1848 - Wyatt Earp (American police officer) - died 1/13/1929 at age 80 [MORE]
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. [MORE]
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina. [MORE]
1918 - The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. [MORE]
1928 - Patrick McGoohan (Irish-American actor, director, and producer) - died 1/13/2009 at age 80 [MORE]
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened. [MORE]
1945 - 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. [MORE]
1962 - Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records. [MORE]
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. [MORE]
2011 - Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. [MORE]
2018 - The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct. [MORE]

Remembering March 19