History for March 19 - On-This-Day.com:
William Bradford 1590 (Baptism date) - Founder and Governor of Plymouth Colony, David Livingstone 1813 - Scottish explorer and medical missionary, Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821 - English geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier
Wyatt Earp 1848 - American gambler, sheriff and Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, AZ, he took part in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, William Jennings Bryan 1860 - American politician, Earl Warren 1891 - 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953-1969) and the 30th Governor of California.
1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.
1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
1945 - About 800 people were killed as Japanese kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.
1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.
1964 - Sean Connery began shooting his role in "Goldfinger."
1977 - The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving Jessica Hahn.
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