On This Very Day
March 19th
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- 1644
200 in Peking imperial family commit suicide for loyalty to Emperor.
- 1775
4 buried by avalanche for 37 days in Italy, 3 survive. View Post →
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- 1863
SS Georgiana destroyed on maiden voyage, wreck found 102 years later.
- 1866
Ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die.
- 1918
US adopts Standard Time Act, establishing time zones and DST.
- 1931
Nevada legalizes gambling.
- 1954
First rocket-driven sled tested in Alamogordo, NM.
- 1984
Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons in Columbia River.
- 2018
World's last male northern white rhino dies in Kenya.
- 1962
Bob Dylan releases his first album, becoming an influential music artist.
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