დიოგენე 2020

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 19 March.

1. Boston - Mass incorporated
2. Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
3. LA Railway established
4. US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for RR
5. Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
6. US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
7. Amos & Andy debuts on radio
8. Nevada legalized gambling
9. FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
10. 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
11. 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy - Oak Ridge - Tn
12. Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny published
13. Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
14. 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested - Alamogordo - NM
15. Anne Klien dies at 50
16. Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret
17. House of Reps begin day-to-day TV broadcasts
18. 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
19. Kate & Allie premiers
20. PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns

These famous people were born on 19 March.

1. 1589 - William Bradford, gov of Plymouth Colony (baptized)
2. 1813 - David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa
3. 1821 - Sir Richard Burton, explorer, translator (The Arabian Nights)
4. 1851 - Roque S enz Pe¤a, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
5. 1860 - William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner', orator-statesman
6. 1891 - Earl Warren, Supreme Court chief justice
7. 1904 - John J Sirica, Watergate Judge
8. 1914 - Patricia Morison, (Peyton Place)
9. 1916 - Irving Wallace, Author (People's Almanac)
10. 1928 - Patrick McGoohan, Actor (Secret Agent, Prisoner)
11. 1933 - Philip Roth, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
12. 1935 - Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ
13. 1938 - Ursula Andress, Actress (She), Switzerland
14. 1944 - Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
15. 1947 - Glenn Close, Greenwich Conn
16. 1955 - Bruce Willis, (Moonlighting)