March 19
1853 - During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).
1860 - William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state and three-time Democratic presidential nominee, was born in Salem, Illinois.
1891 - Earl Warren, the 14th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Los Angeles.
1917 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour workday for railroads.
1918 - Congress approved daylight-saving time.
1920 - The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.
1931 - The Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
1942 - During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered men between the ages of 45 and 64, inclusive, to register for non-military duty.
1945 - During World War II, 724 people were killed when a Japanese dive bomber attacked the carrier USS Franklin off Japan (the ship was saved).
1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree" ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.
1953 - The Academy Awards were televised for the first time.
1962 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was released by Columbia Records.
1979 - The U.S. House of Representatives began televising its floor proceedings; the live feed was carried by C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network), which was making its debut.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex-and-money scandal involving a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn.
1988 - Two British soldiers were shot to death after they were dragged from a car and beaten by mourners attending an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire. (White’s departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court’s second female justice.)
1996 - Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
2001 - California officials declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling blackouts.
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, marking the beginning of the war with Iraq.
2011 - The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Moammar Gadhafi's forces from the air, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising.
2013 - Pope Francis officially began his ministry as the 266th pope, receiving the ring symbolizing the papacy and a wool stole exemplifying his role as shepherd of his 1.2-billion strong flock during a Mass at the Vatican.
2014 - Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the U.S. government, admitting that it had hidden information about defects that caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly, resulting in injuries and deaths.
2020 - President Donald Trump focused attention on a malaria drug, chloroquine, as a possible virus treatment; the FDA issued a statement saying that there were “no FDA-approved therapeutics” to treat COVID-19.
Birthdays
26 - Philip Bolden (actor)
26 - Julia Montes (actress)
30 - Arabella Chi (model)
32 - Craig Lamar Traylor (actor)
33 - Clayton Kershaw (baseball player)
34 - AJ Lee (professional wrestler)
38 - Evan Bourne (professional wrestler)
42 - Abby Brammell (actress)
43 - Virginia Williams (actress)
52 - Connor Trinneer (actor)
58 - Mary Scheer (actress/comedian)
66 - Bruce Willis (actor)
74 - Glenn Close (actress)
75 - Ruth Pointer (singer)
85 - Ursula Andress (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 19
1954 - Viewers saw the first televised prizefight shown in color when Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1955 - San Francisco defeats La Salle 77-63 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1956 - The Minneapolis Lakers beat the St. Louis Hawks 133-75 in Game 2 of the Western Divisional Finals. It was the largest margin of victory in NBA playoff history.
1960 - Ohio State defeats California 75-55 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1966 - The Texas Western Miners defeated the heavily favored Kentucky Wildcats, 72-65, to win the NCAA Championship played in College Park, Maryland; making the contest especially noteworthy was that Texas Western became the first basketball team to start five Black players in a national title game as it faced an all-white Kentucky squad.
1967 - The Chicago Bulls won their 33rd game of the season. It was the most games won by an NBA expansion team.
1981 - The Buffalo Sabres set a record when they scored 9 goals in the second period in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Sabres won the game 14-4.
1990 - The first world ice hockey tournament for women was held in Ottawa.
1991 - Brett Hull, of the St. Louis Blues, became the third National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 80 goals in a season.
1991 - NFL owners voted to take the 1993 Super Bowl away from the city of Phoenix because Arizona didn't recognize Martin Luther King Day.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings set an NBA record with their 29th consecutive road loss.
1995 - Michael Jordan returned to the Chicago Bulls after nearly two years of retirement. He scored 19 points in the loss to the Indiana Pacers. The game, televised on NBC, was the most watched regular season game in NBA history with an estimated 35 million viewers.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets becomes the first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 other teams in a single season.
1853 - During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).
1860 - William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state and three-time Democratic presidential nominee, was born in Salem, Illinois.
1891 - Earl Warren, the 14th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Los Angeles.
1917 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour workday for railroads.
1918 - Congress approved daylight-saving time.
1920 - The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.
1931 - The Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
1942 - During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered men between the ages of 45 and 64, inclusive, to register for non-military duty.
1945 - During World War II, 724 people were killed when a Japanese dive bomber attacked the carrier USS Franklin off Japan (the ship was saved).
1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree" ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.
1953 - The Academy Awards were televised for the first time.
1962 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was released by Columbia Records.
1979 - The U.S. House of Representatives began televising its floor proceedings; the live feed was carried by C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network), which was making its debut.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex-and-money scandal involving a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn.
1988 - Two British soldiers were shot to death after they were dragged from a car and beaten by mourners attending an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire. (White’s departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court’s second female justice.)
1996 - Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
2001 - California officials declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling blackouts.
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, marking the beginning of the war with Iraq.
2011 - The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Moammar Gadhafi's forces from the air, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising.
2013 - Pope Francis officially began his ministry as the 266th pope, receiving the ring symbolizing the papacy and a wool stole exemplifying his role as shepherd of his 1.2-billion strong flock during a Mass at the Vatican.
2014 - Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the U.S. government, admitting that it had hidden information about defects that caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly, resulting in injuries and deaths.
2020 - President Donald Trump focused attention on a malaria drug, chloroquine, as a possible virus treatment; the FDA issued a statement saying that there were “no FDA-approved therapeutics” to treat COVID-19.
Birthdays
26 - Philip Bolden (actor)
26 - Julia Montes (actress)
30 - Arabella Chi (model)
32 - Craig Lamar Traylor (actor)
33 - Clayton Kershaw (baseball player)
34 - AJ Lee (professional wrestler)
38 - Evan Bourne (professional wrestler)
42 - Abby Brammell (actress)
43 - Virginia Williams (actress)
52 - Connor Trinneer (actor)
58 - Mary Scheer (actress/comedian)
66 - Bruce Willis (actor)
74 - Glenn Close (actress)
75 - Ruth Pointer (singer)
85 - Ursula Andress (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 19
1954 - Viewers saw the first televised prizefight shown in color when Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1955 - San Francisco defeats La Salle 77-63 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1956 - The Minneapolis Lakers beat the St. Louis Hawks 133-75 in Game 2 of the Western Divisional Finals. It was the largest margin of victory in NBA playoff history.
1960 - Ohio State defeats California 75-55 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1966 - The Texas Western Miners defeated the heavily favored Kentucky Wildcats, 72-65, to win the NCAA Championship played in College Park, Maryland; making the contest especially noteworthy was that Texas Western became the first basketball team to start five Black players in a national title game as it faced an all-white Kentucky squad.
1967 - The Chicago Bulls won their 33rd game of the season. It was the most games won by an NBA expansion team.
1981 - The Buffalo Sabres set a record when they scored 9 goals in the second period in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Sabres won the game 14-4.
1990 - The first world ice hockey tournament for women was held in Ottawa.
1991 - Brett Hull, of the St. Louis Blues, became the third National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 80 goals in a season.
1991 - NFL owners voted to take the 1993 Super Bowl away from the city of Phoenix because Arizona didn't recognize Martin Luther King Day.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings set an NBA record with their 29th consecutive road loss.
1995 - Michael Jordan returned to the Chicago Bulls after nearly two years of retirement. He scored 19 points in the loss to the Indiana Pacers. The game, televised on NBC, was the most watched regular season game in NBA history with an estimated 35 million viewers.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets becomes the first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 other teams in a single season.
