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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

This was 78th day of the year and 287 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 8 Nisan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 8th day of the 2nd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

March 19 Birthdays

William Jennings Bryan
1860–1925, American political leader, born in Salem, Illinois.

David Livingstone
missionary and explorer (1813)

Richard Francis Burton
explorer (1821)

Wyatt Earp
law officer (1848)

Earl Warren
jurist (1891)

Philip Roth
author (1933)

Glenn Close
actress (1947)

Bruce Willis
actor (1955)

March 2013

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17	18	19	20	21	22	23
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March 19 in History

1853

During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).

1920

The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.

1931

Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.

1953

The Academy Awards were first televised.

1996

Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.

2003

Operation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, the beginning of the war with Iraq (March 20 in Iraq).

2003

Mahmoud Abbas became prime minister of Palestine. He would later succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the PLO and president of the Palestinian Authority.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.