Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 15, 1961 | At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect. |
| March 12, 2019 | In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes. |
| March 7, 2009 | The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. |
| March 21, 1945 | World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes. |
| March 23, 1994 | A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. |
| March 18, 1962 | The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954. |
| March 11, 1649 | The Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. |
| March 18, 1915 | World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. |
| March 30, 1979 | Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
| March 31, 1521 | Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines. |
| March 23, 1931 | Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement. |
| March 3, 2005 | James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
| March 18, 1571 | Valletta is made the capital city of Malta. |
| March 3, 1585 | The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. |
| March 1, 2005 | In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional. |
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