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Events

• 1824 (202 years ago) American explorer Benjamin Morrell departs Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
• 1982 (44 years ago) Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• 1989 (37 years ago) The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
• 2004 (22 years ago) March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
• 2013 (13 years ago) A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
• 2016 (10 years ago) An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.

Births

• 1813 (213 years ago) David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (died 1873)
• 1821 (205 years ago) Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (died 1890)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
• 1905 (121 years ago) Albert Speer, German architect and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1981)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust (died 1962)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1943 (83 years ago) Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
• 1976 (50 years ago) Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager

Deaths

• 235 (1791 years ago) Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (born 208)
• 1721 (305 years ago) Pope Clement XI,
• 1884 (142 years ago) Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (born 1802)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (born 1875)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (born 1917)
• 2026 Chuck Norris, American martial artist and actor (born 1940)

All 309 events, births and deaths of March 19