Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 15, 1564 | Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects. |
| March 19, 2002 | Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election. |
| March 1, 2014 | Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China. |
| March 16, 1984 | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. |
| March 7, 1993 | The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. |
| March 15, 1917 | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.[19] |
| March 22, 1945 | The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. |
| March 11, 1784 | The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end. |
| March 27, 1638 | The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people. |
| March 1, 2002 | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. |
| March 6, 1945 | World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. |
| March 5, 1933 | Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. |
| March 23, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. |
| March 19, 1945 | World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power. |
| March 4, 1990 | American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game. |
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