeli return air strikes on Gaza
Mar 25 Further power blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home
Mar 25 NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women

Famous Deaths

Mar 1 Eusebio Pedroza, Panamanian boxer (WBA featherweight champion 1978-85), dies of pancreatic cancer at 62
Mar 1 Kevin Roche, Irish architect (Pritzker Prize - 1982), dies at 96
Mar 1 Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter (This Day Tonight), dies at 76
Mar 1 Zhores Alferov, Soviet/Russian physicist (2000 Nobel Prize in Physics), dies at 88
Mar 3 Bobbi Fiedler, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), dies at 81
Mar 3 Peter Hurford, British organist, composer and choral conductor (St. Albans Cathedral), dies at 88
Mar 4 Juan Corona, Mexican born American serial killer, dies in prison at 85

Mar 4 King Kong Bundy [Christopher Pallies], American pro wrestler (WWF), dies at 61

Mar 5 Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer who created jazz arrangements of Bach and other classical music, dies at 84
Mar 7 Dan Jenkins, American author, sportswriter (Sports Illustrated), dies at 90
Mar 7 Kelly Catlin, American road cyclist (Olympic silver 2016, World C'ship gold 2016-18), dies from suicide at 23
Mar 7 Ralph Hall, American politician, (oldest to serve in the House of Representatives, Texas 1981-2014), dies at 95 [1]
Mar 8 Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor (Frankfurt Opera, 1967-87); Cincinnati Symphony, 1980-86); Southwest German Radio Symphony, 1986-99), and composer, dies at 91
Mar 9 Harry Howell, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman (NY Rangers 1952-69), dies of dementia at 86
Mar 9 Vladimir Etush, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR, dies at 96
Mar 10 Asa Brebner, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Modern Lovers; The Chartbusters), dies at 65
Mar 10 Josef Feistmantl, Austrian luger (Olympic gold men's doubles 1964; World C'ship gold singles 1969), dies at 80
Mar 11 Hal Blaine [Harold Belsky], American pop and rock session drummer (The Wrecking Crew), dies at 90
Mar 11 Willie Ellison, American NFL running back. 1967-74 (Pro Bowl 1971; Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs), dies at 73
Mar 12 Alan Moss, English cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 21 wickets; Middlesex CCC), dies at 88
Mar 13 Harry Hughes, American politician (57th Governor of Maryland, 1979-87; Maryland State Senate, 1959-70), dies at 92
Mar 14 Birch Bayh, American politician and US Senator from Indiana (Democrat: 1963-81) who wrote two amendments to the US constitution (25th and 26th), dies of pneumonia at 91
Mar 14 Charles Whiting, English Formula 1 Race Director (Safety Delegate, Starter, head F1 Technical Dep't), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 66
Mar 14 Jake Phelps, American skateboarder, journalist (editor Thrasher magazine), dies at 56
Mar 15 Alec Coppen, British pioneering psychiatrist (serotonin theory of depression), dies at 96
Mar 15 David White, American singer and songwriter (Danny And The Juniors - "At The Hop": Leslie Gore - "You Don't Own Me"), dies of cancer at 79 [1]
Mar 15 Lam Jones, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1976) and NFL wide receiver (NY Jets 1980-86), dies of myeloma at 60
Mar 15 W. S. Merwin, American poet (17th United States Poet Laureate), dies at 91
Mar 16 Dick Dale [Richard Anthony Mansour], American surf-rock guitarist ("Miserlou"; "Let's Go Trippin'"; "Pipeline"), dies at 81
Mar 16 Richard Erdman, American actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes), dies at 93
Mar 17 Barbara Benary, American composer (Gamelon Son Of Lion), dies at 73
Mar 17 [Zephire] Andre Williams, American R&B musician ("Jailbait"; "Shake a Tail Feather"), dies at 82
Mar 19 Unita Blackwell (née U.Z. Brown), American civil rights activist and politician (1st African American mayor in Mississippi - Mayor of Mayersville, 1976-2001), dies at 86 [1]
Mar 20 Randy Jackson, American MLB baseball third baseman, 1950-59, 2X All-Star (Chicago Cubs; Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodger; Cleveland Indians), dies of pneumonia at 93
Mar 22 Carlo Franci, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 91 [1]
Mar 22 Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA; European Commissioner, 1981-93), dies at 89
Mar 22 Jim Moody, American economist and politician (Rep-D-WI, 1983-93), dies at 83
Mar 22 Scott Walker [Noel Scott Engel], American-born British singer-songwriter and composer (The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)), dies of cancer at 76
Mar 22 Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra), dies at 95
Mar 23 Clem Daniels, American AFL and NFL football halfback, 1960-68 (2 x All-Star, AFL MVP, 1963 - Oakland Raiders; Dallas Texans; San Francisco 49ers), dies at 81
Mar 25 Cal Ramsey, American basketball broadcaster, small forward (NY Knicks), dies of cardiac arrest at 81
Mar 25 Lisle Atkinson, American jazz double-bassist (Nina Simone; Betty Carter; Neo-Bass Ensemble), dies at 78
Mar 26 Heinz Winbeck, German composer, conductor and teacher, dies at 73
Mar 26 Ranking Roger [Roger Charlery], British rock vocalist (The Beat, General Public), dies of cancer at 56
Mar 27 Bruce Yardley, Australian cricket spin bowler and coach (33 Tests, 126 wickets; coach Sri Lanka), dies from cancer at 71
Mar 27 Friedrich Achleitner, Austrian architecture critic (Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert), and poet, dies at 88
Mar 27 Joe Bellino, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1960, Navy), dies of stomach cancer at 81
Mar 27 Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31), dies at 84
Mar 29 Agnès Varda, Belgium-born French director “mother of the French New Wave” (Vagabond), dies at 90
Mar 31 Nipsey Hussle [Ermias Asghedom], American rapper and activist, shot and killed at 33

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